by Nicolas Genty | Jul 18, 2026 | Blog
“I’m Still Standing” is the song Madeleine de Sinéty could have sung upon learning she would be sharing the galleries of the Musée du Jeu de Paume with a star like Elton John. It is no easy task to stand alongside a world-class collection built with thousands upon...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 16, 2026 | Blog
When the first name is Sir Elton, I’m not sure it’s fair to pretend you are at all going to try to keep up with those Johnses. The means are very different, no matter what. So different, in fact, that the Musée du Jeu de Paume has put together an...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 14, 2026 | Blog
Kazuo Kitai is one of Japan’s great photographers, although he remains relatively unknown in Europe and was entirely unknown to me. It was my friend L’Oeil Curieux, in one of his brilliant and very personal notes, who sparked my curiosity and led me to...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 14, 2026 | Blog
I wonder if it is already time to say Farewell to one of the greatest current photographers, Daido Moriyama an artist who has influenced many. He is now in his eighties, still working, still restless, and the question remains. The exhibition at the Fondation Henri...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 8, 2026 | Blog
The history of photography was built on the shoulders of giants. Ed van der Elsken is one of them. The Rijksmuseum exhibition in Amsterdam, under the title, Up Close, welcomes us with a lady pulling a tongue at us, or at him, and that sets the tone immediately. The...
by Nicolas Genty | Jun 25, 2026 | Blog
I had never heard of Erraid before today. It is a peninsula in a remote corner of Scotland, cut off from the mainland when the tide rises and becoming an island, sitting near the Isle of Mull. It is the kind of place the rest of the world seems to have agreed to leave...
