SOUTH X SOUTHEAST Photomagazine

SOUTH X SOUTHEAST PHOTOMAGAZINE

LA LETTRE: The First Issue!

Mallam Galadima Ahmadu with Jamis, Nigeria, 2007
Photograph © Pieter Hugo from La Lettre 26.10.2010

Tony With Shadow, Los Angeles, 1988
© Herb Ritts Foundation, Courtesy of Fahey Klein Gallery

La Lettre de la Photographie: The First Issue!

Founded by: JEAN JACQUES NAUDET, former editor-in-chief of the French monthly, PHOTO, and editor at large of AMERICAN PHOTO in the USA; MAGNUS NADDERMIER, art director and former creative director of GQ, Condé-Nast en France; and ALEX KUMMERMAN, president of Clicmobile and co-founder of Soundwalk, new media specialist and entrepreneur.

La Lettre De La Photographie will provide daily coverage of all major photographic events, and will have special daily themes as follows:

Monday: A behind the scenes look at fashion, advertising and the world of celebrities. Tuesday: Great historic archives will be revealed, featuring former stories from great magazines and exceptional photo agencies. Wednesday: One photographer, one story. A photographer tells us the story about a picture, a great success, or a catastrophic failure. Thursday: With 90 percent of all agency files and independent works unpublished, this daily report will feature an insider's look at some of the best current events stories that we won't find on the front pages. Friday: Our "Coup de Coeur" will feature an unknown, yet emerging talent we would like to help support and recognize, or a talent from the past we'd like to revive. The Week-end agenda: Saturday and Sunday will provide international coverage of shows, exhibitions, prints, books, fairs, auctions, blogs and websites.

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FRACTION MAGAZINE: Issue 16

Drop-off and Border Fence, Sonora
Photograph (c) David Taylor /All Rights Reserved

Border Monument No.210 - N 32° 42.352' W 114° 54.596'
Photograph (c) David Taylor /All Rights Reserved

"For the last four years I have been photographing along the U.S.-Mexico border between El Paso/Juarez and Tijuana/San Diego. The project is organized around an effort to document all of the monuments that mark the international boundary west of the Rio Grande. The rigorous effort to reach all of the approximately 276 obelisks, which were installed between 1891 and 1895, has inevitably led to encounters with migrants, smugglers, Border Patrol agents, minutemen and local residents of the borderlands."—David Taylor, Working The Line (Radius Books)

Old Lady and Granddaughter, Maramures, Romania
Photograph (c) David Leventi /All Rights Reserved

Market, Maramures, Romania
Photograph (c) David Leventi /All Rights Reserved

"Romania Revisited retraces my great-grandfather’s footsteps into an unexpected past. Based on stories told by my father and grandmother, I traveled to Romania with a 4x5” large format view camera, collecting lost memories on a journey through a country now struggling to put behind it a lifespan of tyranny, while all the best and brightest who dared or were able to left."—David Leventi, Romania Revisited

Imperfect Apple, Summer, Aomori Prefecture
Photograph (c) Jane Alden Stevens /All Rights Reserved

Culled Apples & Branches, Early Summer, Aomori Prefecture
Photograph (c) Jane Alden Stevens /All Rights Reserved

Growing apples in the traditional way is a laborious, hands-on process in Japan. At the moment of harvest, an apple raised in this manner has been touched by the farmer's hands at least ten times since its blossom was set.—Jane Alden Stevens, Traditional Apple Growing in Japan

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FRACTION MAGAZINE: ISSUE 16

Photographs by David Leventi, David Taylor, Isabelle Pateer,
Jane Alden Stevens, Susan Lynn Smith, and Taylor Glenn

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FRACTION BLOG

Join the Discussion: Publishing in Your Hands

With Darius Himes, Melanie McWhorter, Andy Adams and David Bram. "What do we mean by "self-publishing"? Add your thoughts to our round-table discussion" —Andy Adams, Flak Photo