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George Kurian:
Widows of Vrindavan

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In Vrindavan, India, one of Hinduism's holiest cities, Widows from across the country come to live out the rest of their lives in convent like ashrams, where they spend their time singing hymns to Krishna, the god of love. 
Some come here voluntarily, seeking solace in religion wh...

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Roberto Kusterle:
The Dialogues of Nature

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The images refer to the unique moment when the boundaries between dream, reality, men and animals disappear and reappear in the form of a close cohabitation transforming vital energy into creative tension.

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Christophe Audebert:
Ici et là

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This series of staged photographs shows romantic couples of all ages kissing and loving each other in unlikely and gloomy settings. Couples, a symbol of love, add a touch of hope to their forbidding surroundings, which symbolize the uncertain and unsettling present. Christophe Audebe...

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Jonathan Alpeyrie:
Haiti, Gang Story

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The Haitian LP Street gang is one of many gangs controlling the various slums found through out the capital Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Some gangs are more violent than others. The most hardcore control their turf using intimidation and violence with guns smuggled into Haiti via t...

19.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Sebastiano Tomada:
Warriors portraits

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Late last year, during a particularly bad day of fighting between the Free Syrian Army and the Assad regime, a band of rebels took refuge in the basement of an abandoned factory building in Aleppo. They had just lost two men and were in desperate need of more supplies and more ...

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Milos Bicanski:
The greek financial crisis

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Europe's currency union brought abrupt prosperity to it's poorest member, Greece. But continent's financial crisis has hit the hardest here. The nation's wealthy swiftly exported their money at the first sign of financial trouble, leaving ordinary Greeks to carry the full ...

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Panayis Chrysovergis: Heterotopias

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By applying Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, I deduce what the space/place is like where utopia and the fantastic acquire material substance. The mirror is both a utopia and a heterotopia. The image/idol in the mirror is our utopia, while the mirror itself is heterotopia. In this ...

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Gianni Soglia:
Coiffure Nanda

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I was born and bred in Wasmuel, a small, working class village in Belgium. I grew up to the sound of the hustle and bustle of my mother’s hair salon situated in the entrance of our family home. “Coiffure Nanda” is the story of the women who have come to my mother every week since she f...

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Rina Vukobratovic: Abandoned house

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Since Froyd's philosophy a man has been encouraged to look more into himself, to explore his deepest motivations. Repressed emotions keep their efficiency, they influence our conscious life in many hidden ways.
The idea with which I started my work is based on recollecting memorie...

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Valentine's Day
Colette Pourroy

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14.02.2013[ read full story ]

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