{"id":990,"date":"2010-05-06T10:43:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T10:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=990"},"modified":"2010-05-06T10:43:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T10:43:34","slug":"november-in-paris-lensculture-fotofest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"November in Paris &#038; Lensculture fotofest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008 I spent the best part of a week there and apart from <em>Paris Photo<\/em>, visited more than 40 other photo shows, writing about quite a few of them for <em>&gt;Re:PHOTO,<\/em> as well as my reflections on the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">Maison Europeene de la Photographie<\/a><\/em> (MEP) compared to our<em> Photographers&#8217; Gallery<\/em> and attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\"><em>C\u00e9r\u00e9monies du 11 novembr<\/em><\/a>e. I think there are about 32 posts from that visit on the site in <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?m=200811\" target=\"_blank\">November 2008<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?m=200812\" target=\"_blank\">December 2008<\/a> (it took me a month to finish writing about the best of the exhibitions I saw) and also on My London Diary, a special <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2008\/11\/nov.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Paris Supplement<\/a> with my own pictures from the visit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2008\/11\/17\/20081117-d0153.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2008 Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2008 Peter Marshall\" height=\"298\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<small>A walk in the footsteps of Willy Ronis, 2008 Peter Marshall<\/small><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/peter-marshall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paris site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/peter-marshall.com\/1984bw\/set1\/848s-paris-bw367.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 1984, Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 1984, Peter Marshall\" height=\"274\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Quai de Jemappes \/ Rue Bichat, 10e, Paris, 1984<\/small><\/p>\n<p>And the second was the latest news from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lensculture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lensculture<\/a>, based in Paris, which as well as announcing the latest issue of this great online magazine, also gives details of the <a href=\"http:\/\/fotofest-paris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lensculture fotofest Paris 2010<\/a>, with international portfolio reviews and a meeting place for photographers to be held at <em>Sp\u00e9os Paris Photographic Institute<\/em> in the 11th arrondissement from November 15-17 2010. This is the first large-scale event of the type &#8211; pioneered by FotoFest in Houston 20 years ago &#8211; to take place in Paris.\u00a0 Birmingham of course got there some time ago with <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=55\" target=\"_blank\">Rhubarb Rhubarb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2007\/07\/28\/20070729-d0556.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2007 Peter Marshall\" alt=\"\u00a9 2007 Peter Marshall\" height=\"302\" width=\"450\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Reviews in progress at Rhubarb Rhubarb in Birmingham in 2007, where I was one of the reviewers<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Lensculture has also joined up with <em>VII Photo<\/em> and now has features and recorded interviews with their photographers in an &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lensculture.com\/viimagazine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Photojournalism<\/a>&#8216; series.<\/p>\n<p>Something completely new to me in this issue of Lensculture is the work of Lithuanian photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lensculture.com\/kavaliauskas.html?thisPic=100\" target=\"_blank\">Mindaugas Kavaliauskas<\/a> whose book on life in Kraziai, an historic village in north-western Lithuania, is reviewed by Zo\u00eb Fargher and you can see a set of of his 16 images from it on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=990\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">November in Paris &#038; Lensculture fotofest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues","category-reviews-etc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}