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Ronan Guillou
Angel

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With a majestic preface by Wim Wenders, Ronan Guillou’s first work arrives under the highest auspices. The fruit of a years-long trek across 17 American states (like the photographer in Wenders’ Alice in the City), Angel depicts an America in suspense.

27.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Othello De'Souza-Hartley
Confessions

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On a Wednesday afternoon in broad daylight, my house was burgled.
When I returned from work I didn't realise at first but then it dawned on me my laptop was gone containing all my pictures and films from pretty much the past five years, none of it was backed up.

25.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Ken Schles
Oculus

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Oculus is the most recent book by Ken Schles, he interrogates the relationship between pictures, memory, and light. In his introduction, Ken Schles writes: "We infuse the world we encounter with meaning, with social and symbolic significance based on the value we place up...

25.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Mari Sarai
Naked

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I wanted to express that the nudity of a woman is not limited to fulfilling men’s erotic desires. She is worthy of respect. A naked woman can possess her own style, independence and strength.

16.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Malerie Marder
Carnal Knowledge

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In an early seminal experience for Malerie Marder, a family friend invited her to photograph her with her lover, naked in a hotel room. This set the tone for Marder’s work for the next decade. Her photographs of nudes are composed simply, her subjects sitting near th...

24.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Miss Rosen
Book Review

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We have a disturbing relationship with animals, perhaps founded in the idea that we are not one of them. As humans, we enjoy creating hierarchies where there may be done, consistently creating artificial tests of intelligence that elevate us above the animal kingdom. Does anyone think it stra...

21.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Olivo Barbieri
Dolomites Project 2010

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The name "Dolomites" is derived from the famous French mineralogist Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu who was the first to describe the rock, dolomite, a type of carbonate rock which is responsible for the characteristic shapes and colour of these mountains. In 2009, the Dolomites were...

18.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Mariana Cook
Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries

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With Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries, Mariana Cook departs from her portrait work. In fact the she is best known for her intimate character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye, as published in her much-acclaimed collections Fathers and Daughte...

18.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Marco Signorini
Earth/Heart

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This book has been conceived as a follow-up to his previous publication Echo (2006). Earth/Heart includes photographs taken in apparently untouched stretches of landscape in Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Italy and Fanø Island in Denmark.

18.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Mark Abrahams

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American photographer Mark Abrahams is one of the foremost fashion and magazine cover photographers of the past two decades. In his photographs he follows an opposite direction to the predominant commercial, spacing from the cinema to the theatre, from the art to the literature, up to the politics. Ab...

18.10.2011[ read full story ]

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