Agence Le Journal

22/11/2018

PUBLICATION | In the footsteps of the "kaçak çay", the illegal tea from Istanbul"
Engin Güneysu worked for Munchies - VICE France with the journalist Marion Fontenille on this dark and bitter "illegal" tea.

Have a look!

Plus noir et plus amer que le thé turc classique, le « kaçak çay » est même devenu au fil du temps un symbole pour la population kurde.

23/10/2018

WORKSHOP | Agence Le Journal’s photographer Engin Güneysu works in the fields of documentary and street photography. He is holding a 12-day Street Photography workshop in Cuba between 1 and 12 of December 2018.

Do not hesitate to apply!

Check the Tour Program and all the informations you need here:

- www.agencelejournal.com/street-photography-workshop-in-cuba-with-engin-guneysu/

- enginguneysu.blogspot.com/2018/09/street-photography-workshop-and-trip-at.html

Agence Le Journal’s photographer Engin Güneysu works in the fields of documentary and street photography. He’s holding a 12-day Street Photography workshop in Cuba between 1 and 12 of December 2018. Check the Tour Program and all the informations you need Participation Condition: * To have Basi...

14/10/2018

PUBLICATION | "How a Trump decision on trade became a setback for democracy in Vietnam" - a very interesting reading with photographs by Linh Pham and Charlotte Schmitz for Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/how-a-trump-decision-on-trade-became-a-setback-for-democracy-in-vietnam/?utm_term=.59c6aef7de57

12/10/2018

PUBLICATION | Have a look at Zacharie Rabehi's work for The Guardian that has just been published: 'It's for my daughter's memory': the Indian village where every girl's life is celebrated.

Grief-stricken after his daughter’s death, the chief of Piplantri village declared that every newborn girl would have a tree planted in her honour. In the process, he sowed the seeds of cultural, environmental and political revolution.

Stricken with grief over his daughter’s death, the chief of Piplantri village declared that every newborn girl would have a tree planted in her honour

27/09/2018

PUBLICATION | Pierre Belhassen's work "Marseille Allogene" featured on the last Courrier international issue. We are very happy and proud to be on the cover of the magazine.
You can also discover the 8 pages about how Marseille is seen by the international press.
A warm thanks to Lidwine Kervella with whom it is always great to work with.

02/08/2018

PUBLICATION | LJ's photographer Charlotte Schmitz was on assignment for NEON France last month - Discover her photos and the article in the new issue

REVOLUTIONS AND DISILLUSIONS

"Tahrir Square, Cairo, January 2011. At Gezi Park, Istanbul, May 2013. Maidan, Kiev, 2014. They experienced a revolution. Then saw it fail. Testimonials."

Huge thanks to Dylan Calves for his great support.

11/06/2018

PUBLICATION | Have a look at Ferdi Limani’s reportage about a 60 years old rural doctor. A glimpse into the daily work of a remote health worker in a small town of Southwest Kosovo.

Thank you KOSOVO 2.0 for this strong publication

http://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/rural-doctor/

31/05/2018

GEZI PARK PROTESTS | Today marks the 5th anniversary of the occupation of Gezi Park in Istanbul, the anti-government protests that shook Turkey in 2013.

Ferdi Limani and Engin Güneysu were there to document events that became a symbol of resistance for a whole generation of Turks

Proof that the wounds are not healed yet, police have sealed off Taksim Gezi Park today and placed barriers in front of all entrances and exits of the park.

On May 28, 2013, a small group of environmentalists occupied Gezi Park, in Istanbul’s Taksim Square to stand against the plan for razing the park in order to build a shopping mall.

Following the extreme violence of the police response, protests spread to the whole country on May 31, 2013. What had begun as a small environmental protest became a national anti-government uprising.

During these events, 11 people were killed by the police, including eight youngsters, as more than 8,000 others were injured, dozens of them critically.

21/05/2018

PUBLICATION | Discover Cha Gonzalez work "Abandon" featured on the great IZ magazine last issue.
Very happy to see her photo on the cover !

Discover the 16 pages publication and the other photographers work here: Fotografevi, where you can order the magazine.

A huge thanks to Gölnur Cengiz for her trust and support.

18/05/2018

PUBLICATION | Discover Charlotte Schmitz 8 pages publication
for Joko Winterscheidt Magazin "I have to fall in love today":

Vanya is 19 years old and is about to marry soon. During the annual wedding market of the Kalajdzii Roma in Bulgaria, she is looking for a husband. Or a way out...

Have a look at the reportage here : stern https://www.stern.de/lifestyle/jwd/jwd-magazin--auf-dem-hochzeitsmarkt-der-roma-in-bulgarien-7945834.html

Photos: Charlotte Schmitz /Agence Le Journal
Tex: Frederik Seeler

14/05/2018

PUBLICATION | “What Difference Is Trump for Us?” We are very happy to share this publication about how politics and culture in America look from Istanbul today, very well written by Suzy Hansen. Photos by Charlotte Schmitz - Le Journal for The New Republic

Have a closer look at the article and photos here: https://newrepublic.com/article/148393/america-gets-wrong-iranagain

13/05/2018

Cha Gonzalez featured on PHmuseum with a photo from her photo essay "Abandon". Thanks !

The photographer of the day is Cha Gonzalez (Agence Le Journal): phmuseum.com/charlottegonzalez
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"Parties are a privileged place, a space for exploration, a time for fusion. Skin, saliva, sweat, sometimes an overdose of it - it’s the moment when sexual tension is opposed to a feeling of loneliness, and both are symmetrical and equally strong. When different social classes, sexes, and ages gather to seek human connection and loopholes in their own consciousness and social behaviours."

13/05/2018

PUBLICATION | Cha Gonzalez worked for ELLE magazine on two important issues. We are proud to share her publications:

- R**e, excision, beatings, they've been through the worst. At the women's house ("La Maison des Femmes"), they receive care, listening... and re-appropriate their bodies.

- Is it possible to preserve fertility without being a slave to the biological clock? Science says yes. France, which is preparing to revise bioethics laws, says no, for now....

11/05/2018

EXHIBITION | We are happy to announce that Le journal's photographer Charlotte Schmitz will be part of the International contemporary photography Festival Manifesto in Toulouse (France).

Her work "La Puente" will be exhibited in September 2018

Save the date!

For more infos: www.festival-manifesto.org/fr/programmation-2018/

03/05/2018

PUBLICATION | Le Journal's photographer Cha Gonzalez featured last week on Libération to ıllustrate an article about the use of GBL.

"Euphoric, uninhibiting, GBL has spread in recent years in nightclubs and private parties. Cheap, linked to cases of comas sometimes fatal, this cousin of GHB makes fear a sanitary crisis."

This photo is part of Cha's long term work: http://www.agencelejournal.com/gallery/abandon/

You can read the article bellow:
www.liberation.fr/france/2018/04/25/gbl-un-solvant-de-panique-dans-la-nuit_1645920

19/04/2018

EXHIBITION | Le Journal's is very happy to annonce that Zacharie Rabehi's photo essay "The Rohingyas and The sea" will be exhibited in Le Guivinec photo festival, in France between 1 June and 30 September 2018.
We are very honored to see that they have chosen a photo of Zacharie Rabehi for the festival's poster.

The festival invites visitors to take a photographic walk through the streets and squares of the city centre, day and night, with free access but also, new, in two covered venues.

It is also strengthening its ties with the younger generation through projects and work on the theme. This year, eight photographers will see their work exhibited.

A huge thanks to the great festival team!

www.festivalphotoduguilvinec.bzh/photographe/zacharie-rabehi/

21/03/2018

EXHIBITION | We are happy to invite you at the opening of Leica Gallery's new exhibition “A Room of One’s Own" in Istanbul on Thursday 22 March - 18h30 as Le Journal photographer Charlotte Schmitz is part of the show.

Photographers works of Meltem Isik, Charlotte Schmitz, Tahmineh Monzavi and Cansu Yıldıran will be exhibited from March 22nd 2018 to May 5th 2018.

The challenges that are addressed in the book “A Room of One’s Own” can still transcend today’s world view and are expressed through the works of four women artists in the exhibition. The artists are inspired by personal experience or by combining reality and fiction, just like Woolf. Each artist comes from a different part of the world and with her own photographic language, brings out obsolete values and the expectations that still trap women today.«

Leica Camera Turkey

13/03/2018

EXHIBITION | Le Journal's photographer Charlotte Schmitz is exhibited in Istanbul - A huge thanks to Daire Galeri and Cemre Yeşil who curated this group exhibition: “BECOMING: Cure as Care”

Friends in Istanbul, come for the opening: 17.03.2018 at Daire Galeri

The exhibition will take place in the gallery Daire Sanat and a limited edition book entitled “Becoming: Cure as Care / Olagelen: İhtimam” has been specially curated by the artist Cemre Yeşil Gönenli for the occasion.

The exhibition can be visited in between 17th March — 21st April 2018.
As an artist, academician, photographer and perhaps a curator ‘to become’, Cemre Yeşil Gönenli aims to create a space to ‘learn and teach’ under the shadow of ‘sharing’ and ‘becoming’, by bringing together not only all those people she has learnt from; like her students, her teachers, and her peers, but also their various stories on ‘becoming’ they have told through photographs.

13/03/2018

PUBLICATION | Flood in Paris – Le Journal’s photographer Cha Gonzalez is featured on the new issue of French magazine
NEON with her photo of the Eiffel Tower during the flood in Paris – France

10/03/2018

Do not miss this great opportunity - Blink' portfolio review

This review is about inclusion, uplifting the next generation of artists from a range of disciplines, and connecting them with editors, brands and agencies in the content market who are joining Blink in making the industry better for all.

Submit your best visuals by 11 PM EST on Monday, March 12!

Blink invites you to participate in the Blink Portfolio Review, held on April 18 at Ilegal Mezcal’s performance space in the West Village. It is open to all creators on the Blink Network and is focused on inclusion, uplifting the next generation of artists from a range of disciplines, connecting t...

08/03/2018

PHOTO OF THE DAY | From "La Puente" photo essay, by Le Journal's photographer Charlotte Schmitz :

"170 women work in the biggest brothel of South Ecuador. This brothel is called La Puente.
My photos were developed in collaboration with the women working in the brothel, so it was important for me to choose a medium that would give them full control over their identity. Working with a polaroid camera gave the women the possibility to control and personalize their own photos. To protect their identity, many of the women painted with nail polish on their own pictures. It was initially used to hide identity, but quickly developed into a creative process and even a way of staging the world within the brothel. The women decided how they wanted to be photographed. Not only their selected poses, but also the use of nail polish tell about the women’s inner and outer perceptions.
This collaboration made it possible to form a deeper and more complex understanding of the women in the brothel because they represent and define themselves independently. This project is not a classical work about prostitution it is rather about the inner and outer perceptions of women working in »La Puente« and about the general sexualized picture of women in our society."

03/03/2018

PUBLICATION | Have a look to the reportage that Le Journal's photographer Charlotte Schmitz did for ZEIT ONLINE about the last German CDU youth meeting in Berlin.

www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2018-02/junge-union-berlin-cdu-basis

19/02/2018

PUBLICATION | Le Journal's photographer Ferdi Limani worked for KOSOVO 2.0 on Kosovo young generation while the country celebrates the Independance 10th anniversary. Ferdi also shares his impression about his country and its youth.

http://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/agony-10th-anniversary/

Kosovo’s confined youth.

02/02/2018

PUBLICATION | "Istanbul, Interieurs jours" portfolio featured on Courrier international new issue. Very happy to see Le Journal's photographer CharlotteSchmitz's work published this week.

Her images reveal the intimacy of women in the domestic sphere of a popular district of Istanbul - Turkey

31/01/2018

PUBLICATION | We are so glad to see LJ photographer Zacharie Rabehi's work published in Libération newspaper! A huge thanks to Tess Raimbeau

In Bangladesh, Rohingyas found refuge on the beach of Shamlapur a decade ago. The exile of this community, forced to flee the oppression of the Burmese army, intensified last summer, but it is not new. Zacharie Rabehi followed their daily life as fishermen.

Editorial work by Tess Raimbeau and Cloé Kerhoas - Agence Le Journal

Discover the portfolio here:
www.liberation.fr/planete/2018/01/28/les-rohingyas-et-la-mer_1625447

25/01/2018

EXHIBITION | We are more than glad to announce that Le Journal's photographer Charlotte Schmitz is part of the online exhibition "WHICH EUROPE" of PHmuseum curated by Rocco Venezia
In very good company with: Yannis Karpouzis, Fábio Cunha, Karim El Maktafi, Luke Richards, Sebastián Bruno, Valentina Abenavoli & Federico Clavarino

"Conceived as a vehicle to promote social integration and multiculturalism with economic and political stability, while avoiding new wars on the continent, the European Union has brought a certain wellness to its citizens in its first 60 years of life, but it seems still far away from reaching many of its founding ideals. With this exhibition, we aim to invite you to reflect on the current state of things and to ask yourself which Europe has been so far and which Europe you wish to see and live in the future."

Exhibition visible from 23 JANUARY to 19 MARCH, 2018
- phmuseum.com/exhibition/which-europe

24/01/2018

PUBLICATION | Le Journal's photographer Charlotte Schmitz - for Trouw (NL) and De Morgen (BE)

Le Journal's photographer Charlotte Schmitz had the opportunity to meet and to make the portrait of Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has sold over thirteen million books in sixty-three languages making him the country's best-selling writer.

"What literature needs most to tell and investigate today are humanity's basic fears: the fear of being left outside, and the fear of counting for nothing, and the feelings of worthlessness that come with such fears; the collective humiliations, vulnerabilities, slights, grievances, sensitivities, and imagined insults, and the nationalist boasts and inflations that are their next of kin ... Whenever I am confronted by such sentiments, and by the irrational, overstated language in which they are usually expressed, I know they touch on a darkness inside me." — Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Lecture

24/01/2018

PUBLICATION | "Baku shines like a star" - LJ photographer Engin Güneysu went to Baku (Azerbaijan) for Turkish Airlines (Skylife Magazine)

You want to travel to Baku? Check out this article and you'll have the best tips for visiting the city.

Known as the "Dubai of the Caucasus" and ‘bad kube’ (city of winds), Baku is the region's leading and most cosmopolitan city. Crowning its fast development since the 2000s with the Olympics, Baku has gained a presence in the tourism scene as well. The land where the first humans drew pictures on rocks now expands with streets filled with flashy signs.

Do not hesitate to have a closer look through this article:
www.skylife.com/en/2017-12/baku-shines-like-a-star

23/01/2018

It was such a pleasure to collaborate with Blink (with a very special thanks to Kyla Woods for her amazing work and support).

We hope you enjoyed it !

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