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Myrto Papadopoulos:
The Attendants

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The series by this Greek photojournalist looks at the evolution of her country’s sex industry and how it has been affected by the financial crisis. Over the course of two years, Myrto Papadopoulos immersed herself in the world of both legal and illegal prostitutio...

01.03.2013[ read full story ]

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Wendy Marijnissen:
Women in Afghanistan

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The past three decades of war and chaos have had a devastating impact on Afghanistan and it’s people. 11 years after the defeat of the Taliban regime and the following war by the International Coalition Forces, the state of women’s rights in particular remains extremely poor…

28.02.2013[ read full story ]

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David Chickey at Radius Books

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Founded as a non-profit in 2007 by a group in Santa Fe, NM (including David Chickey, Darius Himes and David Skolkin), Radius Books is dedicated to the art of book making at a time when the printed object is changing right before our very...

28.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Danica O. Kus: Poetics of Niemeyer's architecture

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Danica O. Kus has been photographing the unique buildings of legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer who passed away in December last year. 
He was the last architect of the modernist era known for designing Brasilia and adding curves to strict ...

27.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Victoria S. Maidhof: Adventure's with Patty

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Adventure's with Patty is a series I worked on from May 2012 until mid November 2012. It began as many of my photo projects do. When I met Patty, I became floored by how interesting she was and I wanted to spend time getting to know her and photograph her. What I d...

27.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Feng Liu:
Pictures from Chicago

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In 1999, I moved to Chicago from Shanghai, China, for my job as an engineer. Inspired by Chicago’s vitality and power and fascinated by the new culture, I had a strong urge to express my feelings about this great city. Chicago is America. I started to use my lifelong passion—photogra...

21.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson: Abyssinia

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We have been to the land of milk and honey and it is in southern Ethiopia, former Abyssinia. A generation ago many of the tribes in the Omo River region did not know they lived in modern day Ethiopia and yet a mega hydro-electric dam, the Gibe III, could render the chalice...

27.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Don Hamerman:
Baseballs

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For the past several years, I have been walking our family dog at a park near our home. There's a baseball field there which has been in use for, as far as I can tell, at least 80 years. While on these walks I'd frequently find, lying right on the field or at the far edges of the park, los...

20.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Arko Datto
The River

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A picturesque place in the morning, the Siem Reap river banks become home to a disparate mix of people after dusk. Life lurks in shadows there. Little dramas played out in eerie corners under darkening trees. The body seeks and finds instant solace . People come, people go, much like the river ...

21.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Daniel Espinoza: Independent Business

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An independent business is a small family owned business which provides a livelihood to the owner and his/her family. These places are full of inventiveness and hard work, but unfortunately due to our current industrialization pressures, these businesses face difficult times to s...

21.02.2013[ read full story ]

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