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Risk Hazekamp
Solitary fruit

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Solitary Fruit 10 of a series of 20 (mostly) black & white analog photographs made in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama: the Deep South. At the end of 2011 I followed the 1959 route of the (white) American writer John Howard Griffin, who in his book Black Like Me reports of his travels...

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Pacifico Silaano
Where the boys are

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This project, entitled “Where The Boys Are,” takes its name from the Connie Francis song about longing and young love. Consisting of large scale photographs and appropriated imagery, I use gay iconography and specific references to the 1950s, 60s and 70s, to examine life before t...

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JJ Levine
Switch

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This series of diptychs presents pairs of seemingly different "heterosexual couples" interacting intimately in a studio setting. Upon closer examination, the viewer will recognize that each pair of couples is comprised not of four models, but two. This parody of prom-style portraits challenges ...

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Alvaro Laiz
Transmongolian

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The Secret History of the Mongols, considered to be the oldest Mongolian language literary work, is the single significant native account of Mongolia's rise to power around the 12th century AD. Providing a clear narration of the vicissitudes that brought a dispersed land of nomads to beco...

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Lorenzo Tiburgo Transportraits

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"Transportraits" is a series of 20 x 24 inch portraits of transgendered men, photographed against an oil-painted backdrops that I create using the landscape painting instructions from Bob Ross', The Joy of Painting. Photographers are thought of as capturing a replica of the original su...

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Luca Desienna
Trans Islam

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In the small town of Jogiakarta, Central Java, there is a community of threehundred Muslim transgenders that are trying to defy gravity! They gather together to pray Hallah, they adopt children from the street, they run controversial NGOs and they support one another in the quest to gain m...

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Tobin Bryce Jones
Morine

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The world as a whole may have come around somewhat to the idea that their exist a whole spectrum of sexualities from heterosexual to homosexual and beyond. In Africa, a continent who's societies on the whole are still very traditional, such ideas are only now starting to be raised as an ent...

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The Amsterdam Pride Photo Award 2012

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Today the Journal is entirely devoted to the exhibition of the Pride Photo Award, which opened this weekend in Amsterdam. The Journal was made ​​entirely by Christian Caujolle. This is the great talent of Christian, to discover a photography that is not frequently published.

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Fabian Weiss
Lala Life

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Being lesbian or bisexual still signifies harsh living conditions in modern China. Since 1997 it is not longer illegal to be homosexual and in 2001 homosexuality has even been removed from the Ministry of Health's list of mental illnesses. But despite all loosened restrictions and the increas...

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Pierre Liebaert
Boutographies Award 2012

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In Macquenoise, a Belgian village near the French border, Pierre Liebaert has chronicled the story of a mother and her two farmer sons. He presents the narrative of a civilization on the wane in Europe today, the world of a marginalized family and of economic structures rep...

27.09.2012[ read full story ]

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