Once a month, Blind invites you to delve into its archives. It's a chance to (re)discover memorable and often timeless articles and images.

•  Bruce Gilden: “It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect, It’s Organized Chaos”
•  Simen Johan: Wilderness stories
•  Pieter Hugo, Live from Mexico
•  Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture
•  In Bolivia, Some New Superheroes
•  Remembering Bill Ray
•  A Brief Story of Homoerotic Photography in America, Part I
•  A Brief Story of Homoerotic Photography in America, Part II
•  Peter van Agtmael Chronicles the Frontlines of War in the 21st Century
•  Steven Smith, The Call of the Suburbs
•  The Raw Poetry of an American Road Trip

Bruce Gilden: “It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect, It’s Organized Chaos”

In December 2019, Bruce Gilden frequented one of Palermo’s most typical markets, Ballarò, for about a week. Attracted by the genuine rough faces of its vendors and buyers he spent hours strolling its narrow streets.

By Christina Cacouris

Simen Johan: Wilderness Stories

Simen Johan creates baroque fictions populated by animals and wild, picturesque settings. With an exhibition at Yossi Milo gallery in New York, his world became darker and more unsettling as human presence, although absent from these photographs, seems to paradoxically lurk in the background.

By Hugo Fortin

Pieter Hugo, Live from Mexico

A book published by Editorial RM and an 2020 exhibition at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York showed Pieter Hugo’s seminal encounter with Mexico.

By Laurence Cornet

Jim Marshall: Show Me the Picture

in 2019, the images of music star photographer Jim Marshall were published in a book by Chronicle Books.

By Bill Shapiro

In Bolivia, Some New Superheroes

A book produced collectively by a community of shoe shiners in Bolivia and the photographer Federico Estol spotlights an undervalued profession through a dialogue between contemporary art photography and social activism.

By Elsa Leydier

Remembering Bill Ray

When he died in 2020, the celebrated LIFE magazine photographer left behind iconic images of Marilyn, Elvis, JFK, and dozens of others who shaped the 1950s and ‘60s.

By Bill Shapiro

The Raw Poetry of an American Road Trip

The French photographer Théo Giacometti takes us around Las Vegas, to the edges of canyons and across endless plains dotted by roadside motels. In the background: a love story.

By Théo Giacometti

On the Road to Arbaeen, Home to the World’s Largest Pilgrimage

hotographer Aline Deschamps photographed the world’s largest religious gathering in Arbaeen, Iraq.

By Aline Deschamps

Inside the Fervor of Marseille Football Fans

Former editor-in-chief of L’Equipe Magazine, now a gallery owner specialized in sports photography, Jean-Denis Walter writes a regular column for Blind. Today, on the occasion of the OM – PSG football match, he talks about an unrecognized series of photos: “Velodrome, the twelfth man”.

By Jean-Denis Walter