Le Garage

Le Garage is a collective of several photographers based in France. They are currently organizing what looks like a really cool show for the Arles International Photo Festival.

As they state on the site,

From the 3rd to the 13th of July 2010 Le Garage will present the first photo book dummies and artist books exhibition to be held during the International Photography Festival of Arles. 

Please come and celebrate with us the opening of the show on the 4th of July from 8PM at Le Garage, 9 rue Raillon, 13200 Arles!

They have some great artists participating - including Christian Patterson, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Charnarin, Gregory Halpern, Jeff Ladd, Beatriz Diaz, Taryn Simon and many others. I met up with Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine, one of the organizers, who kindly showed me some of his own book maquettes and told me about the project.

It is a bit of a guerilla exhibition, but looks well worth the trip if you plan on being in Arles for the festival.

FOAM Magazine Essay

I'm pleased on announce that I have an essay in the current Summer 2010 issue of FOAM Magazine. I'm a big fan of FOAM and think it is one of the best photo magazines out there. The piece is more of a short story written in response of Bertrand Fleuret's work and accompanies a portfolio of his work. You can browse the issue on their website - but I recommend picking up a copy. There is some great work in the issue - including work by JH Engstrom, Joel Sternfeld, Mohamed Bourouissa and others.