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Jean-Pierre Laffont:
Memories of an officer

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I was more prepared than anyone in March 1960 when I entered the Cherchell military school located 50 km west of Alger. I say more prepared because I am a Pied-Noir, born in Alger of parents and grandparents all born in Algeria. Among the first Pied-Noir family, my materna...

29.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Alejandre Chaskielberg: Nocturama

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The images from Nocturama have been done during different travels; the actors are friends or people I met randomly or even there is a self-portrait. Nocturama is my first experimentation doing photography in the night; somehow it is the sketchbook of my following night-proje...

26.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Liu Xiaogang: New Chinese Photography

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The Galerie Salomon Duval is presenting this month a new series by Liu Xiaofang . The Chinese artist was first introduced to the public by becoming the poster child of reGeneration 2, a selection of the 80 most promising photographers of their generation, organized by the Musée ...

26.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Balthazar Gagola: Stills Photographer

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I fell in love with images at a very young age, I took my hairdressing career to movie sets. I have been working in audiovisual now for nearly 20 years. 
I had the privilege of working with some of the greatest photographers and directors. For the past few years, I have begun tak...

26.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Michel Nafziger
Le sexe révélé

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Born in Brittany, France in 1958, Michel Nafziger began working in his father's company at age fourteen. Self-educated, he got his start in photography in Paris in 1977 as a photographer assistant. In 1980, he went to the United States, where he spent two years in San Francisco an...

27.06.2012[ read full story ]

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James Keogh
The Tragedy of Sudan

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“I like to feel useful where my colleagues are not,” says James de Caupenne-Keogh with a smile. Winner of the prize ''Young Reporter'' at the Scoop de Lille awards in France, Caupenne-Keogh is ambitious, modest and organized. He knows Sudan is inaccessible from the North, so he ent...

10.09.2012[ read full story ]

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Irving S. T. Garp: off beat images

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I am a Belgian photographer. My photographic alias is Irving S.T. Garp in reference to John Irving’s novel The World According to Garp. My photos are recognized by their original and offbeat staging. My models are anyone and everyone. Photography is a narcissistic art. If the photog...

19.06.2012[ read full story ]

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The Many Faces of Jocelyn Allen

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After finishing university and moving back to the family home to work on a project about my closest relatives and myself, I started to think about the representation of a person in a photograph. Generally a portrait is just a split second of time, and I felt I looked quite different in...

15.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Maria Pleshkova:
Days of War

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'War' and 'Waiting' begin with the same letter. I'm not a soldier's mother, neither am I a soldier's wife. But I know what it feels like when the loved one goes to war. The man I love, who is a journalist, went to Lybia to cover the war. He stayed there for a few months. He was on the fr...

14.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Clara Vannucci: Rikers Island Battered Women

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It all started in 2009, when I met Donna Ferrato, internationally respected documentary photographer, who fell in love with my project on prisons in Tuscany, and gave me the amazing opportunity to continue my project about prisons in NYC.

14.06.2012[ read full story ]

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