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Bernard Benant
More money

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Bernard Benant was born in 1959 in Constantine, Algeria. Since he was 24 years old, he has been passionate about photography. We chose to show three series by him. "More Money", "Red" and "Miami", originally commissioned by the Spanish magazine Neo2, where the object was to capture the b...

28.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Dom Smaz
Reborn

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The creation of false babies… Everything started in Hollywood, since the law in the United States prohibits films working with babies who are less than three months old. As this phenomenon spread among the public, a market begins to grow in all four corners of the world. Creator of life in plastic,...

23.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Valérie Anex:
Ghost Estates

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Valerie Anex is a young Irish-Swiss artist born in 1983 in Lausanne, Switzerland. She first graduated in 2007 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development studies in Geneva, before entering the Geneva University of Art and Design the same year. Her activities include photo...

07.09.2011[ read full story ]

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The treasure of the monastery

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Mt. Athos is the eastern-most peninsula of Khalkidiki in northern Greece. It is an autonomous theocratic republic, currently inhabited by some 2600 monks.

07.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Gwenn Dubourthoumieu: Raped lives

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After a B.S. in Business Administration and Management and a M.S. in Humanitarian Affairs, Gwenn Dubourthoumieu began working for NGOs, mainly based in Africa, in the fields of logistics and project coordination. In 2004, he went to Somalia where he specialized in Mi...

05.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Inde, Erik Messori
Indian Coal Mines

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Jharkhand: a mining state of Eastern India – it is the coal mined from here that has made this Indian state world-known for being the second largest coal producer. Second only to China, India extracts from its soil a quantity of coal overly sufficient for its energy and transpor...

05.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Saint Petersbourg School of Photography

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The “Saint Petersbourg School of Photography” gathers a group of artists closely related to the “New Academism” trend, the main art movement of the post Perestroika Era. Around the figure of Timour Novikov, this group of “non conformist” artists (in contras...

30.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Shen Wei
Chinese sentiment

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Chinese Sentiment is the most recent series by New York based artist Shen Wei. The images were made in over twenty different locations in China between 2008 and 2010. Wei’s first monograph also titled Chinese Sentiment (Charles Lane Press, New York) h...

29.06.2011[ read full story ]

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The outskirts of the world by 11 photographers

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To give visibility to the human condition in its outskirts is the objective of the exhibition and the work of these photographers that have spent 24 hours in numerous cities in order to capture the siginificant elements from the diversity between the different countri...

29.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Paris, Blanca Cassas Brullet

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Born in 1973 in Barcelona, Spain. Lives and works between Paris and Barcelona. Blanca Cassas Brullet is exposing at the Gallery Françoise Paviot.
Through the use of different mediums for the image and plastic expression such as photography and video, but also perfo...

27.06.2011[ read full story ]

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