Festival
Bamako 2011
Uzoma Anyanwu
This series focuses on the ravaged tons of wood transported on waterways to the sawmill by the river banks, the third mainland bridge, in Lagos, leaving the environment untidy and littered with dust from sawn wood. From a distance, one can see the bed of logs, serially arranged along the s...
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Festival
Bamako 2011
Akintunde Akinleye
Nigeria has huge resources, but two of these stand out: a population of 140 million people and a vast crude oil deposit, located in the deep waters of the Delta, one of the world’s vast wetlands. In 1956, the Shell Petroleum Development Company explored and discovered crude oil in lar...
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Festival
Bamako 2011
Nana Kofi Acquah
In November 1998, the government demolished the colonial abattoir in Accra. It was declared an environmental hazard since it stood close to the place where all of Accra’s faecal matter gets dumped. The demolition was to justify a $4.3 million grant from the Canadian International Develo...
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Festival
Bamako 2011: Interview with Samuel Sidibé
Christian Caujolle : How does the Managing Director operate at the Rencontres of Bamako?
Samuel Sidibé : The General Manager is in many ways the General Director of the Biennale. He determines, with the Institut Français and the Artistic Directors, ...
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Festival
Bamako 2011: Christian Caujolle presents
Bamako is hot. Very hot. 70° mornings seem almost cool compared to the scorching 95° days. All the more so because the sandstorms, light though they may be, pollute the dust to make it all the more oppressive. Just two days ago, as the fog drowned the early morning, fishermen’...
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Festival
Deauville 2011
David Armstrong
David Armstrong born in 1954 in Arlington Massachusetts attracted critics attention with his male nudes. In the 1990's he started photographing urban landscapes and soft landscapes
to contrast with the sharpness of his portraits. Streets lamps, neon signs and cars a...
28.10.2011[ read full story ]
Festival
Deauville 2011
Massimo Vitali
Massimo Vitali was born In Como Italy in 1944 he started photographing beaches in 1994, first those near his house in Tuscany. Massimo Vitale photographs urban beaches and rarely wild beaches, what he likes is the interaction between the city and the leisure park th...
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Festival
Deauville 2011
Romain Mader
Romain Mader was born in 1988 at Aigle in switzerland with a diploma in data processing actually in his second year in photography at ECAL his favorite photographers Larry Sultan, Martin Parr, Nikki, S. Lee, Roman Signer, Richard Kern and Taryn Simon.
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Festival
Deauville 2011
Namsa Leuba
Namsa Leuba was born in Switzerland. In 2011 she finished her studies in visual communications in the photography section of ECAL « Ecole Cantonale d'art de Lausanne. »
In 2010 the jury « planches contact « gave her an award for students of photography schools, She ear...
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Festival
Deauville 2011 Yves Marchand, Romain Meffre
Both born around Paris in 1981 and 1987. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre started photography on their own, fascinated by architecture and by ruins they published in 2010 the book « EM »
Detroit remains of the american dream that was a critical and financial success.
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