Festival

Montréal 2011
Raymonde April

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Raymonde April is known for her inspired photography of her private life which she balances at the confluence of documentary, autobiography and fiction. Loving the ordinary, she has forged a unique identity and loves to go back to the same places, to return to the same...

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Montréal 2011
Roger Ballen

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For Roger Ballen, photography is psychological reflection. Asylum (2004-2010) is the artist’s most recent work. The series mostly consists of scenes of birds in macabre, nightmarish or lewd sketches which Ballen composes meticulously, mixing drawing, theater, pa...

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Montréal 2011
Juan Manuel Echavarría

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Juan Manuel Echavarria was first a writer before turning to photography in the 1990s in reaction to the guerilla movements in Columbia. Bocas de Ceniza (Mouth of Ashes) is the name of the mouth of the Magdalena river where the bodies of victims of the violent ...

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Montréal 2011
Jim Verburg

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Jim Verburg is another artist who poses questions about human relationships. He focuses particularly on the questions of intimacy, sexuality and what is often left unsaid in such relations. For a Relationship (2007) and Album de famille numéro un (Family Album Number 1) (...

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Montréal 2011
Jesper Just

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Jesper Just likes short films with a background of soft and narrative music. In them, the artist presents men confronting their emotionality and mainly presents ambiguous love situations, reversible and often homo-erotic. The five mini-films (2002-2008) brought together i...

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Montréal 2011
Cristina Nunez

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Cristina Nuñez is adept at taking self-portraits in private. She started the practice in 1988 in an attempt to overcome personal problems. It quickly became therapy in the form of emotional liberation and enabled her to project herself as she wanted to be. Someone to L...

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Montréal 2011:
Mois de la Photo

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The 12th festival of Montreal’s Mois de la Photo opens this Thursday, a non-profit biennial of contemporary photography. Twenty-five artists will be exhibiting their work in fourteen places in the Canadian metropolis.

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Interview:
Stéphane Martin

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The Art Director of this third edition of Photoquai was entrusted to a photographer It is the first time, what was your intention?

16.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Canon Female Photojournalist Award 2011

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Presented by the French Association of Female Journalists (AFJ) in partnership with the Figaro Magazine. The winner is Ilvy NJIOKIKTJIEN for her project on Afrikaner Teenagers in post-Apartheid South Africa.

04.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Prix du Jeune reporter de la ville de Perpignan 2011

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This award (8000 euros), sponsored by the City of Perpignan, is given in recognition of talent and is designed the young photographer carry out a project. The jury awarded the prize to: ED OU / Reportage by Getty Images for his report on child soldiers in Somalia.

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