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Jacques Camborde
Mi-nuit

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Jacques Camborde is a photographer who lives and works in Toulouse. He trains his lens on things unseen at first glance. What he reveals gives rise to a different perception of accepted meanings, an enchantment of the real.

11.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Alessandro Valente
Landscape

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Photographic works generally documenting the American social landscape. Particular interests include issues of land use and the environment, documentation and preservation of the architecture of the recent past, and documentary projects to create visual records in the manner of national...

21.01.2012[ read full story ]

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Peter Waterschoot
Blue Hour

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I always wanted to be a writer but now I am a photographer. My writing was mostly depictive, so taking up photography was something I just needed to do. I am strongly influenced by the idea of decay of Western civilisation.

11.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Sandra Fastré
Originel

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An autodidact since 2008, Sandra Fastré has developed a personal vision of everyday subjects, one that seeks to reconcile story and image. In Originel, a series begun un December 2011, Fastré chose to approach the cycle of life by blending the body with nature.

18.02.2012[ read full story ]

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David Fahey's selection

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3 portfolios. That is David Fahey's final selection. He made this comment: "I was particularly impressed by the diversity, subjects sent from around the world, I tried to be as objective as possible, thank you again for this opportunity."

14.01.2012[ read full story ]

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Valérie Gondran
Instants

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Valérie Gondran (b. 1969) lives and works in Grenoble. She first looked through a viewfinder when she was nine years old. This magic moment marked the beginning of an enduring link with photography. She strives to tell small tales of travels and journeys, without being too conclusive, so t...

14.01.2012[ read full story ]

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Thierry Bigaignon
Ergo Vivo

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Twelve images, some mysterious places, a heavy atmosphere and an unanimated body lying down could describe this series, imagined by the author. The Ergo Vivo series (“thus I live” in Latin) presents some real strong images, each of them made in weird places carefully selected by Thierry ...

18.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Steve Davis
As American Falls

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As American Falls fades from my life, I find myself vainly attempting to lock it's memory to a position of tenderness and beauty--backdropped by allergy ridden summers and iced over winters; of cleaning steamy french fry furnaces one hour, and frigid potato freezers the next.

14.01.2012[ read full story ]

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Guido Castagnoli
Provincial Japan

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Guido Castagnoli’s photographic investigation of the urban landscape of small Japanese towns takes us far from the stereotypes associated with contemporary Japan. There is no frenzied megalopolis, no rapidly expanding techno-city. Nor are there signs of the kind of extreme minimali...

14.01.2012[ read full story ]

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Can Buyukkalkan
Wonderland

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Full name, Oğulcan Büyükkalkan.Born in 29th of March, 1991 in İzmir, Konak. He studied at Halitbey İ.Ö.O. He went to Süleyman Taştekin high school after that.

18.02.2012[ read full story ]

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