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Luis Casadevall presents We Still Have the Soul.Havana at the Ateneo de Madrid during PHotoESPAÑA. For twelve years, Luis Casadevall returned time and again to the same streets of Havana. He was not seeking to produce a report on Cuba or document its political reality. He wanted to understand its people, learn their stories, and discover what keeps a city alive even in the most difficult circumstances. The result is…

L’Éphémère Galerie – Comptoir des Voyages presents until June 12, Les Matriarches (The Matriarchs), an exhibition by Nadia Ferroukhi. She writes: For nearly twenty years, I have travelled the world, seeking out communities where women occupy a central place in social, cultural or family life. Over the course of seventeen reportages carried out across several continents, I have discovered matrilineal societies, communities preserving ancestral traditions, and women engaged in profound…

Timothy Floyd sent us his essay on Robert Capa's D-Day pictures from June 6, 1944. We found it quite fascinating, so here it is. In remembrance of D.Day it will be in free access for all until Sunday. The saga of Robert Capa's D-Day pictures from June 6, 1944, is well-known among photography enthusiasts, professional photojournalists and editors, and D-Day history buffs. The self-made Capa, who had been dubbed the…

From June 13 to August 30, 2026, the Festival Photo Martagny returns for its 9th edition with a programme bringing together a carefully curated selection of French and international contemporary artists. A dialogue between documentary, poetic and artistic perspectives, inviting the public to explore the world through multiple stories and visions. Every summer, the Norman village of Martagny transforms into an open-air gallery. Founded in 2018 by the association Visions…

Joseph Caprio is presented in the exhibition “ Un Autre Regard ” organised by the association Reg’Arts, running from June 2 to July 4. He will be showing 4 large-format photographs of Grenoble-based choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta. Joseph Caprio’s photographs are on show at the Centre médical Rocheplane, where a talk and concert will be held on July 3, from 6 pm. The opening reception will take place on Friday, June…

Pierre Gable presents his series Les Imparfaits as follows: Through this series, I photograph people who agree, for a fleeting moment, to let their masks drop. Fragile faces, silent bodies, gazes that are sometimes elusive, sometimes surrendered. I seek neither to correct nor to idealise. I simply try to approach that part of humanity we so often conceal: the cracks, the hesitations, the marks of time, the vulnerability. These “Imparfaits”…

 This summer, Aperture magazine presents “Secrets,” an issue exploring the hidden forces that shape our lives and what we see—from state control and intelligence-gathering to voyeurism and coded gestures. What power does a secret hold in an age of relentless visibility, when we’re pressured to perform and share our lives constantly? “Secrets” abounds with clues, even if disclosure isn’t always the end game. In Mexico City, Iñaki Bonillas casts a gimlet eye…

Archives - June 5, 2014 The Maison Européenne de la Photographie is holding a retrospective of the work of Marie-Paule Nègre through August 31. The journalist Magali Jauffret has written two wonderful pieces about Nègre’s work, including on the themes of affluence and and poverty. We would like to thank her for giving us permission to republish them here. Ordinary Poverty in Modern Times In the Late 1980s, a new vocabulary for economics and…

Archives - June 5, 2023 MYOP is about to release its book Ukraine – Fragments 02-2022 / 02-2023. The book will be available at the beginning of June in bookstores, with a launch during the Rencontres d'Arles. The Russian invasion launched on February 24, 2022 has tipped more than 40 million Ukrainians into a reality that we can only grasp through reports and testimonies. Since the start of the war,…

The Jeu de Paume presents Fragile beauté - Photographs from the Collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish. Sir Elton John began collecting photography in 1991. Today, this private collection, assembled together with David Furnish, is considered one of the most important in the world. Celebrated for its exceptional quality, as well as the remarkable breadth and depth of its holdings, it spans the 20th and 21st centuries and…

The Jeu de Paume presents Madeleine de Sinéty : Une vie. The exhibition is the first retrospective devoted to Madeleine de Sinéty (1934–2011) – presented at the Château de Tours in 2025, then in Paris in 2026 – whose singular and still little-known photographic work, in colour and in black and white, spans four decades between France and the United States. Born in a Loire Valley château destroyed by fire…

Le Château d’eau - Château d’art presents, as part of Bourges 2026 – Le Mois de la Photo, the exhibition Catherine Balet : Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes. “Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes” is a collaboration between an artist fascinated by the evolution of photography and her friend Ricardo, her model and muse. The project, initiated in July 2013 at the Rencontres photographiques d’Arles…

Galerie Camera Obscura presents Yamamoto Masao : Saru. This new exhibition by Yamamoto Masao presents a body of photographs made throughout his work on a theme close to his heart: animals. And among them, more particularly the astonishing images of a community of monkeys (Saru in Japanese) that he has been following for several years. Yamamoto writes in the preface to the book Saru, published by éditions Textuel: I am…

The Centro Cultural de Cascais in Portugal presents an exhibition featuring photographs from the early years of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley: Becoming Marilyn & Becoming Elvis – Photographs from the MUUS Collection. In 2026, the centenary year of Marilyn Monroe’s birth, Cascais joins the global celebration of one of the greatest icons of the 20th century. The same year also marks the 70th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s media breakthrough:…

On May 26 and 27, 2026, A Dream of Saudi Arabia arrived in Paris for a two-day event at the Molière, offering an immersive experience around the new photography book by Gilles Bensimon. Through the lens of photographer Gilles Bensimon, Saudi Arabia came to Paris for two exclusive, immersive, and sensory-rich days, unveiling the diversity of its craftsmanship, traditions, and culinary arts. Presented in an elegant private mansion in the…