Yutaka Takanashi is a revolutionary photographer best known for his fascination with the Tokyo during the 60s and 70s. Featuring the city in all it’s urban glory, his exhibition at the Henri Cartier-Bresson foundation holds the two contrasting …
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Eloge de la suite 2
There’s way too many galleries in Paris, specially on the Marais side but very few that actually captivate you. Hidden halfway through the Rue Saint Martin, just when trying to scape from the noisy and touristy Beaubourg square …
Oil @ The Photographers’ Gallery – London
“In 1997 I had what I refer to as my oil epiphany. It occurred to me that the vast, human-altered landscapes that I pursued and photographed for over twenty years were only made possible by the discovery of …
↓ Oodee first launches
Last Saturday Pieter Hugo introduced the launching of his book (with Linda Melvern) ‘Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide”. A close look at the landscape 10 years after the genocide. A harsh & still shocking set of photographs presented as a forensic exposition of tragedy that “spares us the burden of judgment – but confronts us instead with far more frightening questions about our own humanity”.
taken from Pieter Hugo's Rwanda 2004 - Vestiges of a Genocide
But the presentation the day before @Paris-Photo Fair and that Saturday @LeBal brought not only Hugo’s pieces but the whole artillery of newly opened & London-based independent publishing house “Oodee“. Contemporary photography presented in limited edition zine-style publications like their PointOfView series.
Oodee's POV Female at Offprint Paris
These first series focus on five London-based female photographers, like those of Charlotte Player and her amazing recap on gypsy boys and girls and their ponies (she’s got a solo exhibition @ Madrid’s Espacio Valverde till Dec 5th….). Future editions of POV Female should feature female photographers based in Paris, Tokyo and New York…
Charlotte Player - Gypsy Gold