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Paris Photo 2021: Highlights

Following a lively weekend of artist talks, gallery shows and programmes, Anna Sansom spotlights five standouts from the fair

15 November 2021

Me, Myself & I

Adopting a variety of guises and costumes, Samuel Fosso has spent a lifetime subverting cultural stereotypes with his performative self-portraits

3 May 2020
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Edgar Martins: Inside Out

Edgar Martins’ latest two-part book contemplates the emotional impact of incarceration on prisoners and their families

30 October 2019

Portraits of the detained by Bettina Rheims

Photographs of women prisoners typically depict them in their cells, behind bars, their femininity stripped away. In contrast to this, French photographer Bettina Rheims has made a series of studio-like portraits of women in four jails across France, images that seek to restore and capture the feminine aspect of their identity. Titled Détenues [Detained], the series comprises 68 frontal portraits shot against white walls in Autumn 2014, and is currently on show in the chapel of Château de Vincennes – a former royal castle near Paris, that housed ‘women of ill repute’ in the 18th and 19th centuries. The exhibition is accompanied by a book, published by Gallimard.

21 March 2018