Après le succès de Paris Photo 2010 et ses 38 000 visiteurs, l'édition 2011 de Paris Photo (du 10 au 13 novembre) s'annonce riche en évolutions. Déplacé du Carousel du Louvre à la nef du Grand Palais, accueillant une vingtaine de galeries de plus que l'année précédente ( le nombre total passe à 111), l'évènement sera axé, d'une part, sur la photographie africaine, d'autre part sur quatre éléments de programmation pérennes : les acquisitions récentes d&#...

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With Carla van de Puttelaar, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tacita Dean, Rineke Dijkstra, Douglas Gordon, Paul Graham, Ingar Krauss, Erwin Olaf, Albrecht Tübke and others
from 12 March 2009 till 03 May 2009

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Erwin Olaf
In his portrait photographs Amsterdam-based artist Erwin Olaf plays games with the idea of cold reality versus cruel artifice. His recent imagery is based on American aristocracy in the early 1960s. It blends journalistic details with staged emotions. In Grief, Olaf's latest series currently on show, solitary figures brood in tearful silence, capturing that precise moment when innocence, hope and joy were all lost. Nothing is as it seems and in Erwin's recreated world, nothing is real.

"Grief is a series about the choreography of emotion, and what you can create in the studio," says Erwin Olaf. &q...

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The world of Turkish photographer Nazif Topçuoglu is a prohibited place where well-groomed high school girls in miniskirts perform adult fantasies with unusual props such as books, compass and microscopes.

Sheltered in the cushioned backrooms, boudoirs and libraries of nineteenth century-like mansions, they inspect one another, punish each other or just enjoy a moment of intimacy. Cast as domineering or submissive, sadist or masochistic, they however cannot pain each other -for, we get the intuition that they soon will swap roles.

In Topçuoglu's world, Foucault's power-knowledge nexus has turne...

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