ERWIN OLAF
Dance in Close-Up Contractions, contortions, and movements… The choreographic body is a moving poem. How to capture its incessant fluctuations, its continuous metamorphosis? How to render the essence of movement through the still image? The Amsterdam photographer Erwin Olaf and the great Dutch choreographer Hans van Manen took up this challenge together, at the initiative […]
TO REVERSE ITS EYES
Around the arte povera “It would be a shame not to respond to this beautiful invitation from the BAL and the Jeu de Paume, associated for the occasion: a plunge into “the dazzling Italian artistic effervescence of the 1960s and 1970s” through 250 works by some fifty artists affiliated with the “alternative avant-garde to the […]
ELLA BATS OR THE 8TH PICTORIAL ART
Her pictures are an invitation to revel in color, beauty, and the human being, creating close links between painting, drawing, and photography. The French photographer questions the collision of emotions, characteristics, and contradictions of the human being, giving free rein to the viewer’s imagination. This former graduate of ENSAAMA and the Gobelins school was initially […]
DIANA MARKOSIAN : A DREAM COME TRUE
Galerie Les filles du calvaire is featuring the work of photographer Diana Markosian in an exhibition entitled Santa Barbara. She was first exhibited at MoMa in San Francisco, ICP in New York, FOMU in Antwerp, and Images Vevey in Switzerland. . After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, one of the first American […]
NO MAN’S TIME, THE SUBLIME OF RUIN
Until November 19, the Esther Woerdehoff gallery will present the poetic work of Thomas Jorion, «No Man’s Time.» A series in which the photographer questions the beauty of these places, nourished by the ever-increasing hold of nature. Cinemas, factories, palaces, these ruins photographed in large format evoke titanic constructions which, for the most part, were […]
BODIES AND CONCRETE, THE CONTRASTING UNIVERSE OF ALEXANDRE LE MOUROUX
The organic and the architectural. Two universes that seem to oppose each other, but which meet in the eye of this native of Orleans. It was during evening classes at the Beaux-Arts, at a very young age, that Alexandre Le Mouroux discovered the artistic nude. It is only later, armed with his camera, that the […]
PHOTOSAINTGERMAIN, THE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL IN THE HEART OF SAINT GERMAIN-DES-PRÉS
From November 3 to 19, the PhotoSaintGermain exhibition will be presided over by Benoît Sapiro, founder of the Le Minotaure Gallery. Since 2010, the event presents the work of talented photographers in the heart of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district. Galleries, museums, bookstores and cultural centers of the sixth arrondissement of Paris will gather the pictures of […]
SAYURI ICHIDA STRANGE ABSENCE
We have not finished discovering the effects of confinement on the creative process of artists. Far from restricting their inspiration, isolation seems to have more often than not increased it tenfold. Thus, exiled and entrenched in her New York studio, the Japanese photographer Sayuri Ichida, for lack of models, has taken herself as an “object” […]
BASTIAAN WOUDT, MASTER OF DETAIL, FORM AND LIGHT
The Dutch photographer captivates with his minimalist, elegant, and vaporous monochrome compositions, which flirt with the abstract and the surreal. Bastiaan Woudt has made a breakthrough in the world of art and photography in just ten years. With no formal training, the 35-year-old Dutch native learned on the job and chose to experiment, like a […]
MANON DECK-SABLON CAPTURED NUDITY
After graduating in architecture and landscape design, the artist photographer Manon Deck-Sablon became passionate about photography – in parallel to her job as a landscape designer. Many photographers such as Chloé Rosser, Brooke Didonato or Spencer Tunick have inspired her work. These different inspirations have allowed her to sharpen her eye in order to better […]
MARTA BEVACQUA : DREAMING WITH YOUR EYES OPEN
A single glance is often enough to recognize the signature of Italian photographer Marta Bevacqua. Behind her lens, the woman who works with the biggest names in fashion instinctively finds the gestures of her father, an amateur photographer. A passion that runs in her veins but which only revealed itself to her as an adult. […]
MARIA MARIA ACHA-KUTSCHER
María María Acha-Kutscher rewrites history. Whether in black-and-white photocollages or in large-scale drawings based on the aesthetics of 1970s comics, rectifying the past remains her main concern. Describing herself as a feminist artist, this Chilean creative, based in Madrid, carries out long-term projects that explore the cultural construction of the notion of femininity and highlight […]
FRANK HORVAT
If he revolutionized fashion photography by giving new life to the engrossed and statuesque models of the pre-war period through the irruption of a lively, humorous and offbeat “spirit of reportage,” he never ceased to renew and experiment, to the point of being accused of losing his way and reproached for his excessive eclecticism. From […]
DONATA WENDERS
Former assistant director and set photographer, the wife of the great director Wim Wenders, Donata Wenders has been developing a poetic black-and-white photographic work since 1995. It is in her series, In the Snow (2010), that her work comes closest to a pictorialist research: elegant female figures appear as if in transparency behind a rain […]
ELSA & JOHANNA : THE TIMELESS STORY OF MOORMERLAND
Exploring, with a very sure sense of humor and duplicity, The Plural Life of Identity, to use the title of their first retrospective in Germany in 2021, Elsa & Johanna unveil their new visual narrative at the Studio of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. A new narrative of self-fiction “in the smallest detail” carried […]
BRAD WALLS : TRANSCENDS AERIAL IMAGERY
The Australian photographer sublimates the beauty of sports and pools, of bodies and spaces, via extraordinary shots taken with drones. Offering a never-seen-before, alternative view in his compositions is the singularity of Brad Walls. This Sydney native, who is blowing out his thirties this year, burst onto the photographic scene in spectacular fashion in 2019. […]
ImageNation Milan
Spotlight on the new talents of photography After the success of the ImageNation event in Paris, which took place last May in one of the Joseph galleries, photography enthusiasts will meet from September 23rd to 29th at the Fondazione Luciana Matalon in Milan. Known worldwide as one of the world’s design and fashion capitals, in […]
Rachel Fleminger Hudson, between realism and fantasy
London-based photographer, costume designer, and filmmaker Rachel Fleminger Hudson reinvents the past by recounting scenes of life through the lens of materiality and imagery influenced by 1970s aesthetics. This 25-year-old interdisciplinary artist, trained at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, examines how society constructs perceptions of the past and shows how […]
LES RENCONTRES D’ARLES : PHOTOGRAPHIC STORIES
After a year of silence in 2020 and a limited edition in 2021, it was with great emotion that we went to the 53rd edition of the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles. The 2022 edition was somewhat disoriented and complex, but nonetheless powerful and profound, with a lot of exploration and experimentation. Acumen’s editorial team […]
JOANNA CHUDY : FRAGMENTS AND FLOATS
Joanna Chudy (born in 1976 in Poland, graduated from the Krakow School of Fine Arts in 2002) sees the woman horizontally, lying down, floating, like a cloud or still waters, and exalts its beauty in fragments. Here, a flower-face topped with amaryllis (Fragmentary memories, 2011); there, an eye emerging through the crack of a white […]
ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA
Simulacra A nugget in the midst of the expansive, heterogeneous unpacking of the Venice Biennale 2022 exhibition, “The Milk of Dreams,” the photographic series Mama, created in 2018 by the Polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska, is as disturbing as it is upsetting. Reactivating the subversive themes dear to the Surrealists through the fetishized figure of the […]
ASIAN FOLKLORE AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE
Winner of the Picto Young Fashion Photographer Award in 2020, Chiron Duong is making a name for himself on the international scene with his flamboyant, twirling visual works. This former architect of Vietnamese origin turned to photography with a declared ambition: to represent traditional Vietnamese culture from a contemporary perspective. Far from the clichés, his […]
Vanessa Bosio: behind the scenes
Vanessa Bosio is a photographer of the moment. Whether behind the scenes of a fashion show or on a construction site, the photographer captures unique images, because they are raw, real and alive. No posing, no staging, no preparation: Vanessa Bosio is interested in the emotion of a look, a gesture or an object. During […]
CHRISTOPHER BARRAJA’S SUNNY SHOTS
Winner of the Picto Grand Prize for Fashion Photography at this 24th edition, photographer Christopher Barraja unveils with his intimate series “De Chlore et de Rosé” a bewitching ode to intertwined bodies. In the course of his various shots, the photographer invites the viewer to travel in search of an intoxicating iodized elsewhere. As soon […]