November in Paris & Lensculture fotofest

I’m already looking forward to November in Paris, which really is the month of the photo, as well as a great time to enjoy walking around one of my favourite cities.

In 2008 I spent the best part of a week there and apart from Paris Photo, visited more than 40 other photo shows, writing about quite a few of them for >Re:PHOTO, as well as my reflections on the Maison Europeene de la Photographie (MEP) compared to our Photographers’ Gallery and attending the Cérémonies du 11 novembre. I think there are about 32 posts from that visit on the site in November 2008 and December 2008 (it took me a month to finish writing about the best of the exhibitions I saw) and also on My London Diary, a special Paris Supplement with my own pictures from the visit.

© 2008 Peter Marshall
A walk in the footsteps of Willy Ronis, 2008 Peter Marshall

Two things reminded me about Paris in the last week. One was a request to supply a picture I took in 1984 which is on the front page of a part of my Paris site.

© 1984, Peter Marshall
Quai de Jemappes / Rue Bichat, 10e, Paris, 1984

And the second was the latest news from Lensculture, based in Paris, which as well as announcing the latest issue of this great online magazine, also gives details of the Lensculture fotofest Paris 2010, with international portfolio reviews and a meeting place for photographers to be held at Spéos Paris Photographic Institute in the 11th arrondissement from November 15-17 2010. This is the first large-scale event of the type – pioneered by FotoFest in Houston 20 years ago – to take place in Paris.  Birmingham of course got there some time ago with Rhubarb Rhubarb.

© 2007 Peter Marshall
Reviews in progress at Rhubarb Rhubarb in Birmingham in 2007, where I was one of the reviewers

Lensculture has also joined up with VII Photo and now has features and recorded interviews with their photographers in an ‘Inside Photojournalism‘ series.

Something completely new to me in this issue of Lensculture is the work of Lithuanian photographer Mindaugas Kavaliauskas whose book on life in Kraziai, an historic village in north-western Lithuania, is reviewed by Zoë Fargher and you can see a set of of his 16 images from it on the site.

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