Archives | Ciel variable 119
Our archives continue to grow! The complete issue no. 119 of Ciel variable, CONTRE-NATURE | AGAINST NATURE, originally published in winter 2022, is now available in full and free of charge on our website.
Biennials & Co. | Venice Biennale
Dense, rich, with an approach sensitive to reality and based on listening, emotion, and sensory experience, the central exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale bears the stamp of the curator Koyo Kouoh, who died in 2025. Photography, discreet or monumental, has an important place in this edition of the Biennale.
Read what Érika Nimis thought about it →
Lynne Cohen Award | Rediscovering Kiss Landing
The Lynne Cohen Award recently recognized the original and bold vision of emerging photographer Fatine-Violette Sabiri. To mark the occasion, we are making available free of charge an essay by Fanny Bieth devoted to Sabiri’s substantial photobook Kiss Landing.
Discover issue 132 | Tableaux
The feature section of this issue brings together the portfolios of Donigan Cumming, Jeff Wall and Luc Delahaye.
Gabor Szilasi has died, peacefully and with his family by his side, at the age of ninety-eight. A beautiful soul has left us.
Gabor Szilasi was a deeply humanist photographer whose lifelong commitment to documentary photography resulted in some of the most honest and moving portrayals of Quebec’s rural life and Montreal’s neighbourhoods. A prolific image-maker and influential teacher, he became a key figure in Canadian photography, shaping generations of practitioners. We pay tribute to his legacy through a selection of articles published over the years in the magazine.
Explore the full tribute here →
Documentary Photography | Maxym Dondyuk
The photographer Maxim Dondyuk’s winter landscapes may seem beautiful and peaceful, but they conceal a world of destruction. The images grouped under the title White Series complement a long-term project on the war in Ukraine. Read here, what Érika Nimis thought of Dondyuk’s work.
The Photobook | ABLAZE (did Rodin like chandeliers?)
Built around images taken at the Rodin Museum, ABLAZE by Ewa Monika Zebrowski is a delicate object, defined by the thinness and transparency of its paper, and by the words of poet Anne Michaels. Its discovery is a tactile one, notes Michel Hardy-Vallée. Read his review here.
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