PANORAMA GLASS LODGE, AN AIR OF THE END OF THE WORLD
Iceland Enjoy the midnight sun in summer and admire the Aurora Borealis in winter from your bed or private Jacuzzi: great reasons to book a few nights in this lodge with simple luxury… at least seven months in advance. Andreas and Sabrina, a couple from Switzerland and Germany, are at the origin of the seven […]
SAGAS OF OLIVIER JOLY, DREAMLIKE TRIP TO ICELAND
The new book by photographer and reporter Olivier Joly takes us to a melancholy Iceland of raw beauty. This book, composed of black and white photographs, immerses us in isolated places, in an icy, polar, solar tundra full of mystery. Following a career as a sports journalist, Olivier Joly decided to change his life to […]
SATELLITE HOTEL , AN EXOTIC RETREAT IN FLORIDA
United States – Florida The multidisciplinary studio VBO Architecture, based in São Paulo and New York, brilliantly combines structure and nature. For its founder, Victor B. Ortiz, each of his projects must invoke livability with nature, culture, and technology in a seamless way. In collaboration with architect Renata Leinemann, he completed this custom hotel suite, […]
SCOTLAND, A FILM SET
Its bewitching landscapes and its Gaelic identity make it as endearing as unforgettable. We can’t count the number of films that have engraved in our minds this image of a wild land full of mystery, ruins and romantic moors. Scotland is true to its reputation. Its gateway can be Glasgow or Edinburgh, two cities with […]
ANDROIDS, DO YOU HAVE A SOUL?
The Belgian photographer Wanda Tuerlinckx documents, through her fascinating series Androids, this technological revolution that is transforming society and the relationship between man and machine. The work of Wanda Tuerlinckx is impressive, both in content and form. This 54-year-old Belgian photographer, based in Amsterdam, brings together the worlds of art, technology, and science. If she […]
Elliott Erwitt, sensitive and mischievous observer
The white dress of Marilyn Monroe flying over a subway mouth, Jackie Kennedy at the funeral of her husband, Che Guevara, cigar in the beak, the face to face of Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Muscle… These iconic photographs are the work of the great Elliott Erwitt. The Maillol Museum pays […]
SPLENDOR ON THE BASQUE COAST
With his mastery of framing, natural light, and rigorous narration, Roberto Badin continues his exploration of spaces, magnified by his eye that captures their simplicity and their infinity. The Rio de Janeiro-born photographer leaves behind the contrasting Japanese metropolises he immortalized in Inside Japan to immerse us here in the city of Biarritz, where he […]
THE VISUAL ALLEGORIES OF IOANNA NATSIKOU
The Greek photographer disrupts reality in mysterious and colorful visual narratives that probe the exploration of self, identity, and femininity. Her images question the body and the representation of women in their intimacy. Ioanna Natsikou started photography in 2017 when she decided to retrain by taking a course at the Athens School of Fine Arts. […]
KATINKA BOCK, THE SILENCE OF BODIES
A “space of porosity and experimentation,” a “threshold”… photography constitutes for the German artist Katinka Bock – whose “Forms of the Unexpected” we discovered at Lafayette Anticipations three years ago – the “periphery” of her sculptural field. In fact, the photographs gathered here bear witness to her “sculptural” gaze on objects, spaces, nature, and bodies. […]
LAUSANNE, A HISTORY OF BLURRING
In 1951, Otto Steinert photographed the blurred ballet of cars around the Arc de Triomphe from above; twenty-five years later, Jan Groover took a series of photographs of cars driving. A capture of the blur resulting from movement (the “motion blur”) that may seem outdated compared to the blurs of focus or made by filters, […]