by Nicolas Genty | Oct 24, 2022 | Blog
I saw Susan Meiselas photos for the first time when I was offered her book “Nicaragua” by a dear friend, as being something that would interest me. This was a wonderful gift indeed and I revisit regularly the powerful pictures of the fight of the local...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 18, 2022 | Blog
Contemplating Matthieu Ricard’s pictures is a Buddhist act in itself, like a moment of meditation. They provide calm, peace and a sentiment of wholeness. Matthieu Ricard, because of his position and his background, has a unique perspective on people and the...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 12, 2022 | Blog
Salgado continues to present his monumental work to the French public, and the French public seems to like it. This time, the work turns into a master work. With Aqua Mater, mother water (but for me also “water matters”), he gives an overview of some of...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 10, 2022 | Blog
Henri Cartier-Bresson experienced the landscape like no other: like a painter. From his position as a spectator, slowly getting filled with the general view at first, then discerning geometric lines and patterns, experiencing it, mentally drawing the lines, composing...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 8, 2022 | Blog
L’institut du Monde Arabe, a marvelous building in itself located on the shores of the Seine river, invites us to a travel back in time with Raymond Depardon, a well-known photographer and movie maker, a legend, and Kamel Daoud, a much younger Algerian writer....
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 8, 2022 | Blog
Centre Georges Pompidou features a large exhibition on the art and culture of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in Germany in the 1920’s and around August Sander. It is a temendous overview presented in France of this artistic trend. Apart from painting...
