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| Focus on JapanAsphalt is not a traditional photomagazine. Dedicated to the japanese and asian photography,the magazine exists only by the will of his founders, without sponsors or advertising. Thought as a collector's item from its conception, Asphalt launches this winter, the issue 8. During all the week, the world of photography has meeting in Paris and on the occasion of Paris Photo, it seemed to us evident to meet one of his founders, Atsushi Fujiwara to speak about this UFO... More |  |
 | "Sous le tropique du capricorne"La photographie intervient entre ce qui est aboli par la flèche du temps et ce qui prend le statut particulier d’archives de l’impermanence, puisqu’il n’y a photographie qu’à partir d’une confrontation avec ce qui a été… L’actuel engloutissement de notre époque dans les flux d’images exige de nous que puissions refaire le chemin de cette histoire déterminante de la photographie, dès lors que le perfectionnement de la mécanique et de la chimie argentique ont autorisé les opérations d’un certain regard et non pas seulement d’un œil...More |
| La Collection Photographique du CNAPLe CNAP expose actuellement au Tri Postal de Lille des oeuvres issus de ses collections. A cette occasion, rencontre avec le tout nouveau conservateur des collections photographiques Pascal Beausse qui nous parle de ce rôle inédit dans l'institution et de son ambitieuse feuille de route...More |  |
 | Asphalt 8 issueAkiko Sudo, born in Tokyo in 1974, has photographied Tibet in 2005. Her photos have captured the daily living including "five-points-prostration", which is their way of praying by touching the ground with their hands, knees and forehead. Tibet was a independent country before. Qianlong Emperor has taken over and Tibet became a tributary state. After the Chinese Revolution, Dalai Lama 13th issued a Declaration of Independence, however, the Nationalist government did not recognize its independence and the Communist government claimed sovereignty over Tibetan territory and sent their army into the land...More |
| Robert Frank: Dissecting the American Image Here started a journey into The Americans in an attempt to understand not just the photographs, but the book. It has been a journey among museum archives, borrowed books, and xerox machines. It has meant searching out other Frank fanatics, engaging in endless and at times pointless discussions and arguments, and planning forays into literature and foreign languages.More | |
 | Göksin Sipahioglu est mort En 1998, Göskin Sipahioglu, fondateur de l'agence photographique SIPA expose à Visa pour l'Image, le festival de photojournalisme de Perpignan. A cette occasion, Michel Guerrin publie dans Le Monde daté du 20 novembre, un article consacré à ce dinosaure...More |
| EditorialPar une belle journée de janvier 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, sans même forcer sur le Martini (il était suffisamment excité au naturel), rédigeait le Premier Manifeste du Futurisme. Et parmi les « premières volontés » qu'il entendait dicter « aux hommes vivants de la terre », il affirmait ceci : « Nous voulons démolir les musées, les bibliothèques, combattre le moralisme, le féminisme et toutes les lâchetés opportunistes et utilitaires »...More |  |
| Meeting with Lola Mc Dougall and Frank Kalero from Punctum MagazineThe voice of photographers has never been more powerful than today. Throughout the whole genres of art, photography has the largest number of consumers and producers. Photography is riding high, propelled by its strong popularity and artistry. How does the photography in Asia look like now? In order to figure out how panasiatic contemporary photography can bear such diverse and multiple voices, we need to look into the change of circumstance that surrounds photography. Meeting with the two founders of Punctum, a new bi-annual magazine who suggests an unusual point of view about panasiatic photography. More |
| GUP Magazine 30Cairo was an old Ford with a Land Rover’s engine. A barren, desert-like metropolis fuelled by the Zaballeen’s unflagging attempts to keep the city bearable. I’m not sure whether it was that common denominator or the searing heat, but something drove them to me and to each other. I provided them with the coolness that the city lacked, they provided each other with the warmth that the big, lonely made one long for...More |  |
 | ASPHALT 7Asphalt's guest for this issue, Nobuko Kobayashi, was born in 1969 in Tokyo. She graduated from Bunka-Gakuin where she studied Anglo-American literature. She also studied design and photography in England for 7 years starting in 1998. I must say her personal history is a bit strange. The reason why she visited China is as explained in her own writing, but the time period is from 2006 to 2008. 胡同 or hutong is residential housing in traditional working-class neighborhood of Beijing. In modern Chinese, it is written as 小巷 and the literal translation is something like alley or sidestreet...More |