Navarre
A village alive in autarky.
With its gardeners and gardens, its apples for apple cider, its baker's ovens, its cooks, its painters and its fashion workshops.
We are in Normandy, at the beginning of the century, this place was called the psychiatric asylum...

How can we describe the career of Albert Watson ?
We could tell you about his 250 covers for Vogue or the fact that he has made a large number of photos for blockbuster movies such as The Da Vinci Code or Kill Bill or that he has produced over 650 television commercials...

Life
A Shower
Two or even three of us !
Long live the Spa
My body is an island touched by this torrent
My buttocks tender and innocent...

Obviously Laurent Robillard's photos disturb. By revisiting the still life, he obliges the spectator to face the most mysterious of his fates. His carcasses staged in an esthetic light confront the horror with the beauty.

Born in 1954 Ton van Zeijl grew up in a small town called Kwintsheul in the west of Holland. On his 17th birthday he left school to find a job, but 7 years later he found out that this chosen path wasn't his future. While working as deputy manager at the Minister of Defense print shop he began taking courses at the Academy of Photography in The Hague.

Air France, "Field", "Jetty" & "Tree House"
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Tele2, "Office"

John Vink studied photography at the School of Fine Arts of the Cambre in Belgium at the end of the 1960’s and became an independant photographer in 1971. Following on from this he joined the agency VU in 1986, where he was awarded the Eugene Smith prize for a series of pictures on the subject of water management in Sahel.

The printing process, callotype, was chosen to match the subject of a traditional gypsy circus. This photographic process uses iron salts with silver nitrate while working from a black and white film negative. It gives the prints a quality that is in the 'feel' of this entertainment that has in it the origins of the modern circus.

Working with natural materials and high-tech pigments as well as the latest software, Artist Orcalyde mixes science and art in fascinating experiments. Her Graphically Modified Organisms (GMO), DNA, UFOs are here for you to discover this week in Digital Art.

Virgin Mobile, "SMS Illimités" Campaign
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Nokia N93, "Film Set"

His passion, his friends, in fact his entire life,  moves us.
Don't miss our second documentary dedicated to Douglas Kirkland, a 
true master of photography.

In the city of Ruffec (France) where he was born in 1962, Pierre Delaunay has been a professional photographer for 25 years. Like Obelix, he was affected by the magic potion « révélateur »  (revelation) because his parents were also photographers.

As well sculptor and photographer, André Kim places, in the street, the small characters which he creates and proposes a poetic reading of the urban space. Interview.

In proposing a new vision of his country, far from those of Carnivals, beaches and of sexy women, the Brazilian Julio Bittencourt is a real discovery in the world of photographic reporting.
Soon, his celebrity will pass new frontiers, as it was he who won the prestigious 2007 Oskar Barnack Leica prize, during the « Rencontres d'Arles Festival».