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Clara Vannucci

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Prison theatre is about redemption. Through the process of learning how to play a role they learn how to make wiser decisions when they are released back into society. They learn a profession, they become actors, not only prisoners. They go on tour all around Italy performing...

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Ana Brigida

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The faces of New York City families that struggle to survive against health and environmental threats in public housing developments. This project documents a startling juxtaposition: the dignified daily lives of the residents of this city within a city and the crumbling walls a...

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Ilona Szwarc

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American Girls is a series of portraits of little girls in the United States who own American Girl dolls. When I moved to the US from Poland the phenomenon of the American Girl doll immediately caught my attention. Photographically it was a beautiful image – girls with...

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John Chervinsky

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John Chervinsky is a self-taught photographer and an engineer working in the field of applied physics. Since it first opened at the Griffin Museum of Photography in 2005, his “Experiment in Perspective” series has been traveling the country including solo exhibits a...

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Oscar Hidalgo

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This essay chronicles individuals & families that have chosen to make their lives on the open road. Some run from the past, and others run towards the future. The common thread is a love for the land and the freedom that comes from not being binded to a plot of land. Some sacr...

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Clément Verger

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In this series, Clément Verger explores the countrysides that surround us, revealing traces of mankind’s effect on the natural world. Man has always manipulated nature to suit his needs, leveling the coast, creating forests, carving out valleys. By selecting...

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Marcia Michael

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This project formed a creative investigation, to respond to the invisibility of 'blackness' in the visual history of Britain. 
A framework that critically but subtly shows this historic invisibility through the photographing, and making visible, of a black family. 
Canonical...

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Maja Daniels

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Through my interest in documenting the contemporary western world, I considered the general lack of visual representations of issues related to older generations. That is when I met Mady and Monette. 
Monette and Mady are identical twins. They have lived their whole life closel...

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New York Times Portfolio Review by Paul Melcher

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120 minutes. For 120 minutes, on a lovely Spring Sunday morning, a few of the top photography influencers in the world sat down alongside some advice-starving photographers for a very therapeutic session where everyone was the patient and the doctor. For 20 minutes at a...

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NY Times portfolio review
Jana Romanova

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When you say it in Russian there is not much difference between two words: “spasatel’”(“rescue officer” or “firefighter”)” and “spasitel’”(“savior”, “redeemer”, “Jesus Christ”), but the connotations are opposite. Rescue officers usually come after something bad already happene...

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