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Monica Denevan
Portraits from Burma

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These images are part of my ongoing series, “Songs of the River ~ Portraits from Burma,” which depicts the isolated figure within a spare and graphic river setting. For the past eleven years, I have been returning to Burma to photograph friends and acquaintances whose livelihoods...

29.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Leandro Sanchez
Ramona Gardens

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In February of 2011, I went with a LA friend to visit Ramona Gardens (Los Angeles, CA), a surreal place where the past seems to not leave. While being shown around the neighborhood by the locals, we realized this place has been a battlefield... every 30 feet or so our resident guides ...

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Kristina Sereikaite
I am. I will be.

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Borderline feelings of a female soul don‘t depend on age or experience. They become acute at the presence of a frightening reality and visible in the moments when the horror of existence become associations and vice versa. The place between “I am” and “I will be” is mystical and...

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Julien Coquentin
Tôt un dimanche matin

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This series comes from a photography diary that I have been keeping since I arrived in Montreal with my wife and our one year old daughter in April 2010.

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Jennifer Hudson
Baptism

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Jennifer Hudson grew up in a spiritual and conservative home in rural Texas where she cultivated her curiosity and imagination. Experimenting with her artwork by offering insight and awareness about intensely personal experiences, she developed delicate “inventions”. These creations carefull...

29.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Sezayi Erken
Istanbul Book

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Istanbul Book is a personal project that aims to document Istanbul, which is one of the oldest city in the world, by using newest digital technologies and different techniques.

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Chris jordan
Ushirikiano

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This year I was honored to be chosen for the Prix Pictet Commission, which took me on a thousand-mile safari in a part of Kenya that most tourists never see. There I encountered a confederation of NGO’s working closely with local tribes to create a sustainable way of life based on principle...

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Chiara Tocci
Life after Zog

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Life after Zog and other stories is an ongoing project bringing to light an evolving web of stories, both personal and political, set against the wider cultural and geographical landscape of Albania. As a child, Tocci witnessed streams of disillusioned Albanians docking on the c...

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Carla Berger
Female Fragments

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I paint with my camera. My goal is to reveal the abstract nature of found, urban images. I have found my focus in the urban landscape; roaming the city’s back streets depicting the disorder of decay and the random marks that end up on walls.

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Chadwick Tyler

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For the last five years, Chadwick Tyler has been a singular voice in photography both in fine art and in fashion. What was originally considered too dark, romantic, and subtle, is now acknowledged as his very personal narrative. He focuses on the feminine strength in atypical ways to a...

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

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