This segment is a full one covering a favorite gallery, a thoughtful and innovative book artist and two outside events - each featuring two artists! 

Julian Sander is the great-grandson of August Sander and you will hear me tease him about his particularly deep photo-DNA. Each year he innovates and offers an informative and educational experience at his booth. He begins our interview with a childhood song - inspired by the microphone I asked him to use. Our photo was taken by my friend and fabulous photographer Rania Matar — she dropped like a Ninja into view to capture me at work. 

I met photographer and book artist Tamsin Green last year at Polycopies. This year we discuss her amazing immersive experience to create her limited edition book, Walking Out of  Sleep. I am happy to own one and know she makes each order by hand. She brings a sustainability lens to all she does in art and life. Please explore her company, Manual Editions. She founded a global network looking to share knowledge and make a lighter impact on our environment while creating objects of interest and beauty — SSP, The Sustainability Photobook Publishing Network.

My Saturday was spent at MEP — Maison Européenne de la Photographie. My first entailed the poetic documentary on Robert Cumming, On Closer Inspection. He was having a moment at the fair as 3 galleries featured his work and held 2 gallery talks I attended. I was pleased my latest podcast featured the first posthumously published book on his work, Very Pictorialist Conceptual Art. The 20-minute movie is being shared for a few weeks, here.

I have long followed Vivian Sassen, the Dutch-based artist who has a global following and mastered the blend of commercial photography with the fine art world. She is sought to represent luxury fashion brands in her unique visual style. She makes no distinction between her life and artwork - all aspects are organic to her evolving visual voice. She embraces the moving image, collage, and sculpture and moves fluidly between mediums to tell the stories she deems need to be told. I added the introduction By Anja Aronswsky Cronberg of the talk described below to my opening intro of this segment:

Round table — Photography, fashion and art: what role can collaboration play?

To coincide with the exhibition VIVIANE SASSEN — PHOSPHOR: Art & Fashion, the MEP is hosting a round-table discussion with photographers Viviane Sassen and Nick Waplington. Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, founder of the magazine Vestoj, will moderate the discussion.

On Sunday I made my way to two very diverse exhibitions by women photographers at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson. This exhibition space is in the heart of the Marais and is a very manageable size. I was especially drawn to the layered wall with images inspired by the 1950 book, Glorify Yourself by Eleanore King, full of Hollywood Beauty Tips. (see PDF)

While I have been aware of Ruth Orkin's photographs I did not know of her bike trip across the U.S. which was the basis of this sweet exhibit. Ruth did not need a book to find her way to glorify herself by fulfilling a dream of independence and becoming an adept photographer along the way!