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Tanya Traboulsi
You

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‘You’ is a series of self-portraits dealing with the notion of privacy, social and personal taboos and the need to free ourselves from restrictions of any kind. Each photo in the series represents a certain stage of evolution of finding oneself and reaching a state of freedom and self awareness.

13.04.2013[ read full story ]

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Stefano Morelli
Lampedusa

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Following North African riots of the 2011 spring, thousands of refugees landed in Lampedusa from disparate regions of Africa and Asia. Now, after more than a year, what happened? Many of them still live in family-homes where they were brought once left the CIE. Rarely was granted them poli...

02.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Thomas Vanden Driessche : Photo-booth

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A vintage photo-booth dropped in Brussels for a few months close to my place. Just a game at first and then a wish to speak about photography and photographers with a some humor...

26.01.2013[ read full story ]

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Anne de Mondenard's Selection

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Three portfolios. This is the selection by Anne de Mondenard for her third week. Historian of photography, Anne de Mondenard recently curated the Modernisme ou modernité, Les photographes du cercle de Gustave Le Gray exhibition at the Petit Palais.

19.01.2013[ read full story ]

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Joséphine Douet
Alma Herida

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This series is a reflection on the physical and moral limits of man through the figure of the bullfighter. Fifteen of the most important bullfighters agreed to undress and show the scars covering their bodies, as well as their souls. This is an in-depth work about a powerful and controv...

13.04.2013[ read full story ]

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Anush Babajanyan
Inlandish

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“I am a woman who is not accepted by the society,” out of all the women I photographed, none would say this or anything similar. Yet every time any of them walks along the street people look with amazement. When I would see one of them in the streets I would look at them just as everyone ...

19.01.2013[ read full story ]

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Luis Barbosa
Return

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The need for an ecological reasoning becomes essential as the protection of Nature for the following generations turns into Man’s major concern. Human evolution’s unbalanced effects lead to internal revolutions within human condition and nature themselves.

02.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Odeta Catana
Mother Romania

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This photographic project portrays the state of the Romanian nation, through portraits of three generations of women in the new era of a big united Europe. The project attempts to describe through portraits the community of Calarasi, my hometown, which just like the whole country is affe...

20.04.2013[ read full story ]

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Sergio Figliolia
Outskirts

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Outskirts is a still ongoing territory mapping project. Focus is on the outskirts of Rome and its new districts. So similar to each other. So different from what foreigners think of Rome. New residential areas with almost no public services, growing next to huge shopping centers. Desolate...

16.03.2013[ read full story ]

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Raïssa Venables
All That Glitter

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All That Glitters is a body of work comprised of large format, highly saturated color photographs of interior spaces that are excessively opulent - old, modern or manufactured. I meticulously construct an image from dozens of photographs taken of a particular room in order to prese...

02.02.2013[ read full story ]

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