Sergueï Bubka: An Ukrainian Icon
Sergey Bubka is the most famous Ukrainian champion in history. In this period of support to his country, Jean-Denis Walter, former editor-in-chief of French sports newspaper L’Equipe Magazine tells the story this picture, made by the photographer Gérard Rancinan.
Humanitarians and Photojournalists: a Shared Struggle
They are the witnesses to the suffering on Earth. To mark its 50-year anniversary, the world-renowned NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has joined forces with the Magnum photo agency to bring their photographic material on global crises past and present it into one collection. Witnesses: 50 Years of Humanity offers an extensive online exhibition.
How Photographers Can Learn to Conduct Interviews
How to prepare, pose questions, be present. If you missed it, read the first part of this Tips series here.
Robin Friend and Igor Tereshkov: Two Ways of Looking at a Disfigured Earth
The ImageSingulières center of photography in Sète (France) presents the work of two photographers with an ecological message. “Bastard CountrySide” by Robin Friend and “Oil and Moss” by Igor Tereshkov are on view until March 6, 2022.
How Women Changed Street Photography
A new exhibit showcases the development of street photography across the 20th century, and how women came to define it.
The Daily Life of Ambulance Drivers in 1990s Ukraine
Pharmakon / Ambulance 1994–1995 offers a gritty look at ambulance drivers’ sordid everyday life in Luhansk, Ukraine.
Algeria in Motion by Bruno Boudjelal
The exhibition « Détours-Retour : Les voyages en Algérie 1993-2013 », on view in France, looks at two decades of Bruno Boudjelal’s Algeria.
How a Nightclub Slide Show Laid the Foundation for the First Hip Hop Film
Charlie Ahearn revisits the humble beginnings of “Wild Style” just in time for the film’s fortieth anniversary.
Kirsty Mackay : the Politics of Scottish Decline
The picture shows a baby sleeping in a wooden cardboard box. The box is a Scottish Baby Box, introduced by the Scottish government in 2017 to tackle infant poverty rates and is designed to give each child born in Scotland “the best start in life”. It’s a picture that at least shows love, caring, and fortitude in the most difficult of circumstances. A picture that sums up the health, wealth, and housing histories that affect Scotland’s biggest city, Glasgow.
All About Photography in One Comic Book
The photographer and illustrator Vincent Burgeon presents a history of photography in his debut comic book entitled Photographix.
Nobuyoshi Araki: The Experience of a Lifetime
The 101 photographs that make up Nobuyoshi Araki’s Shi Nikki, or the Private Diary only he knows how to unlock, are featured for the first time in their entirety at the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection in Paris. This is a great introduction to the unclassifiable work of the Japanese photographer who puts the “I” in the foreground.
Hollywood’s Golden Age, by Phil Stern and Bob Willoughby
The photographs of two of Hollywood’s greatest chroniclers are currently on display at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles: a great opportunity to travel back in time to the days of the star system, an era made of glamour, dreams and ideals.
Steve Schapiro, Chronicler of 20th Century America, Dies At 87
Steve Schapiro, whose prize-winning photographs defined 20th century American life, died peacefully in his Chicago home on Saturday, January 15, from pancreatic cancer. He was 87.
Self-Immolation: A Desperate Protest Against the Patriarchy
In “Roulah,” Iranian photographer Shaghayegh Moradiannejad uncovers a harrowing practice of suicide among Kurdish women across the Middle East.
How Black Culture Made Preppy Style Subversive and Cool
A new book explores how Black America revolutionized fashion during the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
Mediterranean Period Panoramic Prints
As part of the exhibition “The Orient In Big,” the Roger-Viollet gallery is exhibiting 50 original panoramic prints dating from the turn of the last century.
The Tumultuous Relationship Between Duane Michals and his Father
In this text full of poetry and memories, the American photographer Duane Michals reveals some of his family secrets.
“Écrits sur l’image”: Convergence of Writing and Photography
The first collection of texts on photography by Alain Bergala (former editor-in-chief of Cahiers du Cinéma and still image connoisseur), entitled Écrits sur l’image [Writings on the Image], is published in the TXT collection edited by Agnès Sire (director of the Cartier-Bresson Foundation) at Éditions Xavier Barral. On the occasion of its release, Blind looks back at five books from the historic collection “Écrit sur l’image” [“Written on/about the Image”] founded in 1981. The books, which included publications by Raymond Depardon, Claude Nori, Patrick Zachmann, Fouad Elkoury, Xavier Lambours, and a début by Sophie Calle, followed the simple principle of bringing together texts and images.
How Mid-Century Album Art Revolutionized American Pop Culture
A new book explores the extraordinary impact of global dance music in post-war America.
Either a Kolbar or a Pomegranate Picker: The Fate of Iranian Kurds
Photographer Antoine Béguier created a photographic series in Iranian Kurdistan portraying smugglers and pomegranate pickers.
Stephen Gill’s “Coming Up for Air”: Camera, Process, Action
The Stephen Gill exhibition, “Coming Up for Air”, is arranged over 6 rooms on two floors of Bristol’s Arnolfini Arts Building. Enter the museum and you enter a semi-brutal Grey Cube of an art space. Barbican-lite if you like.
Playing in the Street with The Children of Mea Shearim
In the middle of one of the world’s most technologically advanced countries lives a community that defies time and place. Inhabitants of Mea Shearim resist 21st century’s human norms. This isolated community has invented its own rules. I found myself documenting “old” children and “young” adults, as if adults were trapped in the bodies of children. As an outsider, as a woman, as a photographer, I could not hide nor blend in with this surrounding. I was afraid of getting noticed and the camera was my only connection with the world outside. I started questioning what “normal” was and who should bear that word.
Debmalya Roy Choudhuri: Photography as a Return to Life
Indian photographer Debmalya Roy Choudhuri’s series “Fragments of The Dying Man” exorcises the misfortunes of his existence and offers us an intimate and poetic photographic collection.
Pierre Cardin by his Photographer of 22 Years, Claude Iverné
The photographer Claude Iverné, winner of the 2015 Henri Cartier-Bresson Prize, was a fashion photographer before dedicating part of his life to a documentary exploration of Sudan. Designer Pierre Cardin, who died on December 29, 2020, was his “first boss” in 1985.
How Sunil Gupta Uses Photography as a Tool of Liberation
In his first major career retrospective and accompanying book. Sunll Gupta explores the question, “What does it mean to be a gay Indian man?”
Patrick Zachmann: Bringing Memory to Light
The exhibition “Journeys in Memory” at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris takes a look at the work of photographer Patrick Zachmann.
Sabine Weiss, Figure of Humanist Photography, Dies at 97
Parisian and New York street scenes, world events coverage, press and fashion photos, advertisements, portraits of artists: hardly a discipline seems to have eluded Sabine Weiss’s benevolent lens. The last representative of French humanist photography, whose work was exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles last summer, died today at the age of 97. Blind republishes the profile that was dedicated to her on this occasion.
The Revolutionary Role of 90s Fashion Photography, Curated by Claudia Schiffer
The famed supermodel brings together 150 of the most iconic images of the era in a new book and exhibition.
Of Steam and Coal
The Italian photographer Pietro Pietromarchi has traveled the world — from Eritrea to Sri Lanka, to the Carpathians, Patagonia, and Zimbabwe, and to the ends of the Gobi Desert — to capture the last breaths of a beast on the verge of extinction: steam engines.
Blue Sky, Sunshine, White Sand by the Mile
“I wasn’t trying to be like the guy who photographed my Bar Mitzvah, someone who comes in to please everyone. I wish it was Diane Arbus who took the pictures of my Bar Mitzvah,” says Jewish-American photographer Godlis, remembering the 1974 trip to Florida that changed his life — pictures from which have just been published in the new book Godlis: Miami.
Tom Wood: Irish Work
More than a series of landscapes, Tom Wood’s latest book, Irish Work, is an inner journey that delves deep into his native country.
Portraying the American People
In August 2015, after 10 years of living in the United States, I received an email from my immigration attorney asking me if I was ready to file for American citizenship. I soon realized I didn’t know if I was.
Eikoh Hosoe and His Secret Passageways
A monograph edited by Yasufumi Nakamori shows how Eikoh Hosoe’s teaching and photographs imposed an offbeat vision of the Japanese archipelago.
Bernie Sanders: An Influencer to Keep an Eye On
“Within hours he had been superimposed onto thousands of iconic images, spliced into films, and was trending everywhere things can trend,” noted Naomi Klein in an Intercept article on the “mittenology” of Bernie Sanders’s viral meme. A new book from the Éditions Adespotes illustrates the phenomenon.
Doris Derby and the Civil Rights Movement
Between 1963 and 1972, Derby documented major figures in the Civil Rights Movement, everyday events that kept the Movement going, and the lives of ordinary people living in the segregated South and in doing so created a first-hand account of a pivotal time in U.S. history.
Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Poignant Images of the Horrors of History
In The Forgotten, Rosalind Fox Solomon bears witness to the human cost of war, conflict, and trauma.
Honoring the Indigenous Peoples Around the World
Dana Gluckstein uses photography to shift consciousness in the ongoing fight for human rights worldwide.
10 Photobook Gift Ideas for Christmas
Blind presents a selection of the best photobooks of the year: some gift ideas for your loved ones.
Photographing the Russian Occupation of Georgia
Robakidze’s project “Creeping Borders” looks at the Russian presence in Georgia, and the effects of the installation of artificial barriers along the occupation line on the lives of both individuals and whole communities.
Robert Nickelsberg’s Unpublished Images of the Civil War in El Salvador
In a forthcoming book, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg revisits his archive of El Salvador’s civil war to shed new light on the conflict and its consequences.
Igor Mukhin: From the USSR to Russia
Quite unknown outside of his country, Igor Mukhin takes us on a tour of his native Moscow, from the 1980s to the present. This photographic journey, crisscrossing the city and traveling through history, can be savored in an exhibition or in the book, Generations: From the USSR to the New Russia.
Sunkissed Photos of Brazil’s Legendary Beach
After taking up photography at age 60, Sandra Cattaneo Adorno returns to her childhood playground to create a love letter to her native Brazil.
Documenting the Freedom of Youth in New York
Photographer Marie Tomanova’s portraiture is the perfect argument against the age-old cliché that “youth is wasted on the young.” Her latest photo book, New York, New York, provides the reader with slices of the ethereal essence that defines the capital-C City, infused with the attractively messy characters within it. Alongside a powerful intro by art historian Thomas Beachdel, Tomanova personifies sex and play through her strikingly colorful subjects — sharing a vision that could entice any onlooker to relocate to any of the five boroughs. New York, New York launched in autumn in New York, followed by a solo exhibition at C24 Gallery in Chelsea. To get a sense of her approach and creative evolution, Blind sat down with Tomanova to hear more.
Syrian Lives
For his project titled Talashi, Alexis Cordesse collected personal photographs taken by men and women who fled war-torn Syria.
The Photographers Disrupting New York’s 1980s Fashion Scene
Guzman unearths rarely seen photographs made for the Village Voice that capture the innovative, anti-fashion ethos of the times.
