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I saw a picture of a book cover online, I googled the title and the editor/photographers name; Eve Noire, Bertrand Lembezat, found a copy in an online bookstore and ordered…
Leo Erken, Februari 17, 2016 On a recent rainy Sunday afternoon my former students of photography posted many Instagram and Facebook messages telling me that I should attend a Photo Book…
Leo Erken, December 31, 2015. Sitting in a bar in the late nineties with colleagues who work in the creative industry I occasionally caught myself making little white lies about…
Leo Erken, December 9, 2015 A photographer friend who has a romantic heart told me about the day she and her friends spent during the Amsterdam Sail event this year. While…
Thoughts on WPP’s new rules. This week the World Press Photo organization announced strict new rules on digital manipulation of images. They had reasons for that – last year they…
By Leo Erken My friend Yadivindra Singh Saroya passed away on October 6, 2015, at the age of 49. He was the son of Sikh immigrants who moved to the…
I found out late, very late – my sister had to tell me – that a huge part of my mothers’ memory had gone. Why didn’t I notice it myself?…