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Spectacular photos of storm ‘red sprites’ in France

The phenomenon occurs above storms and is rarely seen by the naked eye

Incredible photos of French Olympic athletes in action (no tricks used)

Photographer Mathieu Forget opens a stunning exhibition to mark the start of the Games at Berluti's Paris boutique

French photographer who captured US history gets retrospective in Nice

The exhibition details how Henri Dauman made a name for himself without expensive equipment or even press accreditation

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American photographer Annie Leibovitz honoured in France

The photographer is being inducted into the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris

Models with disabilities are focus of photographer’s new French show

Juggling a logistics job and a family has not stopped a UK-born photographer creating her latest exhibition celebrating disability

Restored Paris passageway has become a magnet for Instagrammers

Social media fame is the latest chapter in Galerie Vivienne’s chequered history as a shopping arcade

Photographer captures rare red sprite lightning near Dordogne chateau

This type of red lightning was only formally identified in 1886 and photographed for the first time in 1989

Amateur photographer’s shot of Dordogne skies sparks NASA interest

The remarkable image captures a rare phenomenon above a French countryside chateau

IN PICTURES: Your photographs of snow scenes from around France

Thank you to readers who shared their photographs with us. Our favourites win a Connexion 2023 France wall calendar

Jane Birkin’s brother publishes family album of France’s iconic couple

Andrew Birkin tells us about choosing to stay in the shadow of his sister, and his new book of behind-the-scenes photographs

Largest nature photography festival in Europe celebrates 25 years

The annual Montier Photo Festival, outside Troyes, was started by a ‘bunch of mates’ – this year 2,500 images of the natural world are on display

Photographer captures rare ‘floating’ Moon in south-east France

The image shows the Moon above the mountain-top Observatoire de Saint-Véran in Hautes-Alpes

Pictured: Last night’s ‘Thunder Moon’ above southwestern France

A Connexion reader captured the Moon’s larger, brighter appearance at 23:00

My photos of 'Swinging Sixties' spark memories in French care homes

Photos from celebrity photographer Jean-Marie Périer, France’s David Bailey, are displayed in care homes to end ‘terribly sad’ blank walls

Time magazine to use French artist’s 45-metre Ukraine print on cover

The artwork, showing a smiling girl, was presented in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv earlier this week, and held aloft by over 100 volunteers

Newly surfaced photos show wartime mass arrest of Jews in France

An outdoor exhibition showing these photos has been set up in Paris - it marks the 80th anniversary the country’s first mass roundup of Jewish people

Amazing ‘pocket art’ animals made from seeds and leaves

Graphic artist Sylvain Trabut's tiny creations take up to several days to make and some are as small as a one centime coin

Rooftop snapper reveals private Paris

Connexion's Samantha David meets an amateur lensman whose images of rooftops and residents are an internet smash

No detail too small for amateur French insect photographer

Pierre Anquet has taken insect macro-photos for four years and they are recognised as among the best in the world

French cultural digest: December 2020

A round up of five arts and culture stories creating a buzz in France in the last few weeks of 2020

French photographer captures rare snow leopard images

A French photographer has captured unprecedented close-up images of snow leopards, after eight months of expeditions in Tibet, at altitudes of up to 5,000 metres.

Charming story of photographer who befriends a fox

An unusual and touching friendship between a wildlife photographer and a young fox, pictured, who meet almost daily in a wood is to be made into a book.

The fan of forgotten French fleurs

Trouble for Air Force One snappers in France

A prefectoral decree means it is illegal to take or share pictures of aircraft on airport runways in one region

Hollywood glamour on show at Paris exhibition

Never-before-seen photographs of Hollywood stars such as Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, and Cher are on show at a gallery in Paris.

Poignant event may be last for many old soldiers

Professional photographer Sabina Lorkin has covered several of the D-Day commemoration events in Normandy but fears this will be the last where veterans will take part.

Ex-Police man’s life seen through a lens

Andy Summers first picked up a camera during the long down times when he was touring the world as lead guitarist with the 1970s rock band The Police.

Archive calls for new photos of old French communes

Photographers in the Haute-Garonne department (Occitanie) are invited to take part in a new project to document modern views of places seen in old postcards from the early 20th century.

What's on in France - November 2018

What to do, where to go and what to see in France

Lazy days of Doisneau in the Dordogne

Legendary lensman Robert Doisneau loved visiting the Dordogne on holiday, camera in hand. A new exhibition of images taken there impresses Jane Hanks

Photographers to the rich and famous

Portraits from Paris’s fashionable Harcourt studios have been coveted for decades, as Samantha David finds

Striking a pose for changing fashions

1960s fashion snapper Peter Knapp changed fashion photography, as a new exhibition reveals

The life of a soldier: boredom, exhaustion and terror

War photography means living with monotony and fatigue as well as a real possibility of death; two photographers tell writer Gary Lee Kraut why their images are worth so much

Photo of the month: June

Every month we will be sharing a photograph of a place in France. This month we take a look at Romorantin-Lanthenay in Loir-et-Cher.

Cultural digest, May: Cinema’s loss and wartime shots

A round-up of news, and those creating ‘le buzz’ in art, music and film

Photo of the month: April

Every month we will be sharing a photograph of a place in France. This month we take a look at the Abbaye de Sénanque in Vaucluse, Provence.

Green ray shines for start of spring

Strasbourg Cathedral offers a great chance for visitors and, especially, photographers to catch sight of a twice-a-year phenomenon when, if the sun shines, a ray of green light will fall on the pulpit above the statue of Christ

Photo of the month: Etretat

Every month we will be sharing a photograph of a place in France. This month we take a look at the Manneporte rock formation and beach at Etretat in Normandy

Photographer captures ghost-like figure in Gironde

One could be forgiven for mistaking this apparition on the Dune of Pilat in the Gironde (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) for a ghost - but it is actually the surprising result of a naturally-occurring phenomenon.

The iconic photographer still in vogue

As a new book about Robert Doisneau comes out, Samantha David talks to the lensman’s daughter about his work

Heavily-edited Paris photo prompts online jokes

A heavily-edited photo showing Paris to be in front of a mountain range has been mocked online.

Photo gallery: Your nature images from around France

We asked readers for their best nature shots - here are our favourites

Photographer honours French redheads in photoshoot

A French photographer has held a photo shoot in Quimper (Finistère) designed to honour and celebrate redheads in France, as he claims that "prejudice" against them is "a French thing".

Photo festival puts nature on display

Montier-en-Der, in Haute-Marne, is hosting its annual animal photo festival from October 16-19.

A picture paints a thousand words

With the annual Les Rencontres d’Arles photography festival kicking off this month, here we look at some useful photo-related phrases and French expressions.

Macron’s official photo is revealing

Elysée portrait is full of symbolism and president organised it all the way he wanted

See Thomas Pesquet’s great photos from space

Astronaut has shown some stunning views of France - this is Béziers and the Canal du Midi - and the rest of the world as he orbits Earth every 90 minutes

Meet secret photographer who catches life's most romantic moments

Couples know Paris as the ‘city of love’ and Gillian Harvey meets one of the people helping keep the memory fresh in their minds. Sandie Carol Dougnac tells of a job where she spends time hiding behind sofas or in a motorbike chase to catch an unwitting client

Young storm chaser beats Météo-France

A 20-year-old from the Var has turned his passion for storm-chasing into a career by setting up a weather forecasting service which can help vineyards and communes avert disaster from floods, hail and lightning.