11, December 2013
It’s cold and grey outside, Hassan Hajjaj’s rockstar portraits will cheer you up
These colorful portraits of Hassan Hajjaj make me think also of Seydu Keita and Malick Sidibe, two of my favorite photographers of all times.Hassan photographs people in his home town of Marrakech…his "rockstars" are the snake charmer, the henna girl, the male belly dancer….wearing clothes he has designed for them , standing in [ read more ... ]
09, December 2013
From the garden with art
A friend of mine, the artist Jean Michel Jaudel , makes these beautiful compositions which then he photographs and frames. I cannot think of anything prettier to decorate a home with : bugs, fruit, twigs, thistles, branches, petals, leaves, seed pods are arranged with so much art and poetry . And the titles make me [ read more ... ]
06, December 2013
R.I.P Madiba
As i was posting about the film Mandela : Long Way To Freedom I receive an alert from the New York Times and the Guardian : Nelson Mandela, the towering figure of Africa's struggle for freedom and a hero to millions around the world, has died at the age of 95.From prisoner to president , and in our violent times, it is so [ read more ... ]