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...
by Nicolas Genty | Jun 12, 2026 | Blog
I finally plucked up the courage and updated my website. I did it all by myself, without any technical support, and with the nagging fear that I might irreparably break something along the way. The result is there, and it works!” So what is new? Updated Menus adding a...
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...
