M.Y.O.P. are the initials from a poem by Paul Eluard: “My eyes patient object / were forever open / on the expanse of the seas / where I got lost”. Since the beginning of the XXIth century Myop has continued, through a thousand vicissitudes, to expand its team which today makes up one of the most prestigious “team” with Ed Alcock, Guillaume Binet, Julien Daniel, Agnès Dherbeys, Marie Dorigny, Julie Hascoët , Pierre Hybre, Olivier Jobard, Alain Keler, France Keyser, Oan Kim, Olivier Laban-Mattei, Stéphane Lagoutte, Jean Larive, Ulrich Lebeuf, Pascal Maitre, Olivier Monge, Julien Pebrel, Jérémy Saint-Peyre, etc.
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Guillaume Binet, Stéphane Lagoutte / MYOP
A film about Gilles Caron eye
This Wednesday, January 29th, 2019, the film “Histoire d’un Regard” by director Mariana Otero was released in theaters. This first-person documentary searches, with much emotion and precision, the work of a brilliant photographer who has become a myth: Gilles Caron. A must see.
Humanist photographer Jean-Louis Swiners has died
Collaborator of Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, reporter for Réalités magazine, Niepce 1962 award, distributed by the Dalmas photo agency then Rapho and today by Gamma-Rapho agency, Jean-Louis Swiners left us between two parties scoffing at life he loved so much.
Sylvain Julienne (1947-2019) : “Photography was like a flying carpet”
He was born on July 6, 1947 rue Dulong in Evreux, he died on December 18, 2019 in Evreux. “I must have made big messes in my previous lives. Because to end your life in the house where you were born, when you have toured the planet 20 or 30 times, you must have been messed up. The punishment is heavy ”confided Sylvain Julienne to La Dépêche, the local newspaper three months before his death.
Jean-Pierre Laffont, Hugues Vassal : Stars from Paris to New York
They tell us about a time that people under twenty do not know. Stars and celebrities whose names have raised – and sometimes still raise – the crowds. Two photographers who grew up in the cradle of the Gamma agency revisited their archives. Nostalgia for older people, curiosity for young people: two lessons of photojournalism.
Photography makes stories by Martine Ravache
A graduate of the Ecole du Louvre, Martine Ravache is an art historian, curator, and a photography specialist, who has worked as a researcher for the press and publishing for over twenty years. She publishes “Paranoid Looks” at Canoë editions.
in L’oeil de la photographie du 29 novembre 2019
Serge July, in love with New York and photography
On the occasion of the release of his Dictionnaire amoureux de New York ,the former director of Libération exposes 17 photographs of reflections on the buildings of the city at the Basia Embiricos Gallery in the Parisian Marais.
2019, The Chauvel Year
An exhibition at Visa pour l’image in Perpignan, another at the Maison de la Radio in Paris and, icing on the cake, two awards as part of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Prize for war correspondents, Patrick Chauvel is walking on air for his birthday.
