Category Archives: Art Fairs / Festivals

Paris Photo: crossing the finish line

By eyecurious | Published: 24 November 2009
Paris Photo 2009 has just drawn to a close and already the reports are flowing in thick and fast. There is much less of a consensus than for NYPH, which was generally perceived to have been a bit disappointing (see my previous round-up post on this). I am just happy to have survived it all [...]
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Paris Photo and beyond

By eyecurious | Published: 16 November 2009
It’s that time of year: once again Paris Photo is breathing down the back of our neck and my diary is already getting out of hand. As always there is a lot to look forward to at Paris Photo itself, but the key to making it through these five days alive is leaving Paris Photo [...]
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Naoshima: Paradise on Earth?

By eyecurious | Published: 30 October 2009
For this post, I am allowing myself to stray from our beloved photographic shores, but I assure you that it will be worth it. Last Friday I attended a conference at the Palais de Tokyo given for the opening of the exhibition on the Benesse Art Site Naoshima project. This was a pretty star-studded affair: [...]
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Review: Photoquai 2009

By eyecurious | Published: 27 September 2009
The Quai Branly Museum has just launched the second edition of Photoquai, its photography biennale of “world images”. The mission of the biennale, to “highlight and make known, artists whose work is previously unexhibited or little known in Europe, and to foster exchanges and the exchanging of views on the world,” sounded pretty good to [...]
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Arles 2009: 40 years and Nan Goldin

By eyecurious | Published: 17 July 2009
I have finally managed to sit down and collect my thoughts about this year’s Rencontres d’Arles festival. For Arles’ 40th anniversary, I decided to try and cover the festival in some detail. In this post I will be giving my overall impressions and in the next few days I will follow up with reviews of [...]
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Rencontres d’Arles

By eyecurious | Published: 6 July 2009
I am off to the opening week of the Rencontres d’Arles tomorrow. I will be attempting to cover the festival on the blog, but I probably will be going silent until next week. So have a great week and à bientôt!
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NY Photo Festival 2009 Round-up

By eyecurious | Published: 19 May 2009
Following on from my last post, here is one of the great things about photo-blogs: no sooner is the NY Photo Festival over than the reviews are already springing up all over the blogosphere. The picture I am getting so far is a bit disappointing. Don’t worry, I won’t be adding to the debate seeing [...]
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