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London 2012 : Simon Roberts

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Simon Roberts is best known for his monographs Motherland and We English, both published by Chris Boot. But, over the past 18 months, the photographer has been looking at modes of representing the physical, political and social effects of economic change in Great Britain.

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London 2012 : Kurt Tong

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Kurt Tong was born in Hong Kong in 1977, but quickly moved to England. “I got sent here for school,” he says, “and I married and started a family here.” Growing up, he lived between three different cultures – that of Hong Kong, but also the Chinese and English cultures – bringing questions to ...

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London 2012 : Steve Bloom

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Beneath The Surface is Steve Bloom’s first exhibition of photographs he took in the mid-1970s in South Africa, during apartheid. “This body of work is a reflection of South Africa at the point where unstoppable dissent was just beginning, and it culminated in South Africa’s first ev...

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London Festival of Photography 2012

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The London Street Photography Festival is dead. Long lives the London Festival of Photography. Launched as a strict street photography festival in 2011, it has now widened its remit to encompass a broader range of photography from conceptual to documentary. “The London Street Photo...

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Créateurs d'images 2012, Nicolas Dhervillers

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'My sentimental archives' attempts to create a link between past and present, reactivating archive images (the characters) through the filter of a contemporary approach, a prism of a landscape// constantly renewed urbanity. The old images are therefore coloured, cut out, ...

31.05.2012[ read full story ]

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Créateurs d'images 2012, Thomas Jorion

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"My work is based on our perception of time, how it passes and especially its lack of linearity. Some places seem frozen as time passes by. While our society is developing and changing very rapidly, these places are submitted to a distorted passing of time. They seem to be life...

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Créateurs d'images 2012, Stephanie Tetu

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"Vacation homes intrigue me. Family homes with closed shutters, closed up for protection during the dead season. If by some coincidence a door is not sealed shut, a chapter opens, intimate and timeless in this imaginary place, the photographic exploration can begin."

31.05.2012[ read full story ]

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Créateurs d'images 2012, Maia Flore

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Maia’s working process is an examination of the coincidences between our world and our imagination. Her approach is to create a universe, in its every ethereal detail, in which she plays, and puts into play the scenes that are her photographs.

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Créateurs d'images 2012, Philippe Gueguen

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"These photographs began as a series for WAD magazine. By trying to respond to the question, “How to combine the idea of levels with fashion?” I came up with a diptych: show a building with its front wall removed, revealing the signs of life inside. I put the resulting color...

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Créateurs d'images 2012, Goef Kern

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"The images are from a series photographed for InterfaceFlor's 2010 advertising campaign. InterfaceFlor is a global company specializing in designer modular carpeting, advanced floor systems, and fabrics. The 2010 design carpet collection was called "The Memphis Collection," inspir...

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