Featured Source for July 2025: Manuel Cohen
1 July 2025
akg-images is proud to represent Manuel Cohen.
Manuel Cohen is a renowned editorial and advertising photographer based in Paris and Barcelona, celebrated for his vivid, evocative imagery of World Heritage Sites, architecture, archaeology, and fine art. With a keen eye for light, form, and unusual perspective, his photographs breathe new life into historic and cultural landmarks, offering fresh insight into even the most familiar places.
akg-images holds around 65,000 images from Manuel Cohen, available for editorial and creative use.
Enjoy these curated selections. You can see more of the collection on the akg-images website.
Ateliers of the Notre Dame
Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, or Notre-Dame cathedral, with renovation work taking place, photographed on 6th February 2020 after the fire of 16th April 2019. AKG8213641 © akg-imags / Manuel Cohen
Carpet restorer Fabienne Wadoux of the Atelier de Rentraiture de Tapis, repairing the carpet from the choir of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris. AKG11633044 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Elisabeth de Bourleuf with a stained glass window from the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, damaged in the fire of April 2019. AKG11633835 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Rough assembly of the framework of the choir and nave for the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, replacing the one damaged in the fire of April 2019. AKG11633152 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Emma Groult, glass conservator, assembling a section of the Saint-Louis window, by Andre Rinuy, from the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, damaged in the fire of April 2019. AKG11633866 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Conservation and restoration of 13 waxed bronze chandeliers, each over 2m tall, from the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris. AKG10855991 © akg-images / Manuel CohenMexico
Palomar, pigeon house, dove-cots, topped with openwork stone crown, Puuc architecture. AKG1639178 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Head of serpent, Temple of the Eagles and the Jaguars with the Pyramid of Kukulcan in the distance, 1100–1300 A.D., Toltec architecture. AKG1639155 © akg-images
Detail of sequence showing the initiate during his journey, The Tzompantli Temple or Platform of the Skulls, 1100–1300 AD, Toltec Architecture. AKG1639131 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Founded in 1540, Campeche City was the first Spanish settlement of the Yucatan Peninsula and served as one of the most important ports in America, exporting forest products. AKG1637439 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Entrance to The Temple of the Magician or House of the Dwarf, c. 900 AD, Puuc architecture. AKG1639192 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Founded in 1540, Campeche City was the first Spanish settlement of the Yucatan Peninsula and served as one of the most important ports in America, exporting forest products. AKG1637437 © akg-images / Manuel CohenByzantine
Sleeping soldiers, detail from fresco of Women at the tomb, 13th century, in the upper church of St John's Church or Karsi Kilise, a two-storey rock-cut chapel, originally built 10th century. AKG10885336 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Virgin Eleousa, or Virgin of Tenderness, fresco, in the sanctuary arcade on the east wall of the New Tokali Church, built out of the eastern wall of the original Tokali Church, or Buckle Church, a rock-cut church built 950-60 AD, Byzantine, in Goreme Open Air Museum. AKG10884807 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Karanlik Church or Dark Church, with monastery, courtyard and triple-apse church cut into the soft volcanic tuff, 11th century, Byzantine. AKG10885321 © akg-images / Mamuel Cohen
Christ Pantocrator, blessing and holding the gospel, with medallions of St Thomas, St Philip, St Prochorus and St Thaddeus, frescoes, 1000-50 by Constantinople artists, on the central dome of the Karanlik Church or Dark Church. AKG10885277 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Goreme Open Air Museum, consisting of many rock-cut monasteries, refectories, churches and monks' cells, in Goreme, in Nevsehir province, Cappadocia. AKG10885227 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Adoration of the Magi, with Melchior, Balthasar and Gaspar offering gifts, fresco, detail, 1000-50 by Constantinople artists, on the 2nd bay of the north wall of the Karanlik Church or Dark Church. AKG10885303 © akg-images / Manuel CohenOur Favourites
Galloping horse, bronze Roman sculpture, 1st century AD, in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, or National Museum of Roman Art. AKG9460140 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Detail of drying skin, Chouara tannery, Fez, Morocco, pictured on February 22, 2009 in the morning. AKG1576595 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Gardens, Isola Bella, Isole Borromee, Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. AKG9460500 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Peacock Gate, City Palace, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. AKG8178285 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Sculptures of muses playing musical instruments (bagpipes and triangle), by Eusebi Arnau, with mosaics by Lluis Bru, around the back wall of the stage in the Concert Hall, at the Palau de la Musica Catalana. AKG4776768 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
Dinosaur on display beneath a stormy sky, Barcelona. AKG2296134 © akg-images / Manuel Cohen
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