“I am an African-European, born in Switzerland and my project was accomplished on a trip to Guinea Conakry. In this work I was interested in the construction and deconstruction of the body, as well as the depiction of the invisible. I have studied ritual artifacts common to the c...

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“My work revolves about the way we experience everyday life and how that affects the way we deal with each other. My images are documents, taken from a candid reality. But what they really seem to document is the way our perception of the world around has been coloured by...

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“The series Cubes for Albers and LeWitt explores the possibilities of manipulating time, space, perception and, in particular, the additive system of colour. The images from this series are constructed onto single sheets of 4×5 film. The subject in reality is monochromatic. T...

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The 28th annual Infinity Awards of the International Center of Photography were held last night in New York. This year, ten winners were honored, including two Asian photographers known for their political art, Daidō Moriyama and Ai Weiwei, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award and th...

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Art - Stan Douglas was born in 1960 in Vancouver, where he continues to live and work. Since the late 1980s, he has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often take their points of departure in local settings, fro...

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Applied / Fashion / Advertising - Maurice Scheltens was born in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, in 1972 and Liesbeth Abbenes was born in Asten, The Netherlands, in 1970. In 2002, they put an ampersand between their names to visualize and consolidate their working relationsh...

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Publication - The Worker Photography Movement [1926–1939] forms part of the research process undertaken for the exhibition A Hard, Merciless Light at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina from April to August 2011. The volume is designed to reconstruc...

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Lifetime Achievment - Daido Moriyama is one of Japan's leading figures in photography. Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed post World War II Japan, his black and white photographs express a fascination with the cultural contradictions of age-old traditions that pe...

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ICP Trustees Award - John "Launny" Steffens is the Founder of Spring Mountain Capital, LP, an alternative investment firm. Prior to founding Spring Mountain Capital, he spent 38 years at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., where he held numerous senior management positions, includi...

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Writing - Writer, curator, and artist David Campany was born in London in 1967. He writes about documentary, photojournalism, conceptual art, cinema, fashion photography, archives, and architecture. He has published essays on many artists and photographers including Rinko Kawauchi,...

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