This June 2026, MPB — Europe’s leading camera reseller — partners with Blind and legendary American photographer Ralph Gibson for an unprecedented contest. Blind readers are invited to enter to win the Leica M Typ 246 owned and used by Gibson himself for the past 15 years with its Summilux 50mm lens, along with a […]
L’article Ralph Gibson: “Does the Camera Inform How You See, or Do You Inform…
Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish's magisterial photography collection is on view at the Jeu de Paume, in Paris. On the menu: sex, glamour, and reportage.
L’article Elton John, the Collector Who Stared Back est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
This spring, France discovered a child’s body in a grain silo, a run of dismissed complaints and hollow answers. At the same moment, an arm of the European Parliament deemed incest “out of reach” of its mission and ended its partnership with a photography festival. At Les Mesnuls, near Paris, the sixth edition of Les Mesnographies, running from June 6 to July 19, answers that silence with…
How do you represent the unspeakable? At a time when domestic violence remains widespread and inadequately addressed, photographers are bearing witness, passing on knowledge, and bringing the hidden to light. Through symbols, myths, and intimate narratives, their images are inventing new ways of making visible what has long been condemned to silence.
L’article Domestic Violence: Photography as a…
An icon of American photography, Ralph Gibson, born in 1939, has devoted seventy years to the secret language of the photograph, convinced that the image is self-sufficient and that to comment on it would be to betray it.
L’article Ralph Gibson, Dialogue with a Semiotographer est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
One is never too old to make a photograph, or to be one. Past sixty-five, the American photographer Scott Offen publishes his first book, Grace, shortlisted for the 2026 Rencontres d'Arles Book Award. In this black-and-white fairy tale, his wife is no longer a muse to be gazed upon: old and free, she does not merely sit for these images, she signs them.
L’article Scott Offen: The Wife Who Went…
Conducted by the Institut ACTE at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne at the request of the Réseau LUX, the survey examines 22 events, from Deauville to Lectoure. Its hypothesis is a bold one: these festivals carry out missions comparable to those of art centres, without the recognition that should come with them.
L’article What the First Study of Photography Festivals in France Reveals…
Through September 30, 2026, the small town of Le Guilvinec hosts the 16th edition of the photography festival La mer en partage (Sharing the Sea). Seventeen series, 300 images, five kilometres of open-air walk. And behind it all, a handful of retired volunteers who keep one of Brittany's finest photography events alive on public money alone.
L’article In Brittany, 300 Images and the West Wind…
Backrooms, drag shows, police raids. With Sex, Clubs, Dissent, published by MACK, British journalist Amelia Abraham gathers more than 200 photographs of queer celebration and chronicles half a century of hide-and-seek with the moral order.
L’article Amelia Abraham’s Wild Nights est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
Duane Michals died on June 9, 2026, in New York. He was 94. Photographer, poet, magician of vertiginous uncertainty, he was one of the most singular artists of the twentieth century. Blind says goodbye.
L’article Duane Michals, Poet of the Image, Dies at 94 est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
This June 2026, MPB — Europe’s leading camera reseller — partners with Blind and legendary American photographer Ralph Gibson for an unprecedented contest. Blind readers are invited to enter to win the Leica M Typ 246 owned and used by Gibson himself for the past 15 years with its Summilux 50mm lens, along with a […]
L’article Enter to Win Ralph Gibson’s Legendary Leica M Camera est apparu en…
Born the same year, in 1926, the poet Allen Ginsberg and the street photographer Vivian Maier left behind a body of work their era largely overlooked. On the occasion of their centenary, Howard Greenberg Gallery brings them together in an exhibition, "Notes from the Margins."
L’article Allen Ginsberg and Vivian Maier: Two Mavericks of Photography, Reunited in New York est apparu en premier sur…
An Irish folklore phenomenon turned photographic project. Enchanted patches of earth that disorient whoever dares to step on them. And what it feels like, in the end, to no longer recognise the world you thought you knew.
L’article Maria Lax, Losing One’s Way est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
An exhibition of pre-digital Hollywood press photography at MoMA reveals the airbrushed foundations of a celebrity image-making machine that has lost none of its grip.
L’article MoMA Pulls Back the Curtain on Celebrity Culture est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
For over a decade, she has celebrated the communities that Britain pushes to its edges, setting colour against their erasure. Sophie Green's book Tangerine Dreams goes on show in Bristol this spring.
L’article Sophie Green’s Britain Won’t Fade to Grey est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
Billions Served, the sixth book by New York photographer Richard Renaldi, halts the flow of America's fast-food joints and restores a face to those the chain renders invisible.
L’article Richard Renaldi, the Slow Camera of Fast Food est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
The first book by Czech photographer Edita Liessner, Short Stories on a Long Theme, turns color into an instrument of connection between adjacent solitudes.
L’article Edita Liessner, A Chromatics of Solitude est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
From June 1st to October 4th, 2026, the photo festival La Gacilly (France) marks the bicentenary of photography with 20 open-air exhibitions in the streets and gardens of the Breton village. This 23rd edition, titled "Photography: A French Adventure, 1826–2026", brings together masters of the medium and emerging talents around a simple question: two hundred years after Nicéphore Niépce, what…
At the photo festival La Gacilly (France), where his work Le Chant des Forêts (The Song of the Forests) is on show all summer, wildlife photographer Vincent Munier talks about his images, also available in Reporters Without Borders' new album 100 photos for Press Freedom. Patience, the wild, and a film that moved hundreds of thousands of viewers.
L’article Vincent Munier: “The Wild is Out There,…
An iconic French photographer of the pop years, Jean-Marie Périer is exhibiting this summer at the Festival Photo La Gacilly. At 85, he arrived with the same frenetic energy, the same wit, the same way of telling stories without ever stopping to catch his breath — and his photographs, which he comments on one by one on Instagram or during the opening of his exhibition, remain little bombs of…
How does one photograph today the way the Impressionists once looked? As the Normandie Impressionniste festival marks the centenary of Claude Monet's death with a 2026 edition turned toward contemporary creation, the work of photographer Jonathan Bertin emerges as a singular reinterpretation of that legacy.
L’article When Photography Looks at Painting, with Jonathan Bertin est apparu en premier…
For five winters, from 2015 to 2019, Sohrab Hura, an Indian photographer and Magnum member, travelled through one of the world's most militarised regions. His new book, Snow, published by MACK, lays bare a land at the quick as the snow melts away.
L’article Sohrab Hura, Beneath Kashmir’s Snow est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
From Flemish painters to fashion studios, the female body has crossed centuries of images. Often observed and represented by a gaze that desires — and which, in most cases, belongs to a man. Sometimes it is even fragmented, idealized, or controlled. The exhibition Woman by Women, on view at La Hune Library and gallery in […]
L’article Woman by Women: Five Views on the Female Body est apparu en…
Twenty-five disposable cameras sent to the front lines of Ukraine. In return: images, letters, objects. Sergey Melnitchenko stretched a fragile thread between the rear and the line of fire, and let soldiers become, for the length of a single roll of film, the authors of their own story.
L’article When Ukrainian Soldiers Photograph Their Own War est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
Published by MACK to accompany the exhibition the Morgan Library & Museum devotes to the photographer's archive, Hujar: Contact gathers his 5,783 contact sheets and two job books, acquired by the institution in 2013. The material reveals an artist in perpetual negotiation with himself, far from the handful of images for which he is known today.
L’article The Contact Sheet as Confession: Peter…
In Paris, the New York photographer projects fifty years of slideshows in which her tribe rubs shoulders with classical art and political activism in "This Will Not End Well."
L’article Nan Goldin, Looping Back, Looking Out est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
This is not a book about Tokyo. After two decades photographing the megalopolis, Pascal Greco abandons composition for instinct, accident and chance. Tokyo Flash is born of this deliberate derangement.
L’article Pascal Greco, Unframing Tokyo est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
For more than fifty years, Sarah Moon has been photographing what she is in the process of losing. London’s Michael Hoppen Gallery presents her fifth solo exhibition, with a selection of works from 2003 to today, including several previously unseen photographs.
L’article Sarah Moon: Instants Before Disappearance est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
At a time of ephemeral Instagram stories, Italian Story distils four decades of photography made with an 8x10 view camera, in a long-haul volume between the peninsula and America, published by L'Artiere.
L’article Andrea Modica’s Patient Gesture est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.
Only a few days remain to catch "Black Bricolage" in Paris. The first French exhibition devoted to the British photographer and journalist, it unfurls two decades of wandering across a Black Europe largely absent from official maps.
L’article Johny Pitts, Afropean Unhyphenated est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine.