Léa Nielsen, blurring boundaries
The Danish art and fashion photographer explores the subconscious and the transformations of our inner worlds in collages and hand-painted photographs that sublimate light between sensitivity, duality and poetry. “You just have to shoot and shoot and shoot and never give up.” This is the guiding principle that Léa Nielsen never stops pursuing. This Danish […]
ARNAUD MONTAGARD, THE MYTHS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
A French photographer who has lived in the United States for over ten years, Arnaud Montagard is a pure product of street photography. With numerous awards to his name, including that of the Florida Museum of Photographic Art in 2020, he approaches the country’s geographical landscape as a vast playground for investigation, gathering and working […]
IAN HOWORTH A KEEN OBSERVER
Giving the everyday life of small-town England and its middle classes the gentle poetry of a love song or a melancholy drama, that’s what photographer Ian Howorth’s work offers. A documentary photographer who lives in Brighton and whose mother is of Peruvian origin, Howorth’s work is built on this cross-cultural perspective. His books, from “Arcadia” […]
Vincent Ferrané, the essence of being
The Paris-based photographer probes the intimate and the everyday, the human and the fragment of the body, the interior and interiors in a constant reinterpretation of reality between sensitivity and symbolism. Vincent Ferrané’s visual language is immediately appealing. Not just by what he shows in his images, but by what they signify. This Bristolian virtuoso […]
SENTA SIMOND, INTIMATE AND RELATIONAL IMAGES
They’re there, strange and distorted. In the photographs of Swiss artist Senta Simond, objects and bodies appear under the photographer’s subjective gaze, which can be seen in the Studio of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris until next February. The images produced by the photographer plunge the public into a direct relationship with […]
CAPTURING THE SOUL, EXPLORING THE SELF – THE ART OF PORTRAITURE BY SARI SOININEN
In the luminous setting of her Helsinki studio, Finnish photographer Sari Soininen has found an unexpected therapy in self-portraiture. She transforms her self-portraits into a deeply personal, introspective dialogue. Her works, imbued with a palette of vibrant colours, become veritable inner quests and revelations of the soul. Using shutter speeds and chronophotography, each shot is […]
LOREDANA NEMES, THE SYMPHONY OF GRAYS
From the sparkle of a sea that “knows all the grays” to the graphic shadows of beech trees in mist and snow, Loredana Nemes transfigures a legendary land with breathtaking precision. Between nostalgia and dreaminess, we plunge into this black-and-white enchantment. Crowned by a forest of hundred-year-old beech trees, chalk cliffs rise up out of […]
KATE BARRY, Rétrospective
On the 10th anniversary of her tragic death at the age of 46, Jane Birkin’s eldest daughter is the subject of a retrospective designed to show the diversity of her still little-known work, from portraits to fashion photos, landscapes and other “out-of-frame” photographs. A world of fragility and poetry that cannot leave anyone indifferent. “… […]
QUENTIN DE BRIEY, FASHION AND STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
A former professional skateboarder turned photographer, Quentin de Briey’s latest book takes us on a journey through New York over the past ten years, combining live shots, street portraits, portraits of friends and images from his editorial work. “Thank you for your business”, as the book is called, is a condensed photographic diary stretching from […]
PAOLO BARRETTA, TRAVEL WITH IN AND BEYOND
The Italian photographer’s images take us into a strange, disturbing, surreal universe, isolated from the world. “My name is winter and I talk about coldness” is Paolo Emanuele Barretta’s tagline on his Behance account. A former student of photography, post-production and communications, Barretta started out drawing before moving into visual storytelling and portraiture. Since then, […]
INDIA LANGE : BETWEEN LIGHT AND SHADOW
In the rainy alleys of Paris, a dance unfolds on the edge of the sidewalk, captured by the watchful eye of India Lange. Cinématographiquement vôtre A self-taught visual artist with a passion for images, India Lange started out in the field of visual creation by making short films. These works, characterised by captivating scenarios and […]
DEBORAH TURBEVILLE, PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN APPARITION
From photograph to photocollage, Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013) has created a melancholy, timeless universe that belongs to her alone. “I enter the private world of women, where one never goes,” the American photographer once declared. The Musée de Photographie de Lausanne is devoting a retrospective to the woman who gave fashion photography a soul. It was […]
CHITOSE KUROISHI, ALLEGORIES OF SELF-TELLING
The Japanese artist, based in Tokyo and New York, takes us on a journey into art and essay photography through her reflexive and mental peregrinations in black and white, on the edge of filmic narrative. Chitose Kuroishi’s series are haunting, introspective visual stories that probe questions of identity. Hers particularly, in relation to herself, others, […]
DEFENDED LOVE, BY LIN ZHIPENG, AKA 223
“Amour Défendu” (Forbidden Love) is the second collaboration between talented Beijing-based photographer Lin Zhipeng, aka 223, and New York-based curator and producer Anna Mistal. Paris, City of Light, City of Love… was the starting point for the project initiated by Anna Mistal. Between clichés and fantasies, she wanted to see what Paris, an important city […]
GREGORY CREWDSON EVENINGSIDE
Swapping colour for black and white, Gregory Crewdson plunges us into the depths of disillusioned America with a new series that’s more crepuscular than ever. Entitled “Eveningside”, this latest instalment in a trilogy developed since 2012 is presented at Galerie Templon in Paris, after having been shown at the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles this […]
KATRIEN DE BLAUWER THE MYSTERY OF TRUNCATED BODIES
A “photographer without a camera”, Katrien de Blauwer uses old magazines dating from the 1960s to compose enigmatic and sensual photomontages. Playing with the fragmentation and obliteration of the images she collects, which she doesn’t hesitate to truncate and scar with coloured pencils, she fashions snatches of narratives in which the eye likes to wander […]
YZA VOKU, THE ART OF IN-BETWEEN IMAGES
The Spanish photographer and art director Yza Voku probes the transitions of the image, questioning conventional boundaries for new perspectives. Under the pseudonym YZA Voku, this Seville-born, Madrid-based artist develops his projects between photography, digital art, design and video. For him, everything becomes a perfect visual playground for creation, research, experimentation and the intersection of […]
LORE STESSEL BETWEEN PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Combining the tools of photography with the gesture of painting, the work of this Belgian artist is both seductive and disconcerting. A wonderful discovery for the Galerie des Filles du Calvaire, which is devoting its first solo show to her in France with a magnificent series of photographs on canvas, the result of an encounter […]
PARCOURS PARIS PHOTO
A great master of distortion, André Kertész (1894-1985) said he photographed not what he saw, but what he felt. With this in mind, we wandered the aisles of the world’s largest photography fair 1 in search of the nuggets we bring you here: photographs that make you feel beyond the image… We were captivated by […]
MARCUS SCHAEFER, THE CONTEMPORARY SURREALIST
The Paris-based German artist masterfully coordinates photography, drawing and sculpture in his work, in which surrealism and the colour black, in all its dichotomous variations, rediscover their vital force. His work is spectral in character; a distortion of the visual and a revision of perspective, offering a fascinating point of view. Marcus Schaefer, a graduate […]
DAIDO MORIYAMA OR PHOTOGRAPHY AS DEMOCRATIC LANGUAGE
For the first time in the UK, the Photographers’ Gallery presents a retrospective of the work of this master of Japanese photography, retracing sixty years of emblematic creations. “Forget everything you’ve ever learned about photography and shoot the moment. Take pictures – of anything and everything that catches your eye. Don’t stop to think,” says […]
PARIS PHOTO
FIRST INTERNATIONAL FAIR DEDICATED TO THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIUM New curatorial directions highlighting the major figures of contemporary photography, as well as a dialogue between past and present through the confrontation of vintage works and works by current artists pushing back the boundaries of the medium, mark this eagerly awaited new edition of Paris Photo (the […]
MEP DEVOTES RETROSPECTIVE TO ARTIST VIVIANE SASSEN
Until February 12, 2024, the MEP is devoting a retrospective to Viviane Sassen. A first in France. From video to collage and painting, over two hundred works retrace the extraordinary career of this Dutch artist. Take a tour. As a student at a fashion school, Sassen turned to photography and began training at the Utrecht […]
GRAMMARS, ARTIST ANDRÉS BARÓN’S FIRST SOLO SHOW AT DS GALERIE
In 2016, Thomas Havet, then an architect, had the idea of founding Double Séjour, an art gallery housed in his apartment. It subsequently led him to organise multiple nomadic exhibitions and then to obtain a residency at POUSH for a year. This artistic journey culminated in the creation of the DS Galerie last March, in […]