These are the 5 portfolios of the week, selected by Sam Stourdzé. Sam Stourdzé is the director of the Musée de l’Elysée and the editor-in-chief of the magazine ELSE. Stourdzé specializes in images. His research focuses on the contexts of their production, distribution and reception. For seve...

19.05.2012[ read full story ]

These are the first 6 portfolios selected by Sam Stourdzé. Sam Stourdzé is the director of the Musée de l’Elysée and the editor-in-chief of the magazine ELSE. Stourdzé specializes in images. His research focuses on the contexts of their production, distribution and reception. For several yea...

12.05.2012[ read full story ]

"About decline" weaves in and out of subconscious situations, lost souls, creating a fiction rooted in my daily life. I describe an unsettling twilight world where night will never fall. It isn’t an agony but more like a twilight eternity. Here is a world which is worn out, tense and sh...

01.12.2012[ read full story ]

It is not widely known that about 70,000 children work as miners in the highly dangerous and suffocating coal mines of Meghalaya which line the Jaintia Hills of Northeast India. The child miners descend into the mines using un-sturdy makeshift ladders made only from branches. O...

02.06.2012[ read full story ]

"Solos in the city", is an analysis on the close relationship that exists between men and the environment in which they live. Modern places, mostly cities, suburbs. Only a pretext for focusing attention between the analogies that exist between people and places in which they live every d...

11.08.2012[ read full story ]

This project called Cowboys, referring to the descendants of black slaves in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. Viable within the municipality of Santana do Livramento, on the border with Uruguay. Preserve the same customs of 200 years, dealing with cattle and sheep.

20.10.2012[ read full story ]

This project is called B & W TV (Black and White TV), is referring to people living in the suburbs of the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The project consists of scrap through television to give an identity to these people in need of attention i...

16.06.2012[ read full story ]

Ripped open buses, turned over earth, exploded cars and, here and there, overequipped soldiers, rooted to the spot, proudly showing off their heavy weapons. And then suddenly everything comes alive. They crawl, shoot, run. They kill and die. But not for real!

19.05.2012[ read full story ]

It’s dusk on a Wednesday afternoon in Dili, East Timor – an island nation some 600 kilometres off the coast of Australia. An hour ago, rain was pouring from the heavyset clouds, all but, flooding the streets, but that was an hour ago and the humidity has now reached 97 percent. ...

16.02.2013[ read full story ]

Ever since I was a child, I have heard that eskimos have dozens of different words to describe subtle nuances of white. When I arrived in Jharia, I couldn’t help wondering the same thing about the inhabitants of the largest mining area in India. Could these people have developed a s...

28.04.2012[ read full story ]