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Éric Weeks: World was in the Face of the Beloved

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“My photographs from the series World Was in the Face of the Beloved are about a character who is becoming one within a given landscape. She is someone who is okay with where she is in the world, while at the same time, she questions her place in the universe...

05.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Antoine d'Agata
Anticorps

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"For a long time, this distinction between day and night was an unconscious one. Because I am represented by a photography agency (Magnum) I sometimes find myself in the position of being able to report on the state of the world [...] I have never had any qualms about allowing myself to be...

05.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Juergen Teller
Woo

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Considered one of the most important photographers of his generation, Teller is one of the few artists who has been able to operate successfully both in the art world and at the centre of the commercial sphere. Teller entered the London photography scene through the music industry taking photogra...

05.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Cécile Bortoletti
Sur-nature

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Photographing the nature of Hyères and its surroundings is quite a challenge, for it is actually a super-nature, a mix of both luxurious and geometrical mediterranean vegetation and cultivation of exotic plants. How can one give a taste of this multi-faceted Eden that is part of so m...

05.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Liu Bolin
Hide in the city

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His name is Liu Bolin, also known as ‘ chameleon man’. A Chinese artist of the new generation (born in 1973), Liu Bolin is specialized of stunning performances in which he perfectly disguises himself as the surroundings, constantly playing between the visible and the invisible. By making ...

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Hannah Nagle
I’m Not You Anymore

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Hannah Nagle is 19 and based in London.She picked up a camera at 15, just two years later Mario Testino invited Hannah to spend a week in his studio. Since then Hannah has been featured on various blogs, websites and publications including Urban Outfitter's, Daze...

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Eugenio Recuenco
Connected

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Born in Madrid in May 1968, Eugenio Recuenco is today one of Spain’s most renowned photographers. He is considered the heir of the great masters of classical Spanish painting like Goya, El Greco and Zurbarán, with whom he shares an almost perfect mastery of chiaroscuro. His highly evocati...

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Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Best seen, Not heard

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" I was not really attempting to depict reality, I was attempting to manufacture it in a way, and that I think where a lot of its cinematic quality is coming. As an american, It’s almost impossible not to know Edward Hopper […]. There is something unrealistic about Edward ...

15.01.2013[ read full story ]

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Nadav Kander
Bodies - 6 Women, 1 Man

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« Revealed yet concealed. Shameless yet shameful. Ease and unease. Beauty and destruction. These paradoxes are displayed in all my work; an inquiry into what it feels like to be human. Wherever I may be, my pictures seek to expose the shadow and vulnerability that exists in all ...

15.01.2013[ read full story ]

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Sissi Farassat
Behind, I

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Edwynn Houk Gallery exhibits recent works by Sissi Farassat (Iranian, b. 1969). This is her first solo exhibition in New York. Encountering Farassat¹s works, one quickly sees that hundreds of hours have been spent hand retouching each photograph making it a unique object. Farassat drastical...

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