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Nordic Light 2012
Kirsten Klein

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Kirsten Klein is one of Denmark’s most acclaimed photographers and possibly its best landscape photographer. When she was a young girl Kirsten moved from Copenhagen to a home in the countryside, 75 meters from the sea and two kilometres to the nearest neighbour. Her trips to and from...

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Nordic Light 2012
James Mollison

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James Mollison was born in Kenya and grew up in England. He has studied art and design at Oxford Brookes University, and film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design. After graduation he moved to Italy in order to work at Benetton´s creative department, Fabrica. Today he...

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Nordic Light 2012
Haakon Brox

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It was actually a coincidence that led Haakon to choose photography. When he was studying child care in Trondheim, he acted as assistant on an advertising film shoot. During the shoot he got to know advertising photographer Geir Mogen, and this led to a period working as photographic a...

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Nordic Light 2012
Greg Gorman

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The American portrait photographer Greg Gorman is world renowned for his portraits of Hollywood celebrities. His specialty is classic black-and-white photographs that leave the viewer full of wonder. During the past 40 years Greg has become one of the most sought after celebrity and ad...

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Nordic Light 2012
Farzana Wahidy

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Farzana Wahidy is part of National Geographic’s All Roads Photography Program, which supports talented, self-taught photographers from around the world. She is the young photojournalist who portrays Afghan women’s lives to the outside world though a camera concealed in a burka.

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Nordic Light 2012
Bruce Davidson

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Bruce’s love of photography started at the early age of seven when he got his first camera. This he used to photograph his neighbourhood in the suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. “Most boys of my age had a dog,” he says laughing, “I had a camera.”

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Nordic Light 2012
Abe Frajndlich

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These five sections of pictures all fuse with each other. Yesterday is today. Today is tomorrow. Time is only and ever now. And as my friend, aaron siskind tells us, "photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured for ever...it re...

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Milan 2012 - Validfoto (SP)

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Valid Foto BCN is the initiative project of 4 people who decided to open a space dedicated to the exhibition of photography and events related to the medium. 
The gallery's commitment is to promote photography as a valuable art form. It presents and promotes artists within the gallery own...

06.05.2012[ read full story ]

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Milan 2012 - Aike Dellarco (CN)

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AIKE-DELLARCO started its activity in 2005 in Palermo Italy, exhibiting Italian and international emerging artists. Among the artists represented, since the very beginning, a special attention was given to chinese contemporary art. In 2008 AIKE-DELLARCO opened a branch within the famo...

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Milan 2012 - Rosenfeld Gallery (Is)

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Founded by Eliezer Rosenfeld in 1952, the Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, has become one of the most prominent exhibition spaces in the local art scene. The artists in its represented ranks have flourished under its wing, becoming the cream of Israeli artists. By the 1970s the gallery...

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