Over the weekend of 28 - 29 September, the Centre national de l'audiovisuel, Luxembourg launched a major new space for photography in a transformed steel plant. 

The Financial Times and Wallpaper are the latest publications to report on this major event for world photography.

Read the articles here:

• Financial Times Life & Arts - 29 September 2012
  
• Wallpaper.com - 1 October 2012
  

The new space will house Edward Steichen's The Bitter Years, a groundbreaking exhibition first shown at MoMA in 1962 and later donated to the Luxembourg government upon Steichen's request. Steichen, at the time head of photography at the New York gallery, was born in Luxembourg and never forgot his roots, despite having left the grand duchy at an early age. 

The reimagined steel plant also provides a platform for contemporary photography. The inaugural display is a site-specific commission by British artist Stephen Gill.

The official opening on Friday 28 September was attended by Luxembourg's Culture Minister, Octavie Modert, who gave a speech about the importance of promoting the arts.

Image credit: Dorothea Lange,  Migratory cotton picker. Eloy, Arizona, 1940. Copyright: The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.