by Nicolas Genty | Aug 14, 2025 | Blog
Beirut is one of these places on Earth doomed to collapse over a longer period of time. From “the Paris of the Middle East” to the derelict place it has become after a civil war of 15 years, multiple invasions of their Southern neighbour, the rise of a...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 14, 2025 | Blog
Lucas Foglia had an inspired and poignant concept for his series Constant Bloom, presented at the Fotomuseum Den Haag: to follow the migration of Painted Lady butterflies and draw a parallel with the migration of people from Africa to Europe. For millions of years,...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 13, 2025 | Blog
Far from the idyllic vision of the West portrayed in so many Hollywood movies, Richard Avedon’s series “in the American West (1979–1984)” beautifully presented at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson shows the real people living in the American West....
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 13, 2025 | Blog
Sage comme une image, maybe loosely translated to “the picture of innocence”, that’s how a young woman at the turn of the 1970s was expected to be. Marie-Laure de Decker was anything but. She dreamed of becoming a photojournalist, and at the time, the...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 11, 2025 | Blog
As so often, it is happenstance that leads to new discoveries. In this case, while walking along the Hôtel de Ville of Paris, I stumbled upon the work of a photographer I had never heard of before: Nicole Lala. The exhibition Nicole Lala Photographs Her City presents...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 6, 2025 | Blog
A friend recently introduced me to a gem exhibited at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam: Photo League: New York 1936–1951. This exhibition tells the story of a group of photographers who documented everyday life in New York City during that period. As pioneers of street...
