by Nicolas Genty | Dec 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
I discovered the photos of Didier Bizet by chance, while browsing the emails I get from “L’oeil de la photographie”. I particularly fell in love with his “the big Lie” series of photographs of North Korea. As he puts it, it is “a...
by Nicolas Genty | Dec 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Ed van der Elsken is back, at the Rijksmuseum this time. I always wondered how he “treated” Japan during his stays there in 1959-1960 and then in the second half of the 1980’s before his death in 1990. I was curious to see his “blessed...
by Nicolas Genty | Dec 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
I went to the Rijskmuseum in Amsterdam for yet another van der Elsken exhibit. And I got to discover Wim Diepraam as well. Diepraam left a significant legacy of documentary pictures of The Netherlands in the 50’s and later. A country that does not exist anymore....
by Nicolas Genty | Nov 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Steve McCurry continues to enchant me with his pictures. He has remained “in search of elsewhere” the title of his most recent book. Papua New Guinea, 2017 ©Steve McCurry Italy, 2011 ©Steve McCurry India, 1999 ©Steve McCurry
by Nicolas Genty | Nov 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
I never knew about the quaint museum of Hilversum, located in the beautiful building that used to be the townhall of the city. A large exhibition of photos by Belgian artist Lieve Blancquaert titled ‘Circle of Life’ makes use of the circular space on three...
