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W.M Hunt's Selection

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"I was in the circus … until the accident". That is a reasonable version of how Sylvain Granjon replied to my "tell me about yourself" question last summer in Arles. My heart soared with the prospect of pictures made by someone who has been communicating to a very different - non-photographic - ...

23.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Kamil Tyebally
From Baghdad

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The attached images are part of an ongoing collaboration between the artist and his father who is an expatriate living and working in Baghdad. The artist's father would send iPhone images of his surroundings, experiences, and nuances he felt the artist would be intrigued by. The cell pho...

23.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Laurence von der Weid
Nuna

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Nuna has lived alone in her large house for over twenty years.
Every room in the house is a testament to her gradual and organized accumulation of objects of all kinds. Often useless, sometimes unusual, all hold the mysterious power to revive her past. The feeling comforts her when the s...

02.03.2013[ read full story ]

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Tamara & Yoshi Kametani
IPG

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IPG is an experimental collaborative project of artists Tamara and Yoshi Kametani. Yoshi (USA, b. 1980) and Tamara (Slovakia, b. 1988) started IPG in 2010. IPG’s projects are initiated by personal interest and curiosity for experience. Although our primary medium is photography we believ...

23.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Lara Tabet
The Reeds

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Les Roseaux is a project that sprung from the frustration inherent to the lack of public spaces in Beirut. It is an oneiric exploration of one of the rare public spaces in the city that becomes the theater of illicit sexual encounters at night. A way, through transgression, of reconnect...

11.05.2013[ read full story ]

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ADm
Terra:extra

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Terra:extra can be described as a series of Unnatural Landscapes or even Landscaped Imaginations. With a nod to Antonioni's "Blow Up", I transform the fringes and banal corners of my images with exaggerated enlargement, tone and colour, aiming to deconstruct and subvert some of the classic notions o...

23.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Colette Pourroy
Au clair de son ombre

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Colette Pourroy scrambles the signals. Her photographs catch us by surprise. We find ourselves floating between reality and fiction, memories and dreams; constantly going back and forth between the past and the present. We enter a visual territory where references and influence...

23.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Marcela Paniak
Elysium

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Elysian Fields is a mythological place where blessed souls of the dead stay. In the underground land of eternal peace and after death happiness the souls which are devoid of all suffering and desires stroll through the pale meadows surrounded by invisible lira music, poplars and asphodels; f...

02.03.2013[ read full story ]

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Sylvain Granjon
Mr Zuper

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Mister Zuper is a great French super hero! He is beautiful, strong and intelligent... And 10 cm small! But he has a problem: he cannot go out of his apartment. So he has to lives all his adventures which he finds around him...

23.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Antonella Renzi
The Twofold Kingdom

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As an electronic engineer I started to play with digital photography as a Tech-Toy, a way to challenge my curiosity , to discover creativity through that modality. However as I proceed along this path, and the meditation path as well, I have found Photography to be a tool for ope...

11.05.2013[ read full story ]

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