Living Through New York’s Dance Mania
New York City is among the best places in the world to party. As its nightlife industry is plagued by a pandemic, photographer Gaia Squarci reflects on the alternative ways New Yorkers found to still explore the freedom that only dance can offer.
Jamie Hawkesworth in His Kingdom
The British photographer Jamie Hawkesworth refines his approach to portraiture in The British Isles, published by Mack.
Hiro, Celebrated Fashion Photographer, Dies at 90
Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, the Japanese-born American photographer known as Hiro died August 15, 2021, at the age of 90 in his country home in Erwinna, Pennsylvania. Best known for his fashion and still life work, Hiro’s surreal vision of glamour established him among giants of the industry including his mentor Richard Avedon. “Hiro is no ordinary […]
Pieter Hugo: The World Through the Eyes of Others
Bringing together a hundred portraits, the exhibition “Être présent” (Be present), featured at the Rencontres d’Arles, covers some fifteen years of Pieter Hugo’s work involving a traditional practice that subtly manipulates its codes.
Edward Grazda: A Diary of Afghanistan Before the United States Came to Call
For more than 20 years, from the start of the Soviet-Afghan War through the rise of the Taliban and their control of the country, Edward Grazda photographed Afghanistan. The photographs he made show an Afghanistan going through great changes, and mirror what is going on in the country today.
Rediscovered Stories From the Zambian Fine Art Studios
In 2018, photographer Sana Ginwalla visited Fine Art Studios in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, to buy some film camera batteries. In the studio, she found cupboards full of neglected prints, slides and negatives from the time the studio was run by Ratubhai Somabhai Patel and Hirabhai Lalbhai Patel. “The works of renowned photographers like […]
The City in All its Facets
The latest book published by Louis Vuitton, Villes du monde [Cities on Earth], takes readers on a trip around the world through 225 photographs of 30 different cities.
Morteza Niknahad: Healing His Mother With Photography
Iranian photographer Morteza Niknahad uses a combination of family photos and staged tableaux to produce a touching series centered on his sick mother.
Inside the Cambodian Diaspora in America
Starting in the early 1990s, photographer Stuart Isett documented the Cambodian Refugees who made Chicago home.
Lebohang Kganye’s Visually Inventive Investigation of History and Memory
With “Staging Memories” the South African artist explores the intersection between personal experience and social realities.
Jeanette Spicer on the Lesbian Gaze
The photographer’s latest series “What It Means to Be Here” explores societal constructs like heteronormativity, gender performance, and perceptions of the nude form through intimate captures.
Touring the Mediterranean Coast After a Pandemic
For an Italian photographer and her boyfriend, the Italian and French seashores formed the backbone of a stunning summer road trip.
Masayoshi Sukita, the Mastermind Behind David Bowie’s Iconic Portraits
A long-overdue retrospective monograph looks at the impressive career of Masayoshi Sukita, the artist bridging East and West.
Edward Burtynsky: Tales of Water
Edward Burtynsky, whose work over the past thirty years has been focused on ecology, combines aesthetic and documentary approaches. The exhibition at the Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier, France showcasing some fifty images on the theme of water, is also an opportunity to explore the notion of commitment.
Six Pictures: Strolling Through Paris with Henri Cartier-Bresson
A new book (and exhibition) looks at the master photographer’s relationship to Paris—the city he loved, left, and returned to again and again.
Barkley L. Hendricks’ Little Known Photography
A captivating new book celebrates the role photography played in the life and work of Barkley L. Hendricks, who made pioneering contributions to Black portraiture and conceptualism.
The Photographic Archives of a Dictator
A look back at the regime of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada via the photographers he hired while in power.
Paul Graham: The World the Way It Is
Paul Graham’s Beyond Caring, which, without any dramatic effect, conveys the loneliness and disarray of the unemployed in Margaret Thatcher’s England, is reissued by MACK.
Tomasz Laczny and the Family Secret
In Erna Helena Ania, Tomasz Laczny revisits the story of his German grandmother who adopted Polish nationality.
Works come alive at the Rencontres d’Arles
Reflecting key social issues, the Rencontres d’Arles focuses this year on themes of identity. However, it would be unfair to reduce this 2021 edition to questions of ethnicity or issues revolving around the feminine, the masculine, or gender. A few environment-oriented projects stand out for their originality and creative approaches — a significant departure from […]
Africa by Africa
Since 1991, the former quarterly publication and now publishing house Revue Noire have made some wonderful finds in the field of photography, which are currently on view in Toulouse, in an exhibition bringing together 300 images by 28 photographers from all over Africa and its diaspora.
Islands of Milk and Honey, Bingo, Blood, and Protest
At Bristol Photo Festival, the exhibition entitled “Island Life” is a collection of photographs by some of Britain’s great post-war photographers. Does it make sense? Does it have to?
Feeling Your Way: A Visual Conversation Between Carrie Mae Weems and Diane Arbus
A new exhibition and book explore the work of two American artists who redefined photography.
Exploring the Relationship Between Art and Activism in the Work of Trans Photographers
“Radical Tenderness”, a new online exhibition, explores the ways in which making art is a form of survival and care.
Meryl Meisler’s Two Loves
In New York, ClampArt’s latest exhibition showcases the photographer’s love affair with disco and Bushwick.
Exploring Ways for Escape With Magnum’s Print Sale
Entitled « Way for Escape”, a collection of more than ninety prints by Magnum photographers is available for $100, until Sunday, July 18.
When Rollercoasters and Modern Suburbia Collide
A photographer traveled across Pennsylvania to photograph towns that still house amusement parks, with the towering structures overshadowing many suburban homes.
Revisiting the Golden Age of Hip Hop
T. Eric Monroe unearths a treasure trove of 1990s icons including The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Erykah Badu, and the Fugees.
The FSA: The Unconscious of Roy Stryker
Photographer Jean-Christian Bourcart has assembled a selection of photographs discarded by the Farm Security Administration, the US agency created to aid poor farmers during the Great Depression. In 1937, the FSA hired several photographers — including Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans — to document the rural conditions. Bourcart’s work, available in NFT format, questions the act of curating images.
Clarisse Hahn’s Princes
Clarisse Hahn photographed men from her Paris neighborhood over a three-year period in a series titled “Princes of the Street.”
Under the Sun of Massao Mascaro
Over the course of seven trips (Ceuta, Naples, Athens, Palermo, Istanbul, Tunis and Lampedusa) and numerous encounters along the way, Massao Mascaro paints a black and white portrait of the Mediterranean rim with his series “Sub Sole.”
Arles Books 2021 Competition: Our Top 10
During the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles four book prizes are awarded, three of which by the Rencontres team: the Author Book Award, the Historical Book Award, and the Photo Text Award. The fourth, Luma Foundation’s famous Dummy Book Award, recognizes an original, unpublished artist’s book.
Free Men From Masculinity
Originally planned for the 2020 Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, the exhibition entitled “Masculinities: Liberation through Photography”, focused on social gender constructs, takes over La Mécanique Générale.
Sudan: When Utopia Becomes Reality
The exhibition “Thawra! ثورة Revolution! Sudan: The History of an Uprising,” featured at the Rencontres d’Arles 2021, revisits the revolt, which broke out in Khartoum in late 2018 and led to the fall of the dictator Omar al-Bashir, as seen through the eyes of eight Sudanese photographers and the film director Hind Meddeb.
Sabine Weiss: A Century of Photography
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. Nearing 100, this last representative of French humanist photography, whose work is currently on view at Rencontres d’Arles festival, France, lifts the curtain on some of her darkroom secrets and shares her insights into photography today.
Stéphan Gladieu: Portraits Under Control in North Korea
The French photographer treats audiences at the Rencontres d’Arles to a rare close look at the daily life in North Korea in his captivating series, “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Portraits”, featured in an open-air exhibition.
Crazy About Arles
When did we stop loving photography? Never! That impactful year has left behind only desires: the desire to meet again, to hug each other, to kiss, to patch up the past. Photography is a wonderful, and safe, “carrier”: only that it’s there to infect us with emotions; to share with those who love it, those […]
The Orient Express, a Railway Legend
Some 130 years after its first voyage, the Orient Express is still a source of fascination. Archival images revealed in the exhibition “Orient Express & Cie” at the Rencontres d’Arles festival, immerse us in the atmosphere of these incredible journeys reserved for a clientele in search of adventure and exoticism.
10 Exhibitions to See at the 2021 Rencontres d’Arles Festival
The 2021 edition of the prestigious annual photography event, which opens today, features thirty-five exhibitions. Blind highlights a few of the ones you won’t want to miss if you’re attending the festival.
Diana Markosian’s Spellbinding Portrait of a Family, Drama, and Love
In “Santa Barbara,” Diana Markosian explores her mother’s life-changing decision to move to Southern California after the collapse of the U.S.S.R.
Abbas Kiarostami, the Photographer
Spotlighting the importance of photography in his work, Centre Pompidou in Paris devotes a vast retrospective to Abbas Kiarostami, a major figure in the new wave of Iranian cinema.
Ernst A. Heiniger: A Pioneer of Swiss Photography
An avant-garde photographer and a documentary filmmaker at Walt Disney’s, Ernst A. Heiniger has fallen into obscurity. Mounting a major retrospective, the Swiss Photo Foundation in Winterthur is paying tribute to the artist.
My Two Dads: Intimate Portraits of Gay Fatherhood in America
In a new book, Bart Heynen creates a tender portrait of fatherhood liberated from the strictures of cisheteronormative archetypes.
Between Reality and Fiction, Crossed Existences at the Hangar in Brussels
The Hangar, Brussels’ center for photography, presents the work of French artist Véronique Ellena and eight Belgian photographers around the theme “Look At My Story.” There is often but a thin line between fiction and reality, as we will see below.
Paris Rises
Durev Gallery surveys 75 years of photography in Paris in the exhibition “La ville s’éveille” [The City Rises].
