« In "Planet Lovigin" the artist takes the reader along in a fairy-tale road trip through his Russian homeland and the Caucasus region.

The pictures frequently sport the artist’s handwritten commentaries, or he furnishes them with ornaments.

Lovigin travels the planet, casting his ironic gaze on things and people, overdrawing a cliché here and there, and yet always displaying evident affection for his subjects.

The artist likes ...

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Leonard Freed était un photo journaliste et membre de Magnum depuis bien longtemps. Il voulait devenir peintre, mais commença à prendre des photographies en Hollande et découvrit une nouvelle passion. Il voyagea en Europe et en Afrique avant de retourner aux Etats-Unis où il intégra la New Shool et étudia avec Alexey Brodovitch, le directeur artistique de Harper's Bazaar. En 1958, il déménagea à Amsterdam pour photographier la communauté juive. Durant les années 60, il continua de travailler en free-lance et à voya...

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For over fifty years, internationally acclaimed photographer Eikoh Hosoe has been producing cutting edge works demonstrating a unique mastery of the photographic medium. Early on in his career he abandoned the documentary style prevalent in the post-war years and produced work that breathed a sense of experimentation and freedom into photography. By calling on mythology, metaphor and symbolism his images broke the bounds of traditional photography. Hosoe developed a unique style situated at the crossroads of several different art forms, combining photography with elements of theatre, dance, film and traditio...

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