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Image Singulières 2013: H. de Wurstemberger

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During several visits to the Western Sahara, refusing press trips and naive propaganda, Hugues de Wurstemberger shared the everyday lives of Sahrawis for a long period of time. Since 1991, he has crafted a portrait which expresses his warm regard for these people and the c...

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Image Singulières 2013: Martin Bogren

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Teenagers are bored stiff in the south of Sweden so young people meet on the outskirts of the villages for car chase mirroring Rebel without a Cause. Big American cars are not involved but old converted Volvos are used that can be driven from the age of fifteen. The cars form a...

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Image Singulières 2013: Cédric Gerbehaye

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The view is broad, sweeping. The space, at once immense and bounded and goes from white to deepest black, the entire spectrum of greys is present, inscribing the materials in the implacable structure of the vanishing lines. On the right, the triangle of the sea wall matches ...

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Image Singulières 2013: Gianni Cipriano

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Starting from the premise (Aristotle) that imperfection is the greatest of perfections, Gianni Cipriano, a Sicilian photographer who splits his time between New York and Palermo, is proposing a tour of Italy under Berlusconi and a look at its silicon beauties. He has travelled...

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Palm Spring Photo Festival: Lani Garfield

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The Orange Martini Project is a one-of-a-kind art display by photographer, Lani Garfield, featuring lenticular prints that "move" when viewed from different angles that show the fun in Palm Springs, California lifestyle and it's amazing community. With participation ...

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Image Singulières 2013: Ad Van Denderen

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Dutch photographer Ad van Denderen fits perfectly within the documentary tradition, which has proven so strong in his country over the last few decades. He devotes himself mainly to long-term photojournalism investigations, as in GO NO GO, for which he spent seven years with m...

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Image Singulières 2013: Eugenia Maximova

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Born in Bulgaria, daughter of a famous painter, Eugenia Maximova documentary photographs exhibit few effects but much finesse. Le Journal previously covered her series of kitchens in the Balkans, where across the pastel spaces one could read the signs of a common culture. Wit...

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Image Singulières 2013:
T. Vanden Driessche

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Photography is rarely very funny, and this year’s program at Sète is hardly an exception, with series about memory, identity and social questions. The exhibition of Thomas Vanden Driessche, a Belgian documentary photographer and a member of the collective Out Of Focus, b...

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Image Singulières 2013: Roger Ballen

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In the “Outland” series (1995 – 2000), Roger Ballen focused on white, marginalized populations around Johannesburg in South Africa. Gradually resisting the codes of classic documentary photography used in his previous series, he tackled an original approach in th...

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Image Singulières 2013: Gabriele Basilico

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Every year, the association Cétavoir gives a different photographer carte blanche to produce a portrait of the city. In 2013, the honor was intended for Gabriele Basilico. Illness prevented him from seeing the project through, but even a few weeks before his death, he expre...

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