Weekend Portfolio

Aleksander Bochenek
I Love My Sudder Street

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This is the story of Roshni Mallick and her family living on Sudder Street in the center of Kolkata, India. Like life itself this is an ongoing project. It all began 3 years ago in early 2009 when I made friends with Roshni quite by accident, in her home city. What fascin...

28.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Al Mayuk
Pais

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My first inspiration is humanist photography. I began in 1997 in the studios of the Centre de l’Image in Mexico and showed my first films in their makeshift labs, composing photographic scenes on the trails of Indian villages and in the streets of Mexico City. I further developed my vision during my t...

19.05.2012[ read full story ]

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Christian Caujolle's selection

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These are the final 6 portfolios selected by Christian Caujolle. He included this message with his selection: "Already a month has gone by! So many unexpected images. They came from all over, in waves, overwhelming but never tedious, with each one showing a desire and expressing its div...

22.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Jordi Beltri
Touriste et jus de fruits

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The title of this project is Touriste et jus de fruits (Tourist and Fruit Juice). It was produced in the La Boqueria marketplace in the famous Ramblas district of Barcelona. The tension between darkness and light gives the colorful images a special intensity. I studied photogr...

09.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Matías Salgado
Mareo

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This is an essay about the sea of South America and the condition of its beauty today. In the last twenty years the sea landscape changed a lot, because of many reasons it isn´t the same I knew when I was a child.

28.07.2012[ read full story ]

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Manuel Vazquez
Traces

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In a society full of prying eyes like ours, everyone can become both spectator and actor in the quotidian spectacle. Choreographed crowds transit the nameless global city in their daily commuting where self-absorbed pedestrians experience the paradox of public space; between anonymity and scru...

28.07.2012[ read full story ]

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Gabriel Coutagne
Limite

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My name is Gabriel Coutagne. I'm 27 and live in Paris. I've always been intrigued by photography's ability to signify, first and foremost, the physical presence of the photographer himself, faced with what he sees. Limite seeks to put this idea of presence into practice, through the photogra...

21.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Roberto Boccaccino

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This is something different from what I usually did in photography and from what I showed around in the past years. I’ve been working basically in documentary photography trying to develop a personal approach and language, following a research about my generation.
In this case I focused on a diffe...

21.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Stephane C

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My photography is based on the idea that reality is an ambivalent structure, a mental frontier between things. An undefined border separating concrete and elusive fields, materiality and the invisible. It's also a way to describe in a poetical way, our soul's inner struggle between peace and animality, bet...

21.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Christian Caujolle's selection

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Christian Caujolle was a critic and picture editor at the French newspaper Libération until 1986 when he created the photography agency Agence VU'. In 1988 he created the VU' Gallery and is currently a teacher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, an independent cur...

15.04.2012[ read full story ]

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