Guénola Pellen

At the end of an empty driveway, rain-slicked and littered with torn branches as though a storm had just passed, a white clapboard house comes into view. Light seeps from a single window, betraying a presence. The trees stand bare. The day promises little... See more

Hatted heads crowd the frame. Tweed overcoats. A cigarette burning down in the front row. Hastings Park, 16 July 1955 carries the bite of a press photograph, and the bite is what gives it away: too crisp, too saturated for the year it claims. Stan Douglas... See more

In the attic of a family house in Piedmont, Italy, Giada Ripa unearths an album signed by Felice Beato. 'I came across fifty-three hand-coloured albumen prints all in pristine condition,' she recalls. An unpublished travel manuscript soon surfaces as well... See more

Pie Aerts spent years selling cheese. A Maastricht University graduate, he ran the dairy arm of the largest food retailer in the Netherlands for several years, crisscrossing the factories and farms of Europe with a camera in his bag on weekends. The doubl... See more

Sanlé Sory came to photography the day he sat for an identity photograph. In 1960, after several years as an apprentice, the seventeen-year-old opened his own studio, Volta Photo, in Bobo-Dioulasso, the country's second city. That same year, Upper Volta, ... See more