When he was born in Hong Kong on October 25th 1953, his parents, who came from north China, named him Cheung Tai Wai. He was the oldest of six brothers and sisters. He moves to Paris with his family in 1967, then enters the communal school of the rue de Beam, comes out at the age o...

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The HSBC prize for photography was created in 1985 under the auspices of the Fondation de France. Aimed at the promotion of the “new generation of photographers”, the prize is open to any non-published photographer, without age or nationality criteria. The first selection is made by an artistic...

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Yelena Yemchuk was born in Kiev, and immigrated to the United States with her parents at the age of eleven. She studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and Art Center in Pasadena. She started her photography career shooting music album covers as well as directing music videos. H...

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Sometimes, photography is about inspiration and discovery. As well as the internet can be a great source to view well known photographers, it is also a great place to discover new talents. Here are a few sites, carefully curated, where you might discover the next Helmut Newton or the new ...

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With a degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure of Photography in Arles in 2010, Lucile Chombart de Lauwe integrated the photography collective “the bar Floréal” the same year. Her series “at night”, based on night shift workers in France and Belgium was p...

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In a context that is particularly difficult for photojournalism, FNAC decided last September to support photographers by launching a series of grants intended to promote photography. The first three grants, each worth 8,000 euros, will finance a project that is either currently being ...

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The international jury of the 54th edition of World Press Photo, presided by David Burnett together with 19 other picture editors, museum curators and photographers have awarded the South African photographer Jodi Bieber as laureate for the photo of the year 2010 and first pri...

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