September 29, 2012
Flying Houses by Laurent Chehere
French photographer Laurent Chehere is currently exhibiting his Flying Houses at Galerie Paris Beijing in Le Marais. Laurent is a former award-winning advertising photographer (Audi, Nike), who decided to leave the commercial side to go around the world. He is now living his…
September 18, 2012
Photography : Desiree Dolron
"Desiree Dolron’s aesthetic is intricately linked to the Flemish school of primitive portrait painters such as Petrus Christus, Rogier van der Weyden and the interior Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi. Dolron does not try to emulate their work but rather adapts the aesthetic to…
July 1, 2012
The joy of dressing up
This is the kind of look I was trying to achieve as a little girl, in my dress up and disguise sessions. I was digging into my mum and dad's closets, into the attic in search of hats and other decorating elements. I loved layering, hunting and military looks, boys shoes too…
June 24, 2012
Steve McCurry : “Football”
"Steve McCurry, in the finest documentary tradition, captures the essence of human struggle and joy". His Football series is an illustration of the latest. Children playing in the street is something precious that we have lost or forgotten, in many parts of the world. Too…
June 22, 2012
Paolo Ventura in London
One of my favourite contemporary photographers, Paolo Ventura creates maquettes and incredibly detailed figurines that he then shoots in his studio. You can spend hours looking at his work and imagining him doing all this by hand; fascinating and impressive. Paolo Ventura is…
May 30, 2012
Underwater with Zena Holloway
Zena Holloway does stunning underwater photography. Her pictures have an incredible texture; they look like slow motion contemporary ballet scenes. Quite fascinating...
May 3, 2012
Joanna Paterson for the Telegraph
A yellow infused story by Joanna Paterson (photographer), Julie Vianey (stylist) and Petra Storrs (prop designer), published last Sunday in the Sunday Telegraph Kids.
April 20, 2012
A photographic journey in Kyrgyzstan
My Quiet of Gold by Cooper & Gorfer is a striking photographic journey documenting the stories of love, sorrow, and betrayal from rural Kyrgyzstan. Seen at the last Armory show in New York, the photographs stayed with me. I was particularly struck by the intense and…
April 18, 2012
Monika Elena for Noro
Sharing this new photos story by Monika Elena for Noro. Simply beautiful, fresh and elegant...
April 15, 2012
Street Kids by The Photo League
The Photo League was a cooperative of amateur and professional photographers in New York who banded together around a range of common social and creative causes. The League was active from 1936 to 1951 and included among its members some of the most noted American photographers…
March 15, 2012
The basis of children’s joy
I loved the feature "Toying with ideas - Philosophers on children" in the latest issue of Kidswear Magazine. A brillant compilation of quotes on education and childhood by Nietsche, Hannah Arendt,