THE SURREALIST IMAGERY OF MICHAL ZAHORNACKY
Slovakia – Povazska Bystrica The Slovakian photographer explores the multiple possibilities of portraiture and architecture in pictures where conceptual art and surrealism impose themselves between colour and black and white. Michal Zahornacky places his work between reality and fiction. The eclecticism of his images invites us into highly imaginative visual narratives. Originally […]
INTO THE OTHER WORLDS OF ZHONG LIN
The Malaysian photographer strikes our senses with images that are both mysterious and provocative, sensual and disturbing, opening up new dimensions. Flowers protruding from faces, bodies wrapped in fabric, prickly red lips, eyelashes as long as hair, silhouettes lost in misty water… Welcome to Zhong Lin’s strange, disturbing, and fascinating worlds. Her work reflects the […]
ELENA IV-SKAYA, ODE TO THE MODERN WOMAN
Beauty, elegance, and femininity define the work of this photographer and former model through her very aesthetic, luminous and colorful choices. “The woman is meant to be celebrated; the muse is feminine. I want my models to be beautiful and elegant, no matter what look I’m going for.” Elena Iv-skaya’s strength and energy is evident […]
A LOOK AT THE NEW BLACK AVANT-GARDE
The exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London highlights fifteen international photographers who are liberating the black figure from imagery dominated by white aesthetics. The New Black Vanguard continues to break down established societal dictates, celebrating black creativity in front of and behind the lens. Photographic works include black stylists, models, makeup artists, and creative […]
STEVE SCHAPIRO, GREAT CHRONICLER OF AMERICA
Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles celebrates the legacy and remarkable career of this iconic photojournalist in a commemorative retrospective. Steve Schapiro (1934-2022) immortalized the upheavals and key moments in American society of his time. An avid photographer from the age of nine, influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson, he produced powerful reports on the civil rights struggle, […]
MUYAKA SHITANDA AND SWEET NOSTALGIA
The artist Muyaka Shitanda, born in Nairobi, Kenya, photographs the world while offering viewers an escape from reality for a moment to contemplate and be guided through the stories he captures with his eye and his work of image construction. A world whose beauty is defined by a certain aestheticism that he has developed by […]
HORST P. HORST, TIMELESS ELEGANCE
The SCAD FASH Museum in Atlanta, USA, pays tribute to Horst P. Horst, one of the most aesthetic photographers of the 20th century, through more than 80 of the most avant-garde images of fashion. Nicknamed the “photographer of elegance,” Horst P. Horst, born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann (1906-1999), captured the icons of fashion, film, and […]
ELLIOT AND ERICK JIMENEZ BETWEEN TWO WORLD
Born of Cuban immigrant parents, Elliot and Erick Jiménez grew up with a strong cultural heritage. Between stories, legends, saints, and divinities, these brothers have succeeded, over the years, in retranscribing, through their photographic work, the cultural diversity and their Cuban-American upbringing, mixing both spiritual worlds and history. Passionate about art history and historical paintings, […]
ARCHITECTURE IN THE EYE OF ROMAIN LAPRADE
With his new book Distances Volume II, the Parisian photographer continues to impose his signature by magnifying architecture in its smallest details. Romain Laprade has been passionate about architecture, design, and landscapes since his adolescence. This thirty-year-old photographer, a former graphic designer at Vogue and Holiday, often favors the interaction between nature and urban structures. […]
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 […]
