Peter Van Agtmael Prix W. Eugene Smith and Ed Ou Prix Bayeux 2012

	Thursday18.10.2012
	Awards Peter Van Agtmael : W. Eugene Smith Grant The W. Eugene Smith Grant ceremony was held yesterday in the large auditorium of the School of Visual Arts, New York, filled to capacity for the occasion with photographers and publishers. The Grant in Humanistic Photography worth 30,000 dollars - almost the... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Festival Prix Bayeux 2012: Diary of Michel Puech Aris Messinis, from the AFP, won the Prix Photo for his photographs taken during the Battle of Sirte, which took place in Libya in October 2011. Ed Ou, from Reportage by Getty Images, was awarded the prize for young photojournalists in recognition of his series on Egypt. The 19... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Awards Prix Bayeux-Calvados 2012, Ed Ou Barely 26 years old, Ed Ou is one of the most promising members of Reportage by Getty Images. He just received the ‘Young Reporter’ prize at the 19th edition of the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for war correspondents. The jury was presided over byGil... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Michel Maiofiss Les bistrots Maïofiss has the fabulous gift of the griot. He conjures myth out of the mundane, giving a spark of immortality to the characters he reduces to two dimensions through the magic of photography. The story is less important than the meaning, and the extras in the sinister ... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Editorial & Business 7 jours d'Agence Echo It's rare enough that we should mention it here. It is not often, in this economy, with the current conditions of the editorial market that a new photo agency is born. Created this year (yes, in 2012) and named ECHO by photographer, manager & a photojournalism professor Gianmarco Maraviglia, i... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition São Paulo: The Walter Firmo Collection Until October 31, the Ímã Foto Galeria will be exhibiting works taken from the archives of Walter Firmo, one of Brazil’s most important photographers. The event brings together nearly 30 images covering the photographer’s career from the slums of Rio to the pr... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Festival Art Elysées Paris Art Fair 2012 : GadCollection Landscapes are living ecosystems and environments. They have existed well before, and will hopefully be here way beyond the time we are here. When taking photographs, time and space seem hard for me to measure. Whenever I shoot a ‘quality’ image, I know it. At those mo... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Festival Paris Art Fair Art Elysées 2012 This week is dedicated to Contemporary Art in Paris. From the Grand Palais to the Marais, not less than five art fairs settle themselves in the Parisian capital. The sixth edition of Art Elysees opens today, on the Champs Elysées avenue, until October 22. By focusing on modern art, t... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Festival Art Elysées 2012 : Galerie Kandler Dédipix is a French term for an Internet phenomenon where users take nude or semi-nude photos of themselves, write a pseudonym on their body, and then post the photograph to their blogs, where other users (the average age is 14) leave comments. Behind this obsession with f... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Festival Art Elysées 2012 : Galerie Baudoin Lebon Born on 1st February 1945 in Paris. After studying science and ten years devoted to painting, Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand uses the photographic tools since 1980. His works, strictly analogical, black and white silver technique, are characterized with a playful imagination, co... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Festival Art Elysées 2012 : Galerie Berthet-Aittouares Antoine Schneck travels to the remotest villages of Africa, China and India in search of “authentic” faces for his portraits, which he takes against a black background, concealing the decor, expression, and relationship with the outside world. The faces... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	In the archives of... Life: Carl Mydans on William Faulkner There is no assurance that when people say no to a picture, that they really mean no. But there are people who just hate to sit in front of a camera. I'm one of them. William Faulkner is another. He proved to be one of the best and dearest subjects I ever had. Still, it was diffi... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Strasbourg : Du Zhenjun and Vincent Debanne The works of Du Zhenjun and Vincent Debanne both draw our attention toward urban landscapes, their limits, and where they are headed. In the center of the city and its excesses, man feels disoriented, helpless against this environment which... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Book Micheline Dullin: Sihanouk’s Cambodia With a predilection for the square format of her Rolleiflex, which allow her photographs and compositions to exude their natural elegance, Micheline Dullindocuments major building sites. It is in these photographs, including those taken from a helicopter, that... 18.10.2012[ read full story ]
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