We are in Norilsk, a mining town situated in Siberia, 400 km north of the Polar Circle. With its 170,000 inhabitants, it is the biggest town in the Far North.…
May 21, 2014
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In October 1946 several thousand German specialists working in aeronautical engineering were forcibly relocated, along with their families, to the Soviet Union, where they were obliged to work for the…
The Akha ethnic group originated from Southwest China. The akha are classified by Chinese government as part of the Hani people who are an official minority. Akha live in the…
Last Friday we wrote about the exhibition Œil pour œil to mark the fifth anniversary of Signatures, Maison de Photographes. Every week we’ll be presenting you with a series on display at…
“What if Latin America was nothing more than a European invention?” asks Olivier Compagnon in the introductory text to América Latina 1960-2013 (Thames & Hudson). Perhaps then it would be a matter…
Aditya Khosla, a computer science student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has just published an article explaining how he developed an algorithm to predict the popularity of an…
You’ve definitely seen her somewhere, at an opening or a portfolio review, in France or abroad. Sure you have—she’s the tall blond with a big cat in her bag! An…
The 22nd annual Photobiennale in Greece opened in Thessaloniki on May 9th. The theme of this year’s festival is Logos (“Speech”), the conclusion of a thematic trilogy with Topos (2008) and Chronos (2011). Throughout…
The story of Nan Goldin and New York goes back to 1977 when, diploma in hand, she landed in the vibrant, cosmopolitan atmosphere of the American megacity. Drugs, rock n’ roll, punks,…