by Nicolas Genty | Jun 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
When an announcement is made that a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, of two World Press Photos of the Year, and of the Robert Capa Award for Courage is going to have an exhibition in Paris, the occasional traveler that I am, making to good use an encounter with a dear...
by Nicolas Genty | Jun 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Dutch photographer Dagmar van Weeghel is central in the Alexine Tinne exhibition at The Hague Historical Museum. She revisited Tinne’s travels with her own work and her master photographs are also exposed, alongside those of Tinne. This work, in...
by Nicolas Genty | Jun 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Alexine Tinne was special. Educated in the best circles of The Hague, with or despite her father’s wealth accumulated on slave trade, she grew up riding horses, playing the piano and becoming a “proper” 19th century lady. After the early passing of...
by Nicolas Genty | Jun 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Alex Timmermans calls himself an alchemist. A mixture between technique and magic, art and precision of an intricate work. He works with the old fashioned wet plate process, collodium photography. To tell us his stories with a special quirky humour, he will spend long...
by Nicolas Genty | May 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Haute Photographie: a new concept in a new location in the old harbour of Rotterdam. What’s better than a large refreshed former warehouse with high ceilings to exhibit photographs? Keilepand is not easy to find but worth the trip. The Haute Photographie event...
by Nicolas Genty | May 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Brandt’s brand was to some extend, but not only, “dark and crisper”. He tried to explain it in a letter: “There are certainly no rules governing how a photograph should be printed. This really changes from picture to picture. Some should be dark and muddy, some very...
