Catherine Balet’s genre scenes
Catherine Balet’s latest work is currently on view at the Thierry Bigaignon Gallery in Paris. It is amazing how the intimate space of this gallery resonates with the interior scenes depicted by the artist. Straddling collage, painting, and photography, the exhibition “Moods in a Room” will be challenging our ways of looking until March 30.
Merry Alpern’s dirty windows
By capturing the peepshow unfolding behind a bathroom window, the American photographer has created a beautiful and disturbing series which explores the relationships between women and men. This magnificent series can be seen for the first time in Paris at Galerie Miranda.
Laure Tiberghien: An alchemist of the polychrome
The artist has barely half a minute to produce a colorful fresco using a special technique that requires a delicate touch. The results are vibrant tableaus currently on view at Galerie Lumière des Roses in Montreuil.
Baptiste Rabichon’s colorful vertigos
The young photographer finds new ways to experiment with photography. Using two scanners, he has produced a breathtaking series in which a boxed-in world is swept by visual chaos. Baptiste Rabichon’s work is on display at Galerie Binôme in Paris.
The step of a photographic project #3
What questions should we ask the project to get the most out of it?
Matthew Porter : matter, form, light
Until March 2, Galerie Xippas in Geneva is showing the work of the contemporary American photographer Matthew Porter. This graphic exhibition creates a dialog between matter, form, and light.
5 photo contests not to be missed!
The famed awards, which come up in springtime, are eagerly anticipated, much talked about, and coveted all year round. To kick off the new season, we have handpicked a few of these must-enter contests!
The 2019 HSBC Prize Winners!
From among a dozen finalists, the Executive Committee has chosen two: the Swiss photographer Dominique Teufen and the Portuguese Nuno Andrade. Here are the two photographers and their works in a nutshell.
Hélène Bellenger: Artificial bodies
How can one evoke a current topic by using archival images? This is precisely what Hélène Bellenger’s series Les Corps dociles [The Docile Bodies] has achieved. In the age of the Weinstein affair and #MeToo, mournfully comical faces portrayed by the young photographer acquire an aura of embarrassment. It was while conducting extensive research work in the archives of the Toulouse Cinémathèque, as part of the 1+2 Factory residency, that Hélène Bellenger developed her project about archetypal constructions of female representation in the cinema of 1920–1950.
The step of a photographic project #2
Phases in the execution of a photographic project
Luigi Ghirri: A cartographer of the invisible
An exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris traces a prolific decade in the work of the Italian photographer. A pioneer of color photography, Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) was able to turn photography into an instrument for better capturing “earth writing” and the “architecture of the ephemeral.”
Circulation(s): A survey of works in the exhibition
Starting April 20, the Circulation(s) Festival is coming to occupy Le Centquatre in Paris. This event aims to promote young European photographers. We bring you a preview of some must-see works.
William Daniels, stalking tension
The photojournalist received carte blanche to design an exhibit of his work at the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin in Paris: he presents the visitors with a decade of photographic work, which he frames in an elegant scenography.
Motorstudies: On the road with François Bellabas
Currently in residency at the Centre Photographique d’Ile de France (CPIF), the young photographer François Bellabas is working on a project titled Motorstudies, which he started three years ago. We take a closer look at his study of cars, halfway between science fiction and the traditional American road-trip.
Frédéric Stucin: Wandering through Las Vegas
The photographer went behind the scenes of the city of casinos and composed beautiful portraits of solitude. His series Only Bleeding is on display at the VU’ Gallery in Paris.
The steps of a photographic project #1
What is a project and why we are working this way today ?
In the colours of Vivian Maier
This mysterious American photographer has delivered passionate work which never ceases to intrigue. The Galerie Les Douches in Paris presents a re-reading of her work through her colour photos.
The scrumptious pigments of Vasantha Yogananthan
The photographer is exhibiting his work on the Ramayana myth, an Indian mythological epic which tells the story of a prince and princess condemned to live in exile for fourteen years. Vibrant, colourful pictures which can be seen in the Folia Gallery in Paris.
The supernatural waters of Reuben Wu
Whether extraterrestrial presence or scientific experiments, the geometric shapes of Reuben Wu’s new series propel us into a paranormal universe. The multi-talented British artist (Reuben Wu is also a filmmaker and musician) had already surprised the audience with his series Lux Noctis, which displayed futuristic and apocalyptic looking landscapes overhung by strange circles of light. With Aeroglyphs, he once again explores the use of the drone to create images with a fascinating and uncanny atmosphere.
Here are the 12 nominees of the 2019 HSBC Photography Award
For the 24th edition of the HSBC Prize for Photography, 12 photographers were selected by Stefano Stoll, director of the Image festival in Vevey.
“A Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography”. A photographic feast
The “A Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography” exhibition is filling the walls of the Foam Museum in Amsterdam until 3rd March 2019.
