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 […]
ULAS & MERVE: FASHION THROUGH THE EYE OF SURREALISM
Their portfolio is a play of shapes and movements. Images of refined colour, sprinkled with humour and deeply inspired by surrealism. She’s Ulas Kesebir. He is Merve Turkan. Both have been imposing their style for ten years under the pseudonym Ulas & Merve. This duo of photographers and videographers, originally from Turkey, now lives in […]
OLGA URBANEK: BEING BODY AND CHORDS
The luminous portraits by the Berlin-based Polish photographer offer visual escapes on the borderline between fashion and fine art. Olga Urbanek probes human solitude and the connection between body, clothes and environment in images awash with colour. This former graduate in art history at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University and in production at the […]
PAULINE ALIOUA : MYSTERIOUS, INTRANQUIL PHOTOGRAPHY
“Empty streets, deserted beaches, foggy roads. Silhouettes of anonymous men, shadows. Cars at a standstill, flat tyres, folded umbrellas. Under the rain, in the crushing heat, a strange feeling of the end of the world circulates, suspended, through the images. [… ” These words by Pauline Alioua, introducing her series “Phantomatic// Nowhere to be seen […]
MARIA SVARBOVA’S FUTURISTIC NOSTALGIA
The Slovak photographer explores the loneliness of the human experience in ultra-careful, colour-saturated stagings that plunge us into the heart of socialist-era architecture. Maria Svarbova was born in Slovakia in the twilight of the 1980s, on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet bloc. She grew up in a country where monuments have left […]
IN THE NOCTURNAL IMAGINATION OF DOMINIK PODLIPNIAK
The medium of photography is a story of atmosphere for this 23-year-old Polish visual artist and graphic designer. But also, of healing. This discovery, combined with exploration, had therapeutic and cathartic effects at a difficult time in his life. Solitary figures, silhouettes lurking in the shadows, glittering neon lights, car headlights, skyscrapers lost in the […]
BODY TO BODY, HISTOIRE(S) DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
The Centre Pompidou’s “Corps à corps” exhibition combines its famous photographic collection with that of collector Marin Karmitz, to offer, “an unprecedented look at photographic representations of the human figure in the 20th and 21st centuries”. This major exhibition, featuring over 500 photographs and documents, is divided into seven sections: Early Faces, Automatism, Fulgurances, Fragments, […]
ALEXANDRE SOUÊTRE : GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHY
Low-angle silhouettes, drifting glacier debris, “portraits” of rocks or icebergs, solitary strollers in deserted immensity, rectilinear shadow play… Alexandre Souêtre has a sense of staging and purity. A sense of strangeness and melancholy too. For example, the strange portrait of a woman with a bare back wearing a woollen balaclava, or another woman in her […]
Norman Reedus : In Transit
To be discovered in the heart of the Marais district, in parallel with the “Paris photo” event, the photographic work of multifaceted actor Norman Reedus. The American artist, best known for playing the lead role, as Daryl, in the “Walking Dead” series, began his career as a sculptor, painter and photographer before becoming an actor. […]
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 […]
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 […]
SARAH DOYLE’S DREAMY, STIMULATING SPACES
IRELAND – DUBLIN The Irish photographer questions our conception of reality and our relationship to objects and scale. This alumnus of the University of the Arts in London offers a “playful and deliberately ambiguous” approach to the female experience. Colours, solids, contrasts, lines and shapes are all expressions of this world to create her own […]
NADIA LEE COHEN, A PHOTOGRAPHER BETWEEN DREAM AND REALITY
United States – California Born in the English countryside in 1992, Nadia Lee Cohen quickly found her own vision and personal universe through the lens of her camera. For several years now, this young British artist has been traveling the world to bring society a fresh look at a fantasized America. Even as a child, […]
THE VISUAL EMOTIONS OF SANJA MARUŠIĆ
Pays-Bas – Amsterdam The Dutch-Croatian photographer transports us to another world through her surreal, dreamlike, colour-saturated images for a temporary escape from reality. Mysterious self-portraits, desolate landscapes and vibrant colours, Sanja Marušić’s photographs are pure wonder. This 32-year-old Amsterdam-based virtuoso has been making a name for herself on the art scene in recent years. Her […]
ANNABELLE FOUCHER, THE ART OF REVEALING
France – Reims The French photographer transfigures everyday life in finely studied settings where bodies, objects and fashion accessories take on a touching and emotional dimension. Some of her works emphasise the purity and organic nature of the materials used in the fashion industry, while others capture with strength and delicacy human fissures and landscapes […]
CLAUDE BATHO & ERICA LENNARD
FRANCE – PARIS THE ETERNAL FEMININE A foggy window, an umbrella hanging from a cracked wall, a basin of wet laundry, a little girl asleep on a bench… all simplicity and strangeness, Claude Batho’s photographs express the poetry of everyday life, that of common objects and household chores. Enhanced by black and white, individualised by […]
STEFANIE LANGENHOVEN OR SELF-AWARENESS
SOUTH AFRICA The South African artist and photographer explores the female psyche through the themes of pregnancy, changes in mother-daughter relationships, dreams, fear and death. “Your vision becomes clear when you can look into your heart. He who looks outside himself is only dreaming; he who looks inside himself wakes up”. This quote from Carl […]