Diana Markosian’s Spellbinding Portrait of a Family, Drama, and Love

EXHIBITION

Diana Markosian’s Spellbinding Portrait of a Family, Drama, and Love

In “Santa Barbara,” Diana Markosian explores her mother’s life-changing decision to move to Southern California after the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

By Miss Rosen

EXHIBITION

Ernst A. Heiniger: A Pioneer of Swiss Photography

An avant-garde photographer and a documentary filmmaker at Walt Disney’s, Ernst A. Heiniger has fallen into obscurity. Mounting a major retrospective, the Swiss Photo Foundation in Winterthur is paying tribute to the artist.

By Laure Etienne

BOOK

My Two Dads: Intimate Portraits of Gay Fatherhood in America

In a new book, Bart Heynen creates a tender portrait of fatherhood liberated from the strictures of cisheteronormative archetypes.

By Miss Rosen

EXHIBITION

Between Reality and Fiction, Crossed Existences at the Hangar in Brussels

The Hangar, Brussels' center for photography, presents the work of French artist Véronique Ellena and eight Belgian photographers around the theme "Look At My Story." There is often but a thin line between fiction and reality, as we will see below.

By Sophie Bernard

EXHIBITION

Abbas Kiarostami, the Photographer

Spotlighting the importance of photography in his work, Centre Pompidou in Paris devotes a vast retrospective to Abbas Kiarostami, a major figure in the new wave of Iranian cinema. 

By Sabyl Ghoussoub

STILL AVAILABLE IN OUR LAB SECTION

ADVICE

How to Edit a Documentary Photo Story

Editing can be the hardest and most frustrating process involved in working on a photo project, but ultimately it’s the very moment the story, the atmosphere and the message you intend to convey take shape.By Gaia Squarci

TUTORIAL

Portraits in an Uncontrolled Environment, by Sebastián Liste

In this 4-chapter course, Sebastián Liste, from NOOR, will give you his advice on taking portraits in an uncontrolled environment, in the heart of protests in Catalonia, Spain.By NOOR Images

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Unseen Photographs from Robert Frank’s The Americans

Robert Frank’s magnum opus, 

The Americans

, chronicled the photographer’s journey across the United States between 1955 and 1957 as he sought to capture America in all her glory. Of the 28,000 images he took during this three-year period, a total of only 83 photographs were published in 

The Americans

.

By Christina Cacouris

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