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Anja Hitzenberger
Chinese Fast Food

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This series — shot in the fall of 2011 in a temporary food court set up inside Beijing’s Olympic Park — reveals a visually and viscerally overloaded fast-food culture that may make some mouths water and other bellies ache. Concentrating on the saturated visual displays of the foo...

31.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Markel Redondo
Time of Crisis

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Across Europe, Spain is one of the countries taking longer to recover from the economic crisis. In Spain, there is an estimate of 1.200.000 empty houses due to the financial instability of the real state market that is affecting the majority of Spain. At the same time, Spain has one of ...

26.05.2012[ read full story ]

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Sean Lee
Homework

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I started making images about my family on a regular basis upon completing my course in the School of Theology in Singapore. It was also around that time that I started having a sneaky suspicion that the reason why I have always felt the need to create is because I was first created by an uncreate...

25.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Rodrigo Albert
Insertion

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The brutal life conditions inside Brazilian prisons, where tens of men cohabit few square meters’ cells under very bad health and hygiene service as well as, the random procedure of convicts’ placement managed by security authorities reveal the State’s inability to guarantee imprisonment in...

25.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Md. Arifur Rahman
Spiritual Journey in Mazar

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It is a story about faith, belief, spirituality and mysteries related with the Shrine of Hazrat Sahjalal (Rd) who was a major sufi saint of Bangladesh and is the most celebrated personality of the region of Sylhet. Shah Jalal's name is associated with the Muslim conquest...

07.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Stephen Kelly
Qi Lihe

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My projects are visual narratives gathered over extended periods of time and influenced greatly by my deep interest in social, political and environmental issues, with a particular emphasis on China.
My series Qi Lihe is an intensely intimate portrait of life within one district on the outskir...

07.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Tanguy Loyzance
Possibilites d'une ville

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"We could be in California, in Japan, in West Africa or... Paris. All cities look the same: they look like us. I love La Defense." Tanguy Loyzance, picture maker. Having photographed war and beauty, I am now enamored of the city.

07.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Dinu Mendrea
On the street

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I was born in 1970 in Bucharest, immigrated in 1985 to Israel. Before, during and after my graduation from the Art Academy's photography department in Jerusalem I worked for many different European book publishers, magazines and newspapers, while a couple of my projects were exhibited wor...

09.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Dave Lykes Keenan
Fair Witness

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In late 2010, with the encouragement of Eli Reed of Magnum Photos, who is based in my home town of Austin, Texas, I decided it was time to leave my mark on the 21st century with a book of my street photography. Reed has encouraged me by saying repeatedly that my work is book-worthy and...

09.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Candace Feit
Stillness

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This body of work was made in September 2011 on the south Indian coast in Tamil Nadu. In India, where personal space is often limited, being close to the sea promotes a different set of relationships as people often gather to use this public space - both in groups and by themselves.

07.04.2012[ read full story ]

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