Entitled From Continent to Continent, the thematic dossier highlights the books of three artists — Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Fatine-Violette Sabiri and Ed Pien — whose photographic projects explore questions of identity through portraiture and self-portraiture, in an intimate journey across continents, cultures, and personal histories.
[Summer 2025] Entitled From Continent to Continent, the thematic dossier highlights the books of three artists — Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Fatine-Violette Sabiri and Ed Pien — whose photographic projects explore questions of identity through portraiture and self-portraiture, in an intimate journey across continents, cultures, and personal histories. EDITORIAL PORTFOLIOS FOCUS EXHIBITIONS READINGS VOICES
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Authors: Jacques Doyon
[Summer 2025] Editorial by Jacques Doyon The three artist books featured in this issue were founded on a quest for identity rooted in duality, encounter, and memory. They bear testament to a search for self, built from life stories, diasporic links, transmission of heritages. Photographic portraits and self-portraits are central to these illustrated narratives that […]
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Authors: Fanny Bieth | Artists: Fatine-Violette Sabiri
[Summer 2025] Photography as a Talisman by Fanny Bieth [EXCERPT] Fatine-Violette Sabiri is a multidisciplinary artist whose media include photography, textile arts, and installation. Her book Kiss Landing, published in 2024,1 brings together almost two hundred photographs taken in Casablanca, where Sabrini was born, and in Montreal, where she lives and works. Produced over a […]
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Authors: Bernard Schütze | Artists: Ed Pien
[Summer 2025] Shaping the Contours of time by Bernard Schütze [EXCERPT] The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. – Rainer Maria Rilke In his two-volume artist book, Presente: Pasado/Futuro, Ed Pien sets out part of a broader ongoing project in which he explores notions of time […]
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Authors: Bénédicte Ramade
[Summer 2025] The Age of Plants by Bénédicte Ramade [EXCERPT] With the exhibition Science/Fiction, une non-histoire des Plantes, the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris bore witness to the turn toward plants that has been shaking up the cultural world for a decade, overturning general preconceptions regarding this realm of the living world. Inspired […]