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Marc Safran
Province de Guangxi

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Marc Safran is a certified Modern Literature Professor who is
completing a poetry collection. He has been traveling the world since
2000 and has discovered Haiti, Poland, Florida, Turkey, Tunisia, and
currently, China.

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Pierre Chiquelin
Effacement

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Trying to talk about the end, death can only be treated from a
distance. We are definitively condemned to treat the topic from a
distance. Always talking about something else. And it is that
something else that is in question here. Objects, funeral objects.

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Pietro Sala
Skieurs - Sciatori

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Pietro Sala was born in 1946, he lives in Lecco (Italy). It offers a range of skiers who appear to be suspended in a vacuum, in a kind of dance performed outside the ski slope: "What is important for me in these pictures is their pictorial aspect where skiers in the fog are reduced t...

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Priscilla Rattazzi
Best Friends

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I am 55 years old, I am a dual national (Italian-US). I have lived in New York for 36 years. I started photographing in high school, and worked as an assistant to Hiro after I graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1977.

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Sylvain Granjon
Slutwalk

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Sylvain Granjon is French. Born in 1971, he currently lives in Paris.
Self-taught, he works with a Leica, with film. The first SLUTWALK,
initiated in Toronto on April 3, 2011, was a spontaneous response to
the sexist comments of Michael Sanguinetti, a Canadian police officer
investig...

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Paola Guigou
Portraits d'Archives

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This series combined the works of Paola Guigou (photographer),
Elizabeth Sillard (3D graphic designer), and Viviane Korkmaz (digital
editor) who created an astonishing series of works, inspired by 18th
century paintings, critical in their day of the Establishment. They
provide...

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Scarpati
Cramp, slash and burn

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There was no master plan. No carefully tended career path. I loved rock and punk music. I saw things. Puzzles intrigued me. Bugs and lizards and creepy crawly things fascinated me. Influences possessed me. There had to be a way to put it all together… and those girls in the clubs who ...

08.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Jan Von Holleben
Magical clockwork

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"I once ruled the worlds. Not just one, but many. I ruled them with mirrors and lenses. I ruled them with light and shadow and time. Sometimes I ruled with a trick of the eye. Through my camera, an entire cosmos took shape, and each world within it seemed to operate by a certain u...

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Mario Taddeo: Berlusconi's Party

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Mario Taddeo is a photographer, lives in Benevento (Italy), where he was born in 1972. His first pictures of the place during his technical studies surveyor using the camera to describe architecture and construction, but his interests have turned to another aspect of photography that ...

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Aline Smithson
Hollywood at Home

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Growing up a stone’s throw from Hollywood and Vine, I have always been intrigued by the real and the manufactured Hollywood. The staged Hollywood at Home photographs from the 40’s and 50’s of celebrities at play or at home with their families are particular favorites of mine.

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