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Julia Fullerton-Batten:
A Testament to Love

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‘A Testament to Love’ is a narrative about the struggles of life when love goes wrong. The women in my images wrestle with the eternal search for a happy ending, but find themselves left with feelings of solitude, loneliness, fear, regret and resignation. Are they searchi...

18.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Jean-Benoît Scheen
Fifteen empty rooms

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Fifteen empty rooms. All alike, all different. Light and shadow. They resemble our daily lives, all alike, all different. Fifteen empty, cold, abandoned rooms. Filled with the memories of those who once occupied them: patients, boarders, prisoners? Here and there, traces of a...

13.06.2013[ read full story ]

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On the Road with Braschler/Fischer - Part 6

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The journey of the photographer couple Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer across fourteen countries continues! With Kenya, India, Switzerland and South America behind them, Braschler/Fischer and their child are now heading for Korea, China and Singapore.

13.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Mumbai 2013
Aldo Sperber

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With humor and tenderness, Aldo Sperber presents a series of photographs about the Mumbai gay community. Living openly gay is still difficult in modern India, where marriage remains a fundamental institution. Despite social pressure, some couples dare to live openly. For a gay couple to sit...

04.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Mumbai 2013
Nishant Shukla

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Nishant Kushla traveled up the Ganges to its source in the Himalays, where thousands of sadhus lives alone in huts and caves along the river. Searching for moksa, which frees them from illusion and allows them to become one with the universe, the Hindu sadhus, Sanskrit for “holy man,” ren...

04.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Mumbai 2013
Amit Chakravarty

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Inner Circle chronicles the daily life of a young Indian in Mumbai. Year after year, we follow the events that shape his life there: the arrival of his parents in Mumbai, forced to leave their hometown for health reasons. More than just a simple personal story, Amit Chakravarty sketches...

04.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Mumbai 2013
Raj Lalwani

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Raj Lalwani lives in Bombay with his family: the family lives as per the traditional joint family system, with all 22 under the same roof, and sharing certain rooms, like the kitchen. The house lives and breathes under the photographer’s watchful eye.

04.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Mumbai 2013
Sameer Tawde

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With his series City Eyes, Sameer Tawde offers viewers a poetic and unique look at his city, Mumbai. Through familiar urban elements, the young photographer transforms the city. This megalopolis of 18 million people becomes like a scale model. The viewer wavers between the real and illusion...

04.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Mumbai 2013
Aparna Jayakumar

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Mumbai wouldn’t be the same without them: the famous black and yellow Padmini taxis produced in India by Fiat between 1964 and 2000. Identical in every respect to the 1110-103D model produced in Italy, the charm of the Padmini is unique. The flashy seats and psychedelic carpeting on the...

04.06.2013[ read full story ]

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Mumbai 2013
Andrea Fernandes

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This young Indian photographer questions the relationship between women, their bodies and their sexuality. How do they view their bodies? What are the sexual taboos they face? And what are the reasons, conscious or unconscious, that lead these women to break those taboos?

04.06.2013[ read full story ]

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