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...
by Nicolas Genty | May 1, 2026 | Blog
I borrowed the title of the 1996 film for this entry, although the topic is very different. Julia Kochetova is Ukranian. A young artist, she lives through the war on a daily basis and she takes photographs of those making it and suffering from it. Her photos are a...
by Nicolas Genty | May 1, 2026 | Blog
Martin Parr has parted last year from the mankind he spent a lifetime tracking and photographing, in all its splendour and misery, its absurdity and tenderness. No one focused so much on the marvels of modern life like he did: the overcrowded beaches, the tourist...
by Nicolas Genty | Apr 30, 2026 | Blog
Visiting the WorldPress Photo exhibition at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam has become a yearly tradition for me, with various companions, but always with the same punch in the gut. It is an occasion to absorb more human misery, tears, blood and sweat; a significant and...
