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Carte blanche : France
Michel Bousquet

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This project was built daily with a Polaroid as a written correspondence. I was writing to “Wrong Spot”, a place. Michel Bousquet was born in 1962. After studying at the National Louis Lumière Schoolet he became a photographer in 1990. He started with still lives for the pres...

24.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Carte blanche : UK
Matt Wilson

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« Like Bruce Chatwin’s travel diaries, Matt Wilson’s photographic wanderings occasional produce some pictures. Few, indeed, but so unusual, slightly damaged due to the outdated film he uses. His vision is outdated, he doesn’t want to capture reality, just an instant. An instant / ti...

24.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Carte blanche : France
David de Beyter

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"Concrete Mirrors" is a photographic mockumentary. It deals with the representation of elsewhere through a selection of utopian architectures of the sixties: sites of scientific space research and a collection of landscapes which have received a sort of popular acceptance as Ma...

24.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Bolivia, the Menonos by Jordi Ruiz Cirera

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The project Menonos depicts the lifestyle and inner struggles of the Mennonite in their colonies in Eastern Bolivia. Mennonites are Christian Anabaptists who left Germany around the XVIth century, and have since been migrating from country to country in order to preserve ...

07.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Albane Navizet
My life in Hollywood

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I became a photographer from one day to the next . . . by "accident", the summer of 1978 in Paris. I had been a model and an actress for fifteen years. Modeling for me was over, and the movie world was elusive. Alan, my husband then, had given me a Nikon camera as a gift. I picke...

10.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Acey Harper
No limits

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I am not the photographer I used to be. I once used my camera to tell other people’s stories. I documented the facts of their lives. Good or bad, it was always limited to reality. Now, I tell stories without limits, from dreams and the imagination. I have changed my ways, transformed by uneart...

01.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Cyjo: The Korean diaspora

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The American Dream glows and pulsates and can initially overshadow the hardship and struggle that many immigrants face as they take root into a new country. And with the sacrifices made from the first generation, later generations experience a more comfortable life. English becomes their lan...

02.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Sacha Goldberger
Mamika

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Sacha Goldberger figures among today’s preeminent advertising photographers. A former art director, his adventures with photography began with a disposable camera in 2003, when he created a picture book to declare his love to his girlfriend: Le petit livre de Je t’aime (Th...

06.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Aaron Graubart
Still Life

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Aaron Graubart is an award winning still life and food photographer based in New York City. Born and raised in London, Aaron studied painting at the Sir John Cass School of Art and later photography at the London College of Communication. He has been creating beautiful, graphic, powerf...

25.01.2012[ read full story ]

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Elene Usdin
In praise of self portrait

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Elene Usdin is a walking toolbox. She draws, paints, and for the past nine years, has taken pictures, too. Smiling and considerate, she’s also great company. At 40, this young mother sews and knits with ease. We’re not sharing this personal information to emb...

26.01.2012[ read full story ]

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