by Nicolas Genty | May 24, 2026 | Blog
Icing on the cake at Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris, the exhibit of Jo Ractliffe was an unexpected bonus. Born in Cape Town in 1961, Ractliffe is a South African photographer widely respected yet still underappreciated. Emerging in the mid-1980s during apartheid, she...
by Nicolas Genty | May 19, 2026 | Blog
A Brit par excellence, Martin Parr spent his life documenting the glorious pettiness of his fellow countrymen and, beyond them, the whole of modern humanity. With his saturated colours and close-ups, he turned beach holidays, buffet lunches and tourist traps into...
by Nicolas Genty | May 19, 2026 | Blog
A poor play on words to introduce the work of a Great War photographer, Endre Friedmann, alias Robert Capa. The Musée de la Libération in Paris presents his unusual pathway from his birth in Budapest in 1913 to his death on a landmine in a field of Indochina in 1954....
by Nicolas Genty | May 18, 2026 | Blog
Sebastião Salgado has left us in 2025 for the endless photographic pastures of the great beyond, where the light is perfect and the subjects infinite, camera in hand, no doubt. He leaves behind an immense legacy, in work and in example. The Mairie de Paris, supported...
by Nicolas Genty | May 18, 2026 | Blog
“I don’t like portraits,” he said. “It’s not about portraits, it’s about stories,” I replied. “I don’t like portraits,” he said again. Dana Lixenberg has spent her already long career with the human being as...
