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 A capture of the blur resulting from movement (the “motion blur”) that may seem outdated compared to the blurs of focus or made by filters, […]
GUY BOURDIN HONORED AT ARMANI/SILOS
Italy – Milan On the occasion of Milan Fashion Week, Giorgio Armani celebrates the creativity of the visionary photographer in its Milanese space, who knew how to bring together the mysterious, the bizarre, and the sublime in his pictures. His themes include surrealistic strangeness, the glamour of fashion, provocative humor, and the mysterious intrigues of […]
THE SURREALIST IMAGERY OF MICHAL ZAHORNACKY
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 from Povazska Bystrica in Slovakia, this lifelong […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]