Today and tomorrow, La Lettre belongs to you and you belong to La Lettre, from now on, every weekend. If you want to show and promote your work, these two days are for you. Send us between 7 and 15 pictures (1024 pixels, 72 dpi), accompanied by a short text including your age, your nationality...

10.09.2011[ read full story ]

Over the last five years Sylvie Zijlmans has created photo works of an intimate world in which something unspeakable has taken place. Mysterious events that are certainly possible but highly improbable. Bacteria are spat back and forth across the table. Smoke rises from mugs, gla...

01.10.2011[ read full story ]

Born French in 1944, I live in Brussels (Belgium). I take pictures while I walk. While wandering, I noticed that many places were fenced off, or had been for so long that we no longer know why, only the enclosure remains. Here are a few walls that captured my attention.

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I was born in 1971 in Beirut. I received my first Canon at 11. I used it
as I wandered through the war torn city center ruins. After a long period during which I couldn¹t work in this city, the use of a compact Leica allowed me to slip into the bright lights of the sensual night...

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I have been making photographs since I was 17 years old, so after putting over 30,000 hours into this, I still find it to be something that makes me feel magical at the moment I snap that shutter at something that moves me emotionally in an event or interacting in a portrait sitting.

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Frêre Jean, Orthodox monk, born in 1947…I discovered through the picture as time goes by photographing the same subject, still inside the closing of monsatère.

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Thomas Vanden Driessche was born in Leuven in 1979. Thomas lives and works in Brussels: “Here is a series I took two years ago in Northeast India, providing a biased treatment of the economically paternalistic multinational Indian company Tata: Tata Stadium, Tata Football Academy...

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The documentary series Unsettled focuses in a metaphoric way on the idea of “progress” in a case where living environment and heritage have to disappear because of industrial purposes. Within this project this international tendency is illustrated by focusing on the Belgian vil...

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Philippe Bernard, this 37-year old sculptor, recently moved to Paris. “Light is essential to my work. Since 2008, I have stopped retouching my pictures, focusing on the photo shoot. In my new series, Capsules, light comes from darkness. Dense and profound. It defines and inhabits i...

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“Photographer since my teenage, I learnt it first by myself in the streets of Paris and during my travels around the world.” Lola Shore, 37 years old, is a french photographer, living in Poitiers (France): “This series explores the representation of women today. From the good
siste...

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Jocelyne Forgeot, born in 1947, lives in Paris. Fond of traveling since the age of 20 years, the photography has been for her the memory of the countries covered.

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How does one experience loss? What does loss look like?
Catastrophic losses usually have a face; think war photos, photos from the World Trade Center, crashes of various sorts but I am interested in personal loss.

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Valerie Le Fevre, french photographer was born in 1972. She lives in France and in Dubai United Arab Emirates. Her serie Humans in the city is a poetic look on the people in Paris.

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Originally from Kosovo, residing in France since he was 19, Alban Jupolli
began working in the Paris streets at night, a camera in his hand. His pictures have the charm of the snapshot, with a particular elegance.
Worn by a young retro-nostalgic player, his picture...

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From March 11 to March 15, Japanese government ordered the evacuation of residents within 20km from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Residents between 20 and 30 km must stay indoors. On April 22, five other villages were ordered to evacuate before the end of May : Iitate, ...

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Belarus as nation is still looking for self-identifying model, being presented in World culture contest as “a part of Russia”. The idea of the project is to document still existing pagan culture traditions and believes and signs to determine cultural basis of Belarus culture.
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