Series
The Swiss Guard, 1981
Serie | The Corps of the Pontifical Swiss Guard as part of the Military of the Vatican City is an exception to the Swiss rulings of 1874 and 1927.
The Chemin des dames (1981-2003)
In 1981, Gérard Rondeau began working alongside French writer Yves Gibeau in the harsh landscapes of the Chemin des Dames, staging ground of several major battles that took place during WWI.
Hermanos de America, 1980
Christian Poveda knows America very well, for having spent 10 years of his life covering major events and schock moments in the country (from 1978 to 1988)...
Peluqueria (Salon de coiffure), 1979
Series | This series is both emblematic and founding of Ouka Leele's work.
In the midst of Madrid's Movida period...
Immigration Chronicles, 1978
In 1976, Christian Carez and Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt began a report on immigration in Belgium, which after two years of work became Chroniques immigrées.
Rue des Lombards, 1977
Rue des Lombards is Jane Evelyn Atwood's first photographic reportage, produced in black and white, in a writing that is at once simple, effective and sensitive.
Polaroids, 1977
About twenty Polaroids created by Strömholm in 1976 present the assemblies of images and objects and constitute so many visual plays on words that reveal the profound influence of surrealism on Strömholm.
Protest Against Racism with Jean Paul Sartre, 1971
1971: Djellali Ben Ali, 15, was killed by the caretaker of his building in the Goutte d’Or in Paris.
Daily Life, 1955-1965
Vieitez documented the different episodes, either solemn or common, of the daily life in his countryside.
Paris, 1965
"The pictures of a lost Paris does not call up our nostalgia but revive our curiosity and support our interest as a document..."
Passport Photographs (1955-1965)
Vieitez made hundreds of passport photographs when the ID card became compulsory in 1962.
Japon, 1963
Christer Strömholm travelled to Japan to photograph, in a sober and sparse expression, the faces of the victims of the Hiroshima disaster.
America, 1963
On her journey around the world, Christer Strömholm travelled to some of the major cities in the United States between 1962 and 1963.
Children, 1963
Christer Strömholm's images of children, so far removed from the charm and anecdote that made the success of "French romanticism" so successful, are both generous and respectful and of infinite sadness.
Portraits of Artists, 1962
Strömholm is very interested in art history and is very close to contemporary artists. He makes numerous portraits and discovers that he possesses a particular talent « to break through the shell of the artists ».
Mobile Circus, 1959
Virxilio Vieitez had models posed outdoors because he found the studio boring and he installed them firmly to compose images that he immortalized by saving film to the point of never taking more than two shots of the same motif.
Spain, 1959
Series | At the end of the 1650s, Christer Strömholm made many trips to Spain, including Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona and Madrid, where he was a guide for the first major tourist waves.
Les amies de la Place Blanche , 1954
Series | This is a book about insecurity. A portayal of those living a different life in the big city of Paris, of people who endured the roughness of the streets.
Les Terre Neuvas, 1952
Serie | The photographs of Anita Conti, the only woman to have accompanied the legendary terre-neuvas in 1939 and 1952, tell the story of this great fishery, which has totally disappeared today.
Fotoform, 1952
Series | Between 1950 and 1953, Strömholm joined up the Fotoform group led by Otto Steinert. He had the assumed mane of Christer Christian and was took part in the Subjective Fotografie collective exhibition”.
«Only the outraged shall come in», 2016
Storie | Though the year 2016 is still in its earlier months, numerous social movements have already emerged and seem here to last. Strikes against the labour reform, opposition to the state of emergency, #NuitDebout movement, denunciation of police brutality...
Tabula Rogeriana, 2016
This photographic series finds its genesis in the book of Pedrag Matveievich, “La Méditerrannée”, and the tabular work of the scientist and cartographer, Muhammad Al-Idrisi; the “Tabula Rogeriana”.
On the Road of Sub-Saharan Migrants, 2016
Serie | Michael Zumstein followed the road taken by thousands of Sub-Saharan migrants as they leave their countries for a long and dangerous journey : from Banjul (Gambia) to the Libyan coast, including Agadez (Niger).
D'entre eux, 2012-2015
Series | Since 1830, Belgium brings together two peoples, united by the will of the great powers of the time to create a buffer state.
Supernature, 2015
Serie | Supernature is an imaginary safari which pays tribute to the forces of nature, its beauty and its poetry.
Childmothers, 2015
Series | Every year, about 2 million girls give birth before the age of 15. This corresponds to 5 500 girls a day, who progress directly from childhood to motherhood.
Funeral of Hocine Ait Ahmed, 2015
Hocine Aït Ahmed, born in 1925 in Kabylia and died in 2015 in Lausanne, Switzerland, was an Algerian politician and historical leader of the Algerian Liberation Front which, after Algeria's independence, embodied the figure of the irreducible opponent to the various powers in place.
Distant Early Warning, 2015-ongoing
Series | The project Distant Early Warning shows the gradual militarization of the Arctic, documenting legacies of the Cold War and increased military presence. Changes in the region have been exacerbated by other issues, in particular by global warming.
Tu es une Merveille (collections espagnole, belge et française), 2015
Serie | Inspired by the Wonders of the Cabinets of Curiosities - precious objects born from the mixture of natural and artificial elements, presented since the end of the Renaissance in Europe
The Wrinkles of the City, 2008-2015
The Wrinkles of the City is a project presented in various cities around the world where “wrinkles”, human as well as architectural, can be found.