Editorial Photo

Alain Pons

2008-03-03T08:45:54Z

Photographer Alain Pons has released a serie of photo guides of Tanzania, Namibia, Kenya, Botswana, and India. His models are tigers, bears, oryx and elephants. He is one of six animal photographers (Tony Crocetta, Vincent Munier, Michel et Christine Denis-Huot, Dominique Delfino) showing their work int the exhibition "Latitude Animal" in Drancy (France ) until march the 30th.

Michał Szlaga

2007-11-24T16:08:17Z

Michał Szlaga lives and works in Gdansk.
"Gdansk Shipyard has always been my biggest interest: since 2002 I have been taking pictures to show the changes it is going through, its workers and beautiful architecture."
He works for Newsweek Poland, Przekroj, Twój Styl...
Michał Szlaga

Travel Images

2007-11-24T15:48:54Z

Travel Images, a visual journey through Europe.

Visa pour l'image - Perpignan 2007

2007-09-13T09:22:50Z

France - Perpignan - until Septembre the 16th.
PR : Visa pour l'Image is now 19 years old.
And these nineteen years have been devoted to promoting a certain type of photography analyzing events around the world and going beyond the coverage presented by the traditional medial. Some people may find this attitude provocative, but that is the goal, as this is the only way of exposing and speaking out against so many negative forces in the world.

]]> Visa pour l'Image is an event supported by 4000 professionals working in photography and who come from many countries. 2007 will also be a milestone year, registering the three millionth visitor, and this gives an idea of the scope of the festival and the way it has grown.
Visa pour l'Image is not a festival of glitter, and it must continue to expose all the dramatic events which, unfortunately, still prevail and spread, while people so often turn their backs on a spirit of kindness or tolerance to fellow humans, doing so for any number of reasons (e.g. ethnic, religious, economic or political reasons, or simply for personal ambition). Every day more numbers are added to the already millions of victims - abused, forced to join groups or militia, or exterminated - so many innocent victims.
Visa pour l'Image also has its own battle to wage, defending a profession under threat with a wabe of restructuring, and defending individuals in cases of hostage-taking, an ever more prevalent threat, and sometimes reality, for photographers and journalists whose only fault has been to pursue the quest for truth out in the field, despite the dangers involved.
They are not reckless, they are simply doing their job, and we are duty bound to condemn any such violations of human rights and freedom. Visa pour l'Image asserts its commitment. The event is built around basic values of respect for individuals and individual rights. You may rest assured that we shall not shift from that position.
Guy Peron June 2007

Rencontres d'Arles 2007

2007-06-30T12:48:04Z

After the Depardon maelstrom, our joy at the success achieved (52,000 visitors, 20% of them foreign; overall, a 50% rise on 2005) was tinged with concerns: what future could we invent so as not to lose the impetus generated and the movement that had carried us along. This perplexity definitely has a starry-eyed “forever onwards and upwards” side to it.

]]> But is it an option to do otherwise, planning from year to year a sudden change of pace – a slow movement for the peace of body and soul, after a few crazy high-tempo numbers? Pierre Barouh writes on the discs of his Saravah label a pensée that has become famous: Il y a des années où l’on a envie de ne rien faire (“There are years when you feel like doing nothing”). Even for supporters of economic “degrowth”, this appealing suggestion is hard to implement. And you don’t know François Hébel and the Rencontres teams very well if you can imagine them ironing crumpled clothes while they wait for the next wedding. Listening to creators and aspiring to change and inventiveness calls for limitless impatience and the absolute need to encounter more people, to find out more, to look further, to see and see again, fearing only an unthinkable loss of desire and the familiar threat of a cruising speed fit for laidback holidaymakers. Continuing means doing more and being better, and only responding to the everlasting questions – “How will you manage? Is there life after Parr and Depardon? Who will be the new artistic director? Quick, a name!” – by inventing new pleasures and fresh discoveries. Thus it was in 2005, the year of a magnificent edition of the Rencontres, which François Hébel devised and set to music and images without relying on a deus ex machina. We didn’t fall back on our own strengths; rather, we adopted another kind of openness, more attentive to the diversity of artists’ eyes. And this kind of alternation is, we feel, suitable. So the 2007 Rencontres will be a well: the water of lives and cities, drawn from the creative springs. Whereas 2006 revolved around one man, his artistic siblings and the French-speaking world, 2007 will venture far afield, to China and India, in search of a living history of modern and contemporary times.

Arles (France)
From jully the 3rd until September the 16th
Source Rencontres d'Arles

Alive Exhibition - Paris

2007-05-22T18:21:57Z

“Alive” is not only beautiful pictures of animals. It is also about our lifestyles, with facts and figures, and presents the paths we should follow in the future. We are all responsible for our planet. It is up to each and every one of us to realize that we must act by taking some simple and obvious measures. Let us all adopt more meaningful everyday gestures. Now is the time.

Yann Arthus Bertrand

Paris - France
Quai Branly : from 21st may to 22nd august 2007

PHotoEspaña 2007

2007-05-21T12:10:23Z

Between May 30 and July 22, PHE07 will be offering more than 60 exhibitions with work by photographers and visual artists from 31 countries. Twenty-six international curators are involved in the programming of this edition.

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Bruce Davidson, Lynn Davis and Sylvia Plachy will all be exhibiting in Spain for the very first time. The Festival will include retrospectives on the work of Zhang Huan, Andres Serrano and Man Ray. Sebastião Salgado and Raymond Depardon also feature.

Neorealism. The new image of Italy, 1932-1960; Local. The end of globalisation; and Margins are the major group exhibitions on this year's programme.

PHotoEspaña will also include work by a new generation of young Spanish photographers at an exhibition of the NOPHOTO Collective and Five European perspectives. Spanish and Latin- American photography (Cinco miradas europeas. Fotografía española e hispanoamericana).

World Heritage Site Cuenca is one of the new Festival venues.

For its tenth anniversary, PHotoEspaña will be crossing the border: Le Jeu de Paume gallery is joining the official programme with an exhibition in Paris. The Arles Festival will also be staging an exhibition on Alberto García-Alix, organised by PHotoEspaña.

The exhibition rooms of the Teatro Circo Price, the BBVA and the Instituto Cervantes are set to make their Festival début. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Biblioteca Nacional and the Fundación Canal are also taking part in the Official Section.

PHE Encounters (Encuentros PHE) will bring more than 50 international specialists to Madrid to analyse the present and future of photography. Campus PHE will be organising workshops in Aranjuez with Peter Beard, Isabel Muñoz, Gilles Peress, Anders Petersen, Eugenio Recuenco and others.

A particularly special event will also be descending on Madrid's famous arts district, “El Barrio de las Letras”. Photography Night will include slide projections and live music in the streets and squares of the Spanish capital.

The general catalogue will take the form of a dictionary featuring the 190 artists who have had their own exhibitions over the ten years of the Festival's history.

More at www.phedigital.com

Olivier Laban-Mattei

2007-04-08T10:13:57Z

AFP photographer Olivier Laban-Mattei has been awarded the 11th "Georges Bendrihem" prize for European political photography, for a picture of the French ruling UMP party chief and former interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy, talking to journalists during his party's summer conference in Marseille in September 2006.

AFP

Andreas Gursky

2007-03-19T09:34:55Z

If you’ve never seen Andreas Gursky ‘s giant photos, here is your chance. His work is to be seen in Munich’s Haus der Kunst until may the 13th

PMA 2007

2007-03-10T11:15:49Z

The leading international convention and trade show, PMA 07 hosts retail entrepreneurial memory makers from around the world, including photo retailers, professional photographers, mass merchandisers, professional labs, custom picture framers, and scrapbook retailers. The PMA 07 International Convention features more than 200 sessions, encouraging the discovery of more opportunities, professional development, and the inspiration to act on emerging trends. Further opportunities are found at the PMA 07 Trade Show, offering more picture-related products than any other event. PMA® members help people everywhere create, keep, display and share memories through pictures.

PMA 07 International Convention and Trade Show
March 8-11, 2007
Las Vegas Convention Center, South HAll
Las Vegas, Nevada USA

Peter Turnley

2007-03-03T17:15:15Z

Born in 1955 in Indianna (USA) he was 19 when he met Robert Doisneau and became his assistant. He did the front page of Newsweek forty times, with his coverage of big international events.

Peter Turnley

Jürgens Freund

2007-01-27T20:02:25Z

One of Jürgens Freund favourite ways to shoot the marine habitat is half over, half under - or split level photography.

Dive in his web site.

Mikhael Subotzky

2007-01-26T14:51:53Z

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.
Nelson Mandela

Mikhael Subotzky did, you can see his work in Berlin (Germany) at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

European Month of Photography

2006-10-30T09:56:31Z

Since its creation in 1980, the Month of Photography has played a pivotal role in making Paris a major centre for photography. The festival takes place in November every two years, and is only possible thanks to the committed involvement of cultural institutions and galleries all over Paris.

]]> Each edition of the Month of Photography is given a specific theme that provides inspiration for between 70 and 80 exhibitions, film screenings, round-table discussions and debates. This year's theme is the relationship between photography and the printed page.

In 2004, the festival gained a new international dimension thanks to the creation of the European Month of Photography, which grew from a desire to build a dynamic Europe-wide network promoting artistic exchange and innovative collaboration in the field of photography. Inaugurated two years ago in Berlin and Vienna, the network is expanding this year to include Bratislava, Moscow, Rome and Luxemburg.

The network's first joint project, an exhibition entitled "Mutations" ("Transformations"), takes as its theme the profound technological and artistic changes taking place in contemporary European photography.

Paris
Berlin
Moscow
Bratislava
Roma
Luxemburg
Vienna

Vincent Munier

2006-10-26T16:22:41Z

Long nights in wait... Unobtrusive approaches... Merging into the environment... Modestly step into the sanctuary of wildlife ...

Visit Vincent Munier's site.