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Moshe Brakha
Californie: La La Land

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I’ve been a photographer for 40 plus years. Some days I wake up Innocent. Some days I wake up Filthy. I am Moshe Hollywood Brakha. Welcome to Mid-Town Hollywood… Images from the 70’s and 80’s

20.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Nozomi IIjima:
Scoffing Pig

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The first time I saw Nozomi Iijima’s photographs, tears came to my eyes. It was Mister Hasegawa’s birthday. Around the generous table, young photographers he had published in ASPHALT° were reunited. Nozomi was the guest of issue VI. A short text printed in japanese and english «  Growin...

17.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Jork Weismann: Asleep at the Château Marmont

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Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles is a fantastical folly in the land of make-believe. Several generations of actors, directors, writers and artists have heeded Cohn’s advice, from Dorothy Parker and F. Scott Fitzgerald to Hunter S. Thompson and Jim Morris...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Moshe + Eddie Brakha AKA Brakhax2

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Brakhax2. It is a formation of two people, father + son, 4 eyes and 2 brains, that choose to express ourselves at every level. From the right side of reality. The strength and expression of our relationship starts there. Whenever we approach any subject, it’s always told through t...

17.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Donato Chirulli:
When God was not there

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Suddenly, I felt I had to go to Auschwitz. 
My personal story, which led me to explore the Human Being, seen into the streets of the world, had closed his circle with the publication of a book on the subject (Dec 2012). Years of work to capture images on the fly, trying to ge...

16.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Riccardo Rocchi:
Cambodia reconstrucion

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This is the moment right before the change, but also the time where everything has already changed. 
This is a portrait of a “Temporary Kingdom”. 
A journey through Cambodia between yesterday and tomorrow, a project started in 2009 that tells of the precariousness of the coun...

20.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Gerd Ludwig:
Sleeping Cars

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There are more than seven million registered vehicles in Los Angeles County, California/USA. Images of traffic jams are omnipresent. But where do all those cars go to rest? These photographs examine where LA cars are spending their nights. In middle-class neighborhoods people often have 1...

08.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Viviana Peretti:
Babel, the Urge to Pray

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Before I came to New York I expected to find a very secular, pushy and consumer-driven city. I was really surprised by the rich, diverse, intense religious life present in each neighborhood and the complex and sometimes complicated implications these different belief systems...

07.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Zed Nelson:
The Family

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It is always interesting to see how photographers deal with the undeniable relationship between photography and time. Some decide to put it to the test, year after years, following a carefully repeated process, or by tirelessly documenting the same subject. Like a challenge to themselves or t...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]

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On the Road with Braschler/Fischer - Part 4

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After publication of the first three parts, here is the fourth book of the road trip of the photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer across fourteen countries ! With Kenya, India, Switzerland, Vietnam and South America behind them, Braschler/Fischer now take us to...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]

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