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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.

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JONAS CUENIN
July 21, 2025

Monday July 21, 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.

Summary

In 2024, Viviane Sassen’s first retrospective in France at the Maison européenne de la Photographie covered three decades of transformative, multidisciplinary works. This vibrant, colorful journey spanned two levels and is complemented by a luxurious publication.

By Sophie Bernard

A book from the French photographer and published in 2019 captures a lifetime of wonder.

By Bill Shapiro

They are heirs to a time in suspension, and their images continue to enrich the world history of photography and our own impatient eyes. Blind shares the memories of some magical encounters with these virtuosos of the camera, soloists in black & white or in color, artists faithful to gelatin silver photography or bewitched by digital technologies. Today: Christer Strömholm, the underside of life.

By Brigitte Ollier

The photographer David Corio looks back at singers, musicians, and producers connecting London with Kingston.

By Miss Rosen

Released in February 2019, The Rainbow is Underestimated by Italian Piero Percoco, now out of print, still brightened up the Skinnerboox stand at Paris Photo. This unpresuming publication has met with great success, bringing us close enough to the rainbow to see it in all of its nuances, more Italian than ever.

By Anne Laurens

“Papami” is the nickname of the 80-year-old Cameroon photographer Michel Kameni. His work was recently rediscovered by a young French photographer, Benjamin Hoffman, who wishes to bring it to the public alongside another passionate of photography, Lee Shulman.

By Jean-Baptise Gauvin

Comrade Sisters is the first book to tell the story of the women of the Black Panther Party. The book contains 100 photographs by photographer Stephen Shames, along with interviews with 50 female party members and their families, organized by Erika Huggins, a former leader of the Black Panther Party. Today, the issues and solutions raised by the Black Panther Party are just as relevant as when the party was founded in Oakland, California, in October of 1966.

By Robert E. Gerhardt

A documentary shows how photography has united the transgender community in Argentina and allowed them to proclaim their identity. Director Quentin Worthington sought out the guardians of these liberating and painful memories.

By Coline Olsina

Photographer Benjamin Filarski's project “Above the Hill” focuses on the rapid urbanization and development of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, at a pace that leaves most citizens behind.

Photographs by Benjamin Filarski

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

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