Arles Festival 2019 : “How to reveal what can’t been shown,” by Emeric Lhuisset
For over fifteen years, Emeric Lhuisset has carried out analysis and reflection on conflict-ridden territories and broad geopolitical issues. For the fiftieth anniversary of the Rencontres d’Arles, he presents an original series entitled Quand les nuages parleront [If Clouds Could Talk]. We present this interview with the artist who sheds light on the disappearance of a place, a culture, and a people.
Arles Festival 2019: “How to find beauty in a disaster zone?” by Michel Poivert
A photoreporter for major magazines, Philippe Chancel spent a number years exploring sites that had fallen prey to world’s upheavals. This activity gave rise to Datazone, an immense and timely project which Chancel carried out in China and the United States, as well as Africa and Europe. On the 50th anniversary of the Rencontres d’Arles, the project will be presented to the public for the first time in its entirety.
Mathieu Pernot wins Henri Cartier-Bresson Award 2019
Every two years, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation awards the HCB Prize, to assist the creation of a photographic project and rewards, at the same time, the career of an accomplished documentary photographer.
Arles Festival 2019 : “Bodies are one way to say ‘I’ ” by Sonia Voss
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Festival Rencontres d’Arles as well as the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This provides a good opportunity to discover East German photography. An exhibition at the Festival explores the 1980s through the lens of photographers from the former DDR. The exhibition’s curator, Sonia Voss, granted us an interview.
Usimages in Creil: A festival of industrial photography
By extending an invitation to photographers who have celebrated factories through images, the city of Oise is betting on a one-of-a-kind event. We take a peek at some must-see venues in this third edition.
Barbara Probst: multiple image(s) / image multiple(s)
Thanks to a special device, Barbara Probst creates mosaics from photographs of a single moment captured using multiple cameras. Her thought-provoking work is now on display at the BAL in Paris.
A bevy of women photographers
The Galerie Miranda in Paris has conjured up an exciting gathering of women photographers, offering a look at color in the history of photography. The exhibition is iridescent with vernal glances.
Shane Lynam: An archeology of modern public space
The series Fifty High Seasons by the Irish photographer Shane Lynam is featured at the Bertrand Grimont Gallery in Paris. The photographs, made along the Languedoc-Roussillon coast, between Montpellier and Perpignan, are an exquisite and earnest testament to the French social and architectural history of large resort areas.
Photographing Versailles
The Palace of Versailles has invited five renowned photographers to fill its spaces. Each artist unfolds a different vision of the celebrated estate of the Sun King.
A bird, infinitely
Four photographers capture winged creatures of all stripes in a new book series published by Éditions Xavier Barral. The series offers an insight into the delicate existence of living beings around us.
Thomas Demand: The margins of history
For twenty-eight years, the German photographer Thomas Demand has been reproducing press photographs on paper and proposing a new reading. We decipher for you his monograph “Complete Papers” recently published by MACK.
How to Create Portraits in Natural Light
In photography the portrait is difficult to avoid. Family snapshots are only a step away from fine art and fashion photography, and one need only to learn a few simple techniques and tricks of the trade to enhance the quality of the image. Natural light, available to anyone, will be our tool in this guide on Natural Light Portrait Photography. We will address the issues of light, composition, setting, choice of subject, etc., in an effort to create appealing portraits.
Arles Festival 2019 : “Deconstructing stereotypes” by Valérie Belin
To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the Rencontres d’Arles has invited the artist Valérie Belin. She presents a series of eight photographs entitled Painted Ladies. Made in 2017, it is being exhibited for the first time in its entirety. A creator of images, Valérie Belin brings keen and profound reflection to the photographic medium and its offshoots. She agreed to grant us an interview a few days before the Festival d’Arles.
Caminantes, by Felipe Jacome. Another approach to address the Venezuelan crisis
Felipe Jacome comes from a documentary background. Yet, he often turns to alternative processes – he has done cyanotypes; experimented with vegetal pigments (chlorophyll) to print portraits of Amazonian indigenous tribes onto giant leaves of the jungle; and, recently, transferred his photographs of Venezuelan migrants onto the defunct Bolivar currency by using a silver gelatin process.
snap+share: A short history of image transmission
Until August 4, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco is presenting an exhibition that revisits the way photography has been shared since its invention to the present day. It highlights a little-known facet of one of the most popular mediums of the twenty-first century.
Benjamin Hoffman’s Cape Town: scars and a zest for life
In Farewell Cape Town, a book published by Éditions Juillet, the photographer Benjamin Hoffman and the writer Sophie Bouillon paint a touching portrait of South Africa’s Mother City. Using black-and-white photography, the book presents a panoramic chiaroscuro of a scarred, yet vibrant metropolis.
Young New York by Ethan James Green
In his latest book, Young New York, published by Aperture, the photographer Ethan James Green brings together his New York photographs. These calm, poetic images are anything but Big Apple clichés.
Shunk & Kender: major witnesses of postwar avant-garde movements
Through August 5, the Centre Pompidou presents the first retrospective devoted to the photographers of postwar avant-garde movements, Harry Shunk (1924–2006) and János Kender (1937–2009). Their work is a testimony to a period in art history as much as to a perceptive and innovative documentary approach.
Geraldine Lay: “I heed the light”
In her series North End, the photographer Géraldine Lay captures scenes of everyday life in in the great cities of Northern Britain: Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool… She takes her camera wherever astonishing light strikes the street and the passersby. Lay’s work can be viewed at the Leica Gallery in Paris and in an eponymous publication released by Actes Sud. We talk to the photographer, who enjoys urban strolls in search of a scene, an attitude, a particular composition…
Guy Tillim’s Africa
The second exhibition held at the new location of the Fondation Henri-Cartier Bresson features the work of the South-African photographer Guy Tillim, the winner of the 2017 HCB Award. More than a tour of African capitals, Museum of the Revolution is a challenge to contemporary history.
Henri Foucault: photographer-sculptor, and vice versa
From April 4 to May 18, the Bigaignon Gallery devotes an exhibition to the work of Henri Foucault. Entitled “Le corps, infiniment” [Bodies, infinitely], it delves into the artist’s oeuvre with emphasis on bodies and body representation at the boundary between photography and sculpture.
Ruth van Beek, or a theatre of archival images
Until May 3, the NContemporary Gallery in Milan features the multitalented Ruth van Beek. The exhibition, entitled How To Do the Flowers, Act II—Rehearsal I,” is designed as an extension of the artist’s oeuvre. It offers a survey of this somewhat Dadaist body of work that straddles photography, painting, and collage.
Encore: Reenactment in Contemporary Photography
How can photography be an instrument of re-staging? This is one of the questions tackled by the exhibition Encore: Reenactment in Contemporary Photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, on view until June 9.
ImageSingulières in Sète: A focus on documentary photography
The eleventh edition of the Photography Festival in Sète, held every year at the end of May, showcases a series of documentary projects. We present a panorama of participating artists.
Shoji Ueda: Sand and a bowler hat
The work of Shoji Ueda is on view at Galerie &co119 in Paris: this is an excellent opportunity to (re)discover the Japanese photographer’s oeuvre consisting of quirky, poetic scenes.
André Kertész’s windows
Until May 4, the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York showcases the series Window Views by one of photography’s pioneers, André Kertész. From the time he moved to the United States in 1952 until his death in 1985, the Hungarian photographer created contemplative images by photographing the view from his twelfth-floor apartment window in Washington Square.
Scheltens & Abbenes’ poetic, pin-point compositions
The first major exhibition devoted to the Dutch artist duo Scheltens & Abbenes is on view at FOAM until June 5. Entitled Zeen, the retrospective covers their 18-year-long collaboration and brings together both commissioned work and personal projects, which reveal their obsession with composition and forms.
Wim Wenders by Wim Wenders
From April 18 to 22, a visual installation designed by the filmmaker Wim Wenders will occupy the Nave of the Grand Palais. Entitled (E)motion, the installation offers a singular retrospective of Wim Wenders’s films. The exhibition curator, Jérôme Neutres, who came up with the idea, answers our questions.
Édouard Boubat: The song of the women
The Agathe Gaillard Gallery in Paris surveys Édouard Boubat’s work with a focus on the theme of romanticism. The show is an invitation to a gingerly walk before female models, whose grace is captured in refined portraits.
Marie Clerel: Etching the sky
The artist has invented a method of capturing variations in sunlight and moonlight. Her sensory work uses the photographic medium in its most primitive form in order to reveal luminous traces. Marie Clerel’s work is currently on view at Galerie Binome in Paris.
Winners of the Picto Fashion Photography Award 2019
On April 2, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie hosted the 2019 Picto Young Fashion Photography Award ceremony. Since 1998, the Picto photo lab has held the Picto Fashion Photography Awards, a contest which recognizes “an upcoming young fashion photographer” under 35.
Elsa Leydier: A warning sign from Brazil
For the artist Elsa Leydier, it’s not about deciding if images are more potent than words, but rather about showing the power of the two together. Her latest series, #elenão, was created during the presidential elections in Brazil won by Jair Bolsonaro.
Frida Kahlo in Brooklyn
In addition to being an artist, Frida Kahlo is an icon. Eclipsed by her husband Diego Riviera while he was alive, Frida Kahlo is today a nearly universal pop icon, as evidenced by her 850,000 posthumous followers on Instagram.
Earthbound time by Sophie Ristelhueber
Two Parisian exhibitions feature the artist’s latest work: a vein-like web spreading across the ground at the Jérôme Poggi Gallery and the intimacy of origins at the Catherine Putman Gallery.
FOAM’s photographers to watch
For a third consecutive year, FOAM (or Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam) showcases emerging talents at the Red Hook Labs Gallery in Brooklyn.
In Vichy, a thousand variations on the portrait
The Portrait(s) Vichy Photography Festival is launching its 7th edition this summer: a panoply of faces captured by a bevy of artists. We bring you a sneak preview of their work.
Miles Aldridge’s aggressively witty mises-en-scène
Until May 4, the Christophe Guye Gallery (Zürich) is featuring the work of the British photographer Miles Aldridge. Entitled Screenprints, Polaroids and Drawings, it spotlights his work in the medium of silkscreen printing, some preparatory works, as well as a selection of his best-known pieces.
From photography to poetry at the gallery Le Réverbère
Until April 20, the Lyon gallery Le Réverbère brings together the works of four photographers who share similar concerns. Serge Clément, Baudoin Lotin, Julien Magre, and Bernard Plossu are all tireless gold seekers, obsessed by the Abstract poetry of the real.
La Gacilly Photo Festival: Eastward ho!
Every summer, La Gacilly Photo Festival takes over a small Breton town. For its 16th edition, the festival focuses on Eastern European and Russian photography. Here we provide a sneak peek at some of the works featured among the 26 exhibitions.
Yan Morvan: The many faces of a war
In his series on Lebanon in the 1980s, the photojournalist Yan Morvan sheds light on the various actors and sites involved in the conflict. His works can be viewed at Galerie Folia in Paris as well as in a book published by Photosynthèses (Liban, 2018, 472 pages).
50 Years with the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles: Many happy returns!
Since 1970, the Festival has become a mainstay in the world of photography. Bringing together over 140,000 visitors last year, the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles is a must-see international cultural event. We have handpicked a selection of works featured in this anniversary edition of the festival.
France according to Henri Cartier-Bresson
The master’s view of his native country is the theme of an exhibition currently on display at the Foundation bearing his name. The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris presents a moving tribute to the artist who theorized “the decisive moment” in photography.
Anne Collier: Marketing tears
The artist’s conceptual photographs challenge the place of women in Western societies and their exploitation in commercial images. An exhibition featuring Anne Collier’s work is on view at the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.
Thomas Jorion: “I’m a photographic wanderer”
The photographer presents images of urban decay at the Esther Woerdehoff Gallery in Paris. He takes us on a stroll through abandoned landscapes where nature is reclaiming its rights while crumbling mansions wither like fragile flowers. Thomas Jorion talks to us about his photography.
Diane Arbus’s freak carnival
The work of this iconic photographer is now on display at the Hayward Gallery in London, with over a hundred early images, for the most part printed by the artist.
