Weekend Portfolio

Dan Hayon
The Time Machine

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I’m a 65 year old Romanian living in Paris since 1993. I do have now the French nationality. In Bucharest, many, many years ago, after graduating from the Art Academy, had ran away as quick as I could from the Ceausescu’s paradise. It was 1972.

19.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Aleix Plademunt
Dubailand

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The exhibition presented at gallery Waltman is a collection of images that revolve around the Dubailand project and have it as their backbone at the same time. Dubailand closely tracks some of the symbols that reference the action of man and his relationship with the environment of the ci...

19.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Jean-Luc Monterosso's selection

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12 portfolios. These are the first 12 portfolios chosen by Jean-Luc Monterosso, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. All the month of November, Jean-Luc Monterosso will select each weekend's portfolios.

05.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Studio Edelweiss
Children's dreams

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Studio Edelweiss consists of Jan Matthys (1973, Ghent, Belgium) and Michaël Van Den Berghe ( also 1973, Ghent, Belgium). In the past few years we have been specializing in some kind of staged, narrative photography. Quite often these images are children's dreams for grown ups, mag...

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Steve Ryan
Catholic Ireland

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Religious statues and grottos are commonly found in housing estates, schools, crossroads, churches, railway crossings and town squares throughout Ireland. Many were erected in the Marian year of 1954 as a celebration of Mary and to protect an area and bless the people around them.

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Robert Ellis
New Line

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Robert Ellis was born in Dublin in 1984 and is a graduate of MFA Photography in the University of Ulster, Belfast. His photography, which has been exhibited in Ireland and abroad, often deals with the notion of “home”. Working with small rural communities, his photographs rely on inherent or l...

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Paolo Patruno
Redemption

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Paolo Patruno is a humanitarian photographer who creates evocative, compelling images which promote action and change for the sake of the most vulnerable people in the world. Paolo’s social documentary work gives a powerful voice to the people that need support by capturing the real need fo...

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Miriam O Connor
Attention Seekers

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Miriam O’ Connor was born in Cork, Ireland in 1973 and currently lives and works in Dublin. In 2007 she graduated with an honors degree in photography from Dublin Institute of Technology. Funded by the Higher Education Authority of Ireland, O’ Connor recently completed a Research M...

03.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Mertxe Alarcón
Self-portraits

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Her first contact with photography was at age 16. She started working in photography shops then worked in photo labs for 15 years (Fuji Film Spain among them). During 2 years focuses in architectural photography, traveling throughout Spain. Then she guide her steps into publishing, fi...

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Matteo Bastianelli
Post war in the Balkans

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I am a 26 free-lance photographer, filmmaker and journalist based between Rome and Sarajevo. In 2007 I started working on long-term documentary projects, focusing mainly on social issues and post war consequences in the Balkans.

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