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The Best of Blind
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.
JONAS CUENIN
March 23, 2025
Monday February 17, 2025
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.
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• The everlasting enigma of Roger Ballen
• Dawoud Bey: Inner Life
• Milan by Paolo Ventura
• Masahisa Fukase: The Cat’s Pajamas
• Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside
• Eliot Porter: Birds Large and Small
• Indescribable Otherness
• Layers of a Fairy Tale
• Capitalism’s Urban Poetry
• Alex Voyer: An Eye as Wide as the Ocean
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To encounter the South Africa-based American photographer Roger Ballen means to experience the uncanny nature of his photographs. The artist enjoys showing them to you in an easygoing, straightforward manner over lunch, which he barely touches, choosing instead to reveal some of the secrets of his art…
By Jean-Baptiste Gauvin
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In 2021, Street Portraits brought together Dawoud Bey’s portraits of African Americans taken between 1988 and 1991 in various towns around the US.
By Brigitte Ollier
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How the Italian artist found a muse of fact and fantasy in Milan.
By Elyssa Goodman
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The Japanese photographer, a self-proclaimed cat lover, subverts our vision of domestic felines by himself becoming a pussy cat in Sasuke, published by Atelier EXB in 2021.
By Brigitte Ollier
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In 2022 in Paris, American photographer Gregory Crewdson unveiled "Eveningside", his latest black-and-white series, produced between 2020 and 2022.
By Benoit Dupuis-Tordjeman
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A pioneer of nature color photography, American Eliot Porter got interested in birds very early on. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX, was devoting in 2020 an exhibition to the photographer’s subject of choice.
By Jean-Baptiste Gauvin
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Capitalism’s Urban Poetry
With “Image Cities”, Anastasia Samoylova began a reflection on the city, the realism of images and, more broadly, our contemporary lives. A work exhibited for the first time in France at Paris Photo in 2023.
By Iris Mandret
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For over eight years, the photographer Alex Voyer has been sailing the seven seas in search of beautiful subjects: the sperm whale, the great white shark, the leopard seal… He makes subtle, elegant underwater portraits of marine fauna, freediving as deep as 30 meters.
By Jean-Baptiste Gauvin
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The Musée d’Orsay in Paris showcased some twenty portraits the novelist-photographer Émile Zola made of his daughter and model, Denise.
By Brigitte Ollier
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With "Silent Loss", Dutch photographer llona Langbroek narrates her family history in the former Dutch East Indies with infinite melancholy. A series presented by the Bildhalle gallery, to be seen at Paris Photo in 2023.
By Michaël Naulin
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