19 September 2024 – Toujours plus Haute

The bar is set always higher by Roy Kahmann: It is with renewed pleasure that I visit the Haute Photographie events in Rotterdam or in Amsterdam. High quality display and presentation, top notch photographers, beautiful setup. I don’t pretend to like everything but...

14 September 2024 – Killip’s Humanity

I am still wondering how it is possible, after so many years of attending exhibitions, reading about it, and being immersed in it, the name of a contemporary photographer of importance remained completely unknown to me? And that of “one of the most influential British...

21 June 2024 – Across The Pacific

Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012), a Japanese photographer, may not be as well-known in France as Daido Moriyama, but he is nonetheless also a significant figure in the annals of Japanese photography. Ishimoto, who studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago from 1948...

19 June 2024 – Today’s France

“C’est beau, c’est grand, c’est généreux…. La France” said General de Gaulle in one of his speeches. 450 photographs, 200 photographers, a project spanning over three years, several state institutions involved: the Ministry of...

18 June 2024 – A full plate of Serrano

America is a difficult topic all together. The relationship is tumultuous. The feelings extreme: It can be love and at the same time, it can be hatred. America has produced the best and the worst. So how to go about “Portraits of America”? Is the plate...

18 June 2024 – New Shores

Stephen Shore is an American photographer who shows us the banality or the beauty of his country, as created by men and women, and seen from his car. Empty spaces, worn-down functional buildings, immense skies, wide highways, filling stations glowing at night,...