by Nicolas Genty | Sep 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Staying in Provence was a good occasion to discover the newly opened Centre of Photography of Mougins. A marvellous building in a remarkable town on the heights of Cannes. The first exhibition displayed here on the two levels of the building is “1001” by Isabel Muñoz....
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Valérie Couteron spent time at the Protéor plant in Seurre, near Dijon, France to take portraits of the employees. Ordinary men and women engaged in an extraordinary work: designing protheses for handicapped people. Couteron seized their profound humanity, mainly...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Another coup de ❤️ for the poignant photographs of Catherine Leroy and respect for the woman. She was a war photo reporter with an incredible story, forgotten for too long and far less recognised for her tremendous value than her male counterparts. Henri Huet, Larry...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Photography is all about how you look at things. One subject, two different pairs of eyes and you end up with very different pictures. Both Henri Cartier-Bresson and Fred Stein strolled around cities, whether it was Paris or New York, with their eyes wide open and a...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Another late and wonderful discovery for me at the Joods historisch museum of Amsterdam: the photos of Fred Stein. From Dresden to Paris and then New York, Fred Stein enchants us with his account of his time, mainly through the 1930’s and 1940’s. Wandering...