For several years Didier Ben Loulou has been working in Athens, and this new series of photographs is the result. Although his approach is firmly anchored in reality, he remains faithful to his initial sources of inspiration, refusing to work in a hurry and rejecting the idea of reportage.
For several years he has travelled through this cradle of civilization searching for remains of ancient Attica and showing them in parallel with the realities of modern Greece. He includes pollution, destruction, and mass immigration in pictures that focus on both ancient ruins and new territories where immigrants rub shoulders with travelling people. Hundreds of thousands of people have no choice but to settle on the periphery of Athens, bartering and doing odd jobs to survive and providing an easy, interchangeable workforce for the local mafia. They represent a growing parallel population that is constantly changing and hard to identify, both in human and economic terms. These people, uprooted by war, famine, and global warming, are society’s new nomads. These “travellers”, migrants made into refugees by the march of History, mix with the poorest and most underprivileged city-dwellers. A radical, profound social rift has opened up with dizzying speed; its face is one of shame, homelessness and rootlessness, and its victims’ only real possession is a body that can be used by others and then thrown away. The city of Athens, a cradle of civilisation and culture, has become a kind of paradigm of this radical social transformation.
Didier Ben Loulou has taken Athens as a new field for social enquiry, exploring the transformation of people and bodies into mere commodities and the themes of exile, rootlessness, and poverty. As in Jaffa (1983/1989) and Jerusalem (1991/2006), he relentlessly challenges the founding myths of cities by showing how they reflect the uncertainties and fragilities of the modern world.
L’exposition « Le Monde comme il bouge » invite le public à explorer les univers d’artistes d’origines diverses. La Brasserie propose de réunir des œuvres sensibles aux bouleversements du monde. Les dérèglements d’origine économique, politique, culturelle, sociale ou climatique engagent ...
These photographs are a small selection from the first ten years of Erich Hartmann´s photographic career which began in l946 when he arrived in New York City after Army service on the battlefields of France and Belgium during World War II.
He never tired of walking the streets of New York, always with camera in hand a...
2012, année de Marilyn ! Pour célébrer cette femme d'exception, Olivier lorquin a sélectionné avec Bert Stern, l'auteur de "La dernière séance", un ensemble de photos qu'il est heureux de présenter à Banyuls-sur-mer.
L' AD-Galerie présente la collection de portraits du photographe Hiroshi Watanabe à partir du samedi 26 mai 2012.
Cinq portfolios consacrés au portrait constituent le thème de l'exposition d'Hiroshi Watanabe. Trois portfolios représentent un témoignage direct de...
Do you remember the first time ? features works by contemporary photographers Olivo Barbieri, Jim Goldberg, Nathan Harger, Adam Jeppesen and Paolo Ventura, presented for the first time in London exclusively at Atlas Gallery. Many of these exemplary contemporary artists have been exhibited internationally, and are included in museum and distinguished private collections worldwide, bu...
Neuf photographes, actuellement en troisième année d’étude de photographie dans une école d’arts appliqués – MJM Graphic Design – ont développé un projet personnel sur un an, en vue de cette exposition. Leur travail et la démarche d’accompagnement ont concouru vers un seul but :...
Organisée par le Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône, sous le commissariat de Véronique Baton, historienne d’art, et d’Agnès Barruol, conservatrice en chef du patrimoine, l’exposition « Se souvenir de la mer » se déroulera du 23 juin au 31 octobre 2012 au domaine départ...
La Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Cachan se déroule du 29 mai au 30 juin 2012. De nombreux artistes à découvrir autour du thème de l'altérité.
Le triptyque "Sortie Fauve" de Francesca Di Bonito a été sélectionné.
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