MARIA LAX, BEYOND REALITY
The London-based Finnish photographer transports us into her timeless visual narratives, halfway between reality, fiction and the supernatural. “The truth lies elsewhere,” some might say. And that’s no understatement. Maria Lax is interested in identity, beliefs and modern folklore as she explores parallel worlds. Her series “Some Kind of Heavenly Fire”, which became her first […]
IMAGENATION AT THE PALAIS JOSEPH : THE NOT-TO-BE-MISSED PHOTOGRAPHIC EVENT
Launched in 2013 by Martin Vegas, ImageNation aims to highlight photographic works of the contemporary new wave. The art and photography festival will take place at the Palais Joseph on 10, 11 and 12 November 2023 in the City of Light: Paris. This year, the exhibition will be held in conjunction with Paris photo. ImageNation […]
KIKI XUE, PORTRAITIST OF MAGNIFICENCE
In the space of just a few years, this Paris-based Chinese photographer has become a driving force in the fashion world, producing portraits of rare pictorial beauty that reflect his cultural roots. Kiki Xue is one of the emerging names on the photography scene. A native of Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, he […]
DAVID BAILEY, SYMBOL OF SWINGING LONDON
For its new exhibition, the Fahey/Klein gallery in Los Angeles is honouring this legendary photographer and portraitist of the swinging sixties, who also inspired the character in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up”. Tight framing, white backgrounds and minimal posing – these are the key words that characterise the style of David Bailey (1938-). This self-taught artist, who […]
INCADAQUÉS PHOTO FESTIVAL , PHOTOGRAPHIC EMOTIONS
The international photography festival returns for its seventh instalment. Famous for having been frequented by the great names of 20th-century art, from Salvador Dali to Marcel Duchamps and Richard Hamilton, the village of Cadaqués is reviving its artistic aura for the time of InCadaqués Photo Festival. This seventh edition will feature 25 exhibitions by 35 […]
GHOSTLY POETRY BY ELOÏSE LABARBE-LAFON
FRANCE – PARIS Born in Toulouse 28 years ago, photographer and visual artist Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon, now based in Paris, has been interested in photography since her early teens, with a particular focus on silver-based techniques. While practising her art, the young creative woman studied art history and cinema. These two worlds led her to film […]
MIKE KELLEY
ECTOPLASM PHOTOGRAPH 13 (1978-2009) FOCUS France-Paris What is this sprawling face emerging from the darkness photographed by Mike Kelley in a series of fifteen chromogenic prints entitled “Ectoplasm Photograph”? A face in trance, exuding a cottony substance – ectoplasmic – from its orifices; that of the artist himself, transformed into a spiritual medium. Inspired by […]
THE SENSITIVE AND RADIANT PORTRAITS OF ALICE SPRINGS
Allemagne – Berlin The Museum für Fotografie in Berlin celebrates the centenary of the birth of June Newton, also known as Alice Springs, through a retrospective featuring two hundred photographs, many of which have never been shown before. She has crafted intimate, radiant, and sensitive portraits that have made her a renowned photographer. June Newton […]
DJENEBA ADUAYOM: BEING AND EMOTIONAL GESTURE
UNITED STATES – LOS ANGELES The visual imagery of this artist photographer, based in California, transports us into her inner and imaginary worlds, oscillating between emotion and colour, movement and performance. “Creation must be expensive and limitless, versatile and endless, all at once,” boldly states Djeneba Aduayom on Büro, an artistic agency founded by […]
CASPER SEJERSEN: BODY AND SOUL
Danemark – Copenhague His photographic work weaves a visually captivating and unsettling narrative around art and beauty, the psychology of sensuality, and human fragility. He has portrayed Harry Styles, Kate Moss, Tilda Swinton, Gaspard Ulliel, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cate Blanchett, and many more. He has created editorial campaigns for Dazed, Purple, Vogue, AnOther, Vanity […]
THE 54TH RENCONTRES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
ACUMEN JOURNEY France – Arles This latest edition of the Rencontres de la photographie offered us a rich and eclectic selection of images in response to the powerful theme of “A State of Consciousness”. As Christoph Wiesner, director of the Rencontres d’Arles, points out, the photographers, artists, and curators are giving us an extremely acute […]
YANNIS DAVY
OR THE EXPLOSION OF COLOUR Afrique – Gabon The Gabonese photographer explores the diversity of the black continent and its diaspora in images bathed in colour, the battle to challenge the colonial stereotypes conveyed by the West. Yannis Davy Guibinga is one of a new generation of rising talents on the African art scene who […]
THE BRIDGE GALLERY RECONCILES PHOTOGRAPHY AND BLOCKCHAIN
United States – New York The Bridge Gallery is a new art space dedicated to photographers from Africa and its diaspora, investing in blockchain and NFT for collectors. Five established and emerging artists already make up the Bridge Gallery, founded in March 2022, in this desire to value, inspire, and connect with a new generation […]
WERONIKA GESICKA, STUDY ON COLLECTIVE MEMORY
Poland – Warsaw Scientific theories and pseudo-scientists, mnemonic devices or various disorders that concern her, everything here becomes a field of experimentation for the Polish photographer. This former graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Photography in Warsaw explores memory and its mechanisms. In her photographic work, notably her series “Traces,” […]
ELINA BROTHERUS
Turkey – Istanbul Like “Apparitions” in the landscape, the silhouettes of Elina Brotherus (1972) depict man’s solitude in the face of the vastness of nature – or sometimes of an interior – with great modernity and astonishing acuity. Like the man behind us leading our gaze to the edge of infinity in the sublime landscapes […]
THE ULTRA-TERRESTRIAL WORLDS OF SHAE DETAR
United States The American artist mixes photography and painting in her works that transport us to an alternative world, both hypnotic and surreal, colorful and textured. Shae Detar revives the power of hand-painted photography. In the history of the medium, one of the earliest methods of dealing with color was to paint over it, thus […]
HARRY GRUYAERT AN OBSESSION WITH COLOR
France – Pau Harry Gruyaert was born in 1941 in Antwerp, Belgium. He studied photography and film in Brussels and later directed documentaries for Flemish television as a director of photography. Later, in the early 1960s, he moved to France and settled in Paris, his adopted city. However, it was American photographers, such as Richard […]
FROM MIDWEST TO MIDTOWN
United States – Los Angeles The Fahey/Klein Gallery continues to promote talent that is redefining the medium of fine art photography through two exhibitions: “Midwest Materials” by Julie Blackmon and “Midtown Exit” by Geof Kern. The gallery, founded by David Fahey and Randee Klein Devlin, is featuring two contemporary artists in its Los Angeles space. […]
THREE STORIES FROM NORWAY
Nordic lights In parallel with its major exhibition devoted to the Normans,1 the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen offers us the opportunity to “discover new territories of visual creation” through a selection of works by three contemporary Norwegian photographers. A change of scenery guaranteed… Although very different, the three universes in which we are transported […]
MARTIN PARR, A PLAYFUL LOOK AT THE ABSURDITY OF THE WORLD
The British living legend invites us to explore his entire work between humor and social criticism at the Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière in Paris. In his fifty-year career, Martin Parr has created fiction from reality, marking European visual culture. This native of Epsom in the United Kingdom, who will blow his 70 spring on […]
JULIETA AVERBUJ, INTROSPECTIVE JOURNEY
The artist and director from Barcelona has been experimenting with the medium of photography for a few years through various series and above all a memorial work, original and full of sensitivity. Julieta Averbuj’s work is about experimentation, introspection, and remembrance. This former film director graduated from the University of Film in Buenos Aires and […]
THE WORLD THROUGH HELIN BEREKET’S EYES
The Turkish photographer, based in Berlin, transports us into her environments where architecture and art are mixed in minimalist, geometric, colorful, and contrasting compositions. Helin Bereket’s photographs invite us to travel around the world to places that give her the most creative freedom. The Istanbul-born, Berlin-based architecture and art graduate took up photography by chance […]
LEXICON LOVE, THE ART OF COLLAGE BETWEEN HUMOUR AND TRAGEDY
“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.” This famous sentence by André Breton, leader of surrealism, adorns the website of Harriet Moutsopoulos alias Lexicon Love. A quote that is perfectly representative of the playful work of this Australian artist of Greek origin. The collagist combines vintage portraits, food […]
ELISA MILLER OR THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SELF
The French photographer, based in London, tells visual stories with a vintage and colorful aesthetic that probes questions of identity, self-perception, and the representation of women. Retro, pin-up, rockabilly, fine art, Hollywood glamor, and cinematic storytelling are Elisa Miller’s workhorses. From this attractive mix emerges a photographic work that immediately catches the eye with its […]