French Touch: French Kiss

Peter Turnley is photojournalist known for documenting the human condition and current events. Over the past two decades, he has traveled to eighty-five countries and covered nearly every major news event of international significance.

As Paris-based contract photographer for Newsweek from 1984 to 2001, his photographs have appeared on the cover of Newsweek 43 times.

The renowned street photographer lives in Paris since 1978. In the 1980s he assisted Robert Doisneau, the French photojournalist and creator of the famous “Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville (The Kiss).

Turnley is one of the preeminent photographers of the daily life in Paris of his generation. He has been documenting life in Paris since 1975 making images in the theme of beauty, romance and love. He is currently working on compiling his “French Kiss” series of nearly 40 years of work into a book with the same title.

Turnley has photographed world conflicts including the Gulf War, the Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Iraq.

During the end of Cold War (1985–1991) Turnley photographed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev more than any other Western journalist. He witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989, and Nelson Mandela walk out of prison after 27 years incarceration , and the ensuing end of apartheid in South Africa.

He was also present in New York at “Ground Zero” on Sept 11, 2001, and in New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He photographed the election and inauguration of President Barack Obama and produced a multimedia piece on this occasion for CNN.

To read more about his week-long street photography workshops, visit this his website and Facebook page.

French Touch

mercredi 16 octobre 2013

French Kiss

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