From Malaysia to Mali and from Burkina Faso to Indonesia, Colombia or Russia, wherever photographer Françoise Huguier points her lens, women trust her and share something of their private selves with her. The portraits below do not cover the full diversity of a photographer who cannot be pigeonholed, and who currently has two exhibitions devoted to her work in Paris (details below). But together these photographs show how, without a word being exchanged, two women who are face to face can communicate.
K-Pop in Malaysia 2014 In the beginning K-Pop – short for Korean Pop – was a musical genre that grew out of South Korean popular music and Anglo-Saxon pop music. In the 1990s entertainment companies launched the first girl and boy bands. But the phenomenon snowballed and spread outside of South Korea and across south-east Asia. Pop concerts are noted for the hysteria they create among teenage fans, and K-Pop has come to represent a way of life as well as a fashion and musical style. As seen here, Malaysian school pupils and students have embraced the phenomenon with enthusiasm, dressing up in the style of their idols.
