Weekend Portfolio

Corinne Mariaud
Climax

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I stage ordinary people in order to beautify nature and address the question of identity in modern society. I use the body, the strengths and resistances that define it, to express the fragility and vulnerability of the human being in its environment, but also its capacity to disrup. With ...

26.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Cédric Calandraud
Far away, the lights

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This project is called Far away, the lights. It is part of my work in that it is the result of the past two years of living in two cities. When i decided to move to Sweden, I tried, for the last six months, to memorize the images and feelings I had during the past t...

26.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Cecile Menendez
Rapid Eye Movement

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As an avid dreamer, I explore specific memories and sequences that appeared to me during my dreams. I am not trying to present a dream-like vision of the body, but simply to photograph my subjects more impulsively, sometimes candidly or by having them pose. By working in this libe...

26.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Carolina Arantes
Living to leave

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Originally from Brazil, I have lived for the past three years in Paris. I would like to share with you my report on the elderly in France, taken last July in Arles, France. The lives of the elderly are inseparable from our own daily lives. And yet the elderly, even members of our fa...

26.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Arno Brignon
Joséphine

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You can’t write good literature with good thoughts alone. And you can’t take good pictures if you let your emotions get in the way. Arno Brignon, a young father and photographer, know this well. He offers us this a vision of a moment from his family life, seen from a distanc...

14.01.2012[ read full story ]

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Anabel Werbrouck
Familles orphelines

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In all countries where you have a big HIV/AIDS epidemic, at first you don’t see any orphans at all, as they are absorbed by the traditional systems. And then all of a sudden you seem to reach some type of breaking point and you start finding these children in the streets, you st...

26.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Jean-Luc Monterosso's selection

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5 portfolios. Jean-Luc Monterosso was selective, to say the least. 5 portfolios for week two of the director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. You only have six days left to submit your portfolio to Jean-Luc Monterosso.

19.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Mairead Keating: The Boys of Barr na Sráide

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My name is Mairead Keating, and I am a 24 year old, Irish, Photography student. I am currently studying in the Edinburgh College of Art, at Edinburgh University, (First Year). I studied Interior Architecture for three years in Cork Institute of Technology and then pursued ...

19.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Dan Hayon
Inside Agathe

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My name is Dan Hayon. I'm a 65 five year old Romanian living in Paris. After completing my studies at the Bucharest's Art Academy in the late sixties, I left Romania and practically stoped taking pictures. Later, much later, encouraged by Frank Horvat, I started again.

03.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Agnieszka Wrzesniak
Silent Places

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The industrial society is now redefining its identity and the previous working spaces and buildings are now losing their meaning. I am especially intrigued by the heat and power generating building in Bytom. The power plant used to be an integral part of this industrial city, howev...

19.11.2011[ read full story ]

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