by Nicolas Genty | Dec 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
I knew Roger Ballen from his series of photographs and portraits taken in South Africa, collected in his work “Platteland” and depicting a forsaken white population. The portrait of this policeman (shown below) was priceless. I saw him exhibited in Ottawa,...
by Nicolas Genty | Dec 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
I discovered Randy Fokke on a famous Dutch television game program. A woman with a quiet strength and determination. Fokke is also an artist. Apart from acting, which she does professionally, she is also a photographer. Her website, titled “Listen to your eyes” is...
by Nicolas Genty | Dec 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
The pictures of New York by Alain Keler are simply exceptional! Somewhere between “The Americans” by Robert Frank and “America in Passing” by Henri Cartier-Bresson. He took his photographs in the early 1970’s while being down and out in NYC and trying to earn a...
by Nicolas Genty | Dec 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
On the side of the Vincent Mentzel exhibition, a few photographs of Marieke van der Velden were shown. The self-professed storyteller spent a Monday in Kabul in 2013 and shows us the life of the ordinary Afghani living their life, without that Talibans. With nothing...
by Nicolas Genty | Dec 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
On the side of the Mentzel exhibit, the curator had the great idea to present young talents. Joris van Gennip is one of them. He works for the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant and covered the Black Lives Matter demonstration in Paris in June 2020. Gripping contrast...
