by Nicolas Genty | Sep 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Staying in Provence was a good occasion to discover the newly opened Centre of Photography of Mougins. A marvellous building in a remarkable town on the heights of Cannes. The first exhibition displayed here on the two levels of the building is “1001” by Isabel Muñoz....
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Valérie Couteron spent time at the Protéor plant in Seurre, near Dijon, France to take portraits of the employees. Ordinary men and women engaged in an extraordinary work: designing protheses for handicapped people. Couteron seized their profound humanity, mainly...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Another coup de ❤️ for the poignant photographs of Catherine Leroy and respect for the woman. She was a war photo reporter with an incredible story, forgotten for too long and far less recognised for her tremendous value than her male counterparts. Henri Huet, Larry...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Photography is all about how you look at things. One subject, two different pairs of eyes and you end up with very different pictures. Both Henri Cartier-Bresson and Fred Stein strolled around cities, whether it was Paris or New York, with their eyes wide open and a...
by Nicolas Genty | Aug 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Another late and wonderful discovery for me at the Joods historisch museum of Amsterdam: the photos of Fred Stein. From Dresden to Paris and then New York, Fred Stein enchants us with his account of his time, mainly through the 1930’s and 1940’s. Wandering...
by Nicolas Genty | Jul 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
The giant of Dutch photography Eddy Posthuma de Boer passed away today, at age 90. He was a photographer with love for the people he was portraying. We were enchanted by his work when we first discovered it last year. I had the chance to see a large exhibit at...
