Weekend Portfolio

Brian Finke
Atlantic Challenge

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I just completed a photo essay at the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge… "The challenge begins on 4th of December, with 17 teams from around the world. More people have been into space than have rowed the Atlantic, and it is rightly considered as one of the toughest challenges on th...

03.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Guillaume Clavières's selection

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5 portfolios. The third selection by Guillaume Clavières, Director of the Photo Department at Paris Match, where he has worked since 1983.

18.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Arnis Balcus
Latvian Notes

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In this ongoing (2007-) project the artist has been exploring the everyday life in Latvia. Around 2006 Latvia was one of the fastest growing countries economically in the European Union. A few years later, as a result of crisis, Latvia became the poorest. These snapshots reflect the conse...

18.02.2012[ read full story ]

Weekend Portfolio

Guillaume Clavières's selection

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4 portfolios. The second selection by Guillaume Clavières, Director of the Photo Department at Paris Match, where he has worked since 1983. Applicants must send a minimum of 7 images, and a maximum of 15 (1024 pixels, 72 dpi), along with a short text of presentation of their approac...

11.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Philippe Lejeaille
Ombres Intimes

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To be and to seem, to see or to be seen, masked or deformed, masculine or feminine, sculpted or alive. A deceptive series featuring the body...

14.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Laura Noel
Smoke Break

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Laura Noel’s pictures show us the attitudes, defiance, enjoyment, resignation, and contentment, of those who continue to smoke cigarettes in the face of public disapproval. More importantly, these portraits reveal that for some smokers, cigarettes are a way to enter into a state of contemplat...

03.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Lynn Saville
Vacancy

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As a photographer, I work by night, more specifically, during the transition from daylight to night. In this liminal period, natural light gives way to streetlight, moonlight, window light, as well as advertisement and surveillance lighting. Several years ago, I began to use color film to captu...

21.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Matthieu Alexandre
Iraqi Refugees

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The overall concept is to represent each person with a symbolic object telling us about his personal history. The somewhat small size of the object reflects the enormous suffering of the person.
Some are posing with a medicine box, a suitcase, a bloodstained T Shirt, a diploma, an...

11.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Joakim Kocjancic
Paradises

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In 2006 after living one year in Stockholm I started to work on my paradise essay. It’s my personal vision on the city and its people. I’m searching for a direct, grittier mood, an atmosphere that is different from the usual stereotype of Stockholm and Scandinavia.
Through symbolic image...

17.03.2012[ read full story ]

Weekend Portfolio

Guillaume Clavières's selection

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3 portfolios. The first selection by Guillaume Clavières, Director of the Photo Department at Paris Match, where he has worked since 1983.

04.02.2012[ read full story ]

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