March 14, 2014

Since its first edition in 1913 and the sensational unveiling of Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, the Armory Show has been a showcase for the avant-garde. One hundred years later, the exhibitors…

The institution responsible for gathering a treasure-trove of memory and saving an impressive body of archives from photo studios has approached the theme “Together” with originality and detachment tinged with…

This series also could have won with its beautiful depiction of snow-covered Kabul, discreet, tender, showing a remarkable finesse with colors. Rarely have we felt such harmony in Kabul, with…

It is to this Brazilian photographer that I might have given the International Lens Award. Her black-and-white “story” of two sisters in the same train is tender, elegant, mysterious and…

Some will be won over by this exhibition. Others won’t. But it is undoubtedly the product of serious work and reflection on the part of Mohamed Abu El Naga, who examines…

In the room next door is a series by Dalia Naber on the former soldiers who stand guard at the entrances of immense homes and buildings throughout the city. While the photography…

Finally, in the exhibition space of the Zara Gallery in the luxurious Grand Hyatt hotel, a documentary exhibition that’s well done, and on a theme that may surprise. The young Jordanian…

To discover one of the festival’s most interesting exhibitions, you have to climb the stairs and enter the Fann Wa Chai café-gallery, opened a year ago by Linda Al Khoury,…

This is the fourth edition of the International Image Festival in Amman, Jordan. Founded and funded by the French Institute, the festival was the idea of its current director, Charles Henri Gros,…