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The first photography festival in the town of Provins, in Seine-et-Marne, comme des images aims to become an essential annual artistic event, combining photography, heritage and conviviality. This new gathering is structured around contemporary creation and the history of photography, and unfolds across several iconic locations in the town. At the heart of the festival is a commitment to supporting creation through an artist residency dedicated to the Provinois territory.…
André Frère Éditions released White Water, a new book by Charles Xelot. White Water is a visual and narrative exploration of the Northern Sea Route, the maritime corridor that connects Europe to Asia along the Russian Arctic coastline. Conceived as a logbook, “White Water” combines large photographic sequences with travel journals bringing together personal notes, maps and snapshots of everyday life. André Frère Éditions has received support from the Centre…
Nomad Art Collective presents Open Skies, a solo online exhibition of recent photographic work by Carla Sutera Sardo, on view through August 18, 2026. In Sicily, summer arrives with force. The light is unrelenting, the sea vast and deeply blue. The sky opens wide, pressing down on the land with the same insistence as the heat. The elements demand full presence. Into this intensity Sutera Sardo brings play. Her figures…
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Thomas Millet : The Art of Portrait Thomas Millet was originally destined to be an architect before becoming Denis Rouvre's assistant. In October 2000, he left to be the photographer on the "Wanaume" expedition: 170,000 km in Land Rover and two years of travel from Paris to Cape Town via the Middle East and East Africa, followed by a crossing of South America. Back in France, Thomas Millet began a…
The photographic work of the Belgian artist Lisa De Boeck is based on impulses she got from an early age and then throughout the years she continued the reflexive use of the camera through occasional self-portraiture. As a result, the work selected for the first exhibition in the framework of the residency at Villa Pérochon during ‘Les Rencontres 2022 de la jeune photographie internationale’ at Niort, focuses primarily on self-portraits…
In 1978, the Orsay train station and its hotel had been deserted. Construction work on the future museum hadn’t yet begun. It was at that moment that Sophie Calle pushed a door that gave way and chose an abandoned room to take shelter in: Room 501. She spent entire days there, for several months, before her departure for Venice which was to mark the beginning of her future work. During…
Format Festival
Derby, Great-Britain
from June 24th, 2026 to September 7th, 2026
Woirée Studio
105 rue d'Aboukir 75002 Paris
from June 26th, 2026 to June 28th, 2026
Alo Galerie
12 Rue Richard Lenoir, 75011 Paris, France
from July 7th, 2026 to July 14th, 2026
Triennale of Photography Hamburg
Deichtorstraße 1-2, 20095 Hamburg, Allemagne
from June 5th, 2026 to September 22nd, 2026
École municipale d’art de Chalon sur Saône
7 Rue Leschenault de la Tour Entrée au 7 bis, 71100 Chalon-sur-Saône
from July 29th, 2026 to July 30th, 2026
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Archives - June 26, 2018 David Goldblatt died yesterday in Johannesburg. He was 88 years old. We devoted a long subject to him during the opening of his retrospective in Beaubourg last February. Here it is again. Speaking of writing, Jorge Luis Borges advised that one should seek a “secret and modest complexity.” David Goldblatt has expressed his affinity for this formula; indeed, it could be the key to his…
Archives - June 26, 2020 From 27 June to 13 September 2020 the Fondation Vincent van Gogh presents «Complicity», an exhibition dedicated to the Swiss artist Roberto Donetta (1865–1932), whose works are being shown here for the first time in France in the form of an “encounter” with those of Natsuko Uchino, Rose Lowder and Cyprien Gaillard, as well as with Provençal ex-votos, punctuated with floral interventions by Marie Varenne…
The Galerie Julian Sander, in Cologne, presents the exhibition : José María Sert - Études photographiques. The Spanish decorative painter José María Sert (1874–1945), was one of the most dazzling and highest-paid artists of his time, in the first half of the 20th century. His imaginative and opulent designs for luxurious private villas and public buildings, inspired by Italian Cinquecento art, made him a favorite of the Parisian and New…
There are festivals where you rush from one opening to the next, trying to see everything. And then there are festivals that end up looking back at you. For four days, from 18 to 21 June, in Łódź, Fotofestiwal fell into the latter category. For its 25th edition, the Polish festival chose to explore our relationship with animals, images and one another. An ambitious programme that could easily have descended…
As part of the celebrations marking the bicentenary of photography, Le BAL in Paris is dedicating its first-ever exhibition to a collection. Best known to the general public as the producer of every James Bond film since Moonraker (1979), Michael Wilson has, together with his wife Jane, assembled one of the world's most significant private photography collections. Since the establishment of the Wilson Centre for Photography in 1998, this corpus…
Dashwood Projects presents Last Call Vol. 1 by Tyrell Hampton from June 26 to July 18, with an opening and book signing today, Thursday the 25th, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Photographer Tyrell Hampton announces Last Call Vol. 1, a new book collecting photographs made between 2016 and 2018. Shot during Hampton’s first years in New York, Last Call documents a generation coming of age through friendship, creativity, and…
Ithaque, in collaboration with Ava Gallery, presents Becoming, a solo exhibition by Iranian artist Atoosa Alebouyeh, bringing together two major photographic series: Me in my point of View (2016) and The Unstable Face (2020). Through these two bodies of work, Atoosa Alebouyeh develops a reflection on the construction of identity and the intimate experience of a body in flux. The exhibition traces a path in which the self-portrait becomes a…
Following four years of residency along the Rhône and Loire rivers, Chloé Colin and Loïc Xavier present the restitution phase of their work. Each has developed a singular approach to the river, through artistic devices combining photography, printmaking and video. In her cycle DIVAGATION(S), Chloé Colin explores the relationships between water, memory and the transformations of living matter, drawing on the landscapes of the Upper Rhône between Lyon and Geneva,…
In her most recent series exhibited at La Vetrina in Venice, Karla Hiraldo Voleau explores what it means to be a teenager in Italy today. So far, Karla Hiraldo Voleau has travelled to Roma, Venezia, Reggio Emilia, and Sardegna to create a portrait of the young generation and their relationship to love and intimacy, as to friendship, and to understand their beliefs, hopes and worries. Made of photographs, texts and…
Archives - June 25, 2015 The Great Terror wasn’t the largest massacre ever committed by a state against its own people. Tomasz Kizny is a Polish journalist and photographer. He founded Dementi, a collective of freelance photographers, following the implementation of martial law in Poland in 1981. He documented the “solidarity” strikes in Poland, as well as the collapse of the communist bloc. He is the author of the books…
Archives - June 25, 2021 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eugène Atget, Marc Riboud, Laurence Sackman, the Museum of Decorative Arts; The photographic summer is going to be sumptuous in Paris! Stay in Paris in July and August: Paris will be yours. Still empty but open unlike the last 18 months in a cell! And after Henri's, visit Atget's exhibition; both are sublime! - Jean-Jacques Naudet About two generations separate the two photographers.…
Lectoure announces its photography programme for summer 2026. In contrast to sensationalist media imagery, the artists featured this year in Lectoure’s L’été photographique each focus in their own way on what surrounds us but remains unseen, or which we no longer see because it is so familiar. They take up the line of inquiry explored in Georges Perec’s *L’Infra-ordinaire* (1989), when he writes: ‘What really happens, what we experience, the…
For its sixth edition, OD and its international jury made up of gallery owners, exhibition curators and artists are looking for the most promising new talents from around the world. Over the years, the Prize has become a springboard for OD and its jury: seven of the last nine artists presented at international art fairs in London, Paris and Rotterdam were discovered thanks to this prize. Deadline: August 11,…
What if, just for a moment, you became the lead character in your own film? At Studiorama, every session is designed to be a real film set. Choose your storyline, your aesthetic, your atmosphere. Let the camera do the rest. Thriller What if you became Bond. James Bond? A gun, a vintage tape recorder, a hat, soft lighting... And there you have it! Romantic comedy A bouquet of flowers, a…
VistaPrint has teamed up with Paris Match to celebrate everyday photography and human connections. As a partner of the Paris Match Photography Grand Prix, VistaPrint is supporting the ‘A Glimpse into Family Life’ category. To mark the bicentenary of photography, VistaPrint announces its partnership with Paris Match as part of the first edition of the Paris Match Photography Grand Prix ‘A Glimpse of Our Times’, an annual national competition open…
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