Ashley Gilbertson is a photographer with the VII Photo agency, and a principal at Shell Shock Pictures. Gilbertson’s photographs from Iraq where he worked from 2002 until 2008, gained him recognition from the Overseas Press Club who awarded Gilbertson the prestigi...

03.05.2013[ read full story ]

Palm Springs is not a festival. It’s a summer camp in the middle of the desert, a city from the 50s surrounded by majestic canyons out of which, it seems, at any moment, a horde of Indians could come galloping forth. The festival brings together a thousand enthusiastic photograph...

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I am a decent woman. A pretty good wife -- with a great therapist, otherwise I would’ve screwed this one up way too many times. A mother – I think this one I do best except between the hours of 6:15 and 7:30pm and certain whole days at a time. A daughter – I was a pretty terri...

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Today 23% of US publishers’ sales come from ebooks. As this number is expected to continue growing, many art book creators are not seeing their fair share of profit. 30% of books made are image based but only a fraction of these books have been digitized. They have not been digitiz...

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The event offered one delight after another. Now one last time, so as to feel the warmth of this magic moment as long as possible, let us revisit a few photographs by Eric Kroll, Olivier Castaing.

30.04.2013[ read full story ]

Last week Paris Photo LA was opening was opening on the west coast of the US. At the same time, the Czech capital was welcoming Prague Photo festival. For its sixth edition, the festival took place in Kafka’s birth house. With eight Czech and Slovakian schools invited, the FAMU, t...

29.04.2013[ read full story ]

Paris Photo Los Angeles has come to an end. Financially, the galleries saw mixed results, although they fared better than the doomsayers predicted. The festival will go on: director Julien Frydman has just signed on for two more years with Paramount. The event was a huge success. We w...

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I am interested in a man and his simultaneous being between nature and civilization, which leads to inner conflicts and tensions. 
I am interested in man as the author of the strangest discoveries, records and deeds - a story of human madnesses. I am interested in the formation and func...

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“Gaijin” is a fictional narrative, a tool for my quest for identity, where self-portraits demonstrate the intimate and solitary relationship that I have with myself. The mirror image is frozen in a figurative alter ego that serves as an anchor point. The aim of this work is to create “my o...

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Dreamlike symbols, mock-ups, installations, ready-mades ; with Handbook to the Stars, Peter Puklus builds a photo-documentation of a sculpture experiment, resembling the form and light exercises of the 20s avant-garde. Handbook to the Stars is an attempt to visualize the infinitely flexibl...

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