US Photographer Mitch Epstein wins 100, 000 dollars of the third Prix Pictet, photography prize for environmental sustainability, with his series American Power. In presenting the award to Mitch Epstein, Kofi Annan said, “It is difficult to look at this exhibition without ...

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40, 000 dollars Pictet Commission goes to the US photographer Chris Jordan to undertake a field trip to Northern Kenya. Chris Jordan will visit Kenya with logistical support from Tusk. His mission is to draw attention to the sustainability issues that face the local communities in t...

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When I started working on my “Chinese interiors” photography project in June 2004, about a year after having finished my “Cuban Interiors” project, I believed that I could take the same approach in China as in Cuba…..photographing people inside their homes, meeting them, ge...

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A cat like Nat Finkelstein had nine lives before he died in 2009. A photographer, journalist, world traveler, animal smuggler, gun runner, drug dealer, ex-convict, revolutionary, and only God (and Nat) knows what else. Born in 1933 in Coney Island, Finkelstein studied with Alexey Br...

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David Schonauer’s press review evidently begins with Japan. How can the shock of an earthquake, followed by a tsunami, and then a nuclear threat be shown in images? Itsuo Inouye photographed two journalists taking refuge under a table during the earthquake. After the tsun...

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Until April 24, le Botanique will be honoring one of Belgium’s master 20th century photographers, Norbert Ghisoland. Born in 1878, this miner’s son’s subject over 40 years were the residents of Borinage. Through these carefully composed pictures, this “involuntary anthropol...

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“Chez Higgins”, the talented publisher of portfolios, sold at Artcurial Gallery on the Champs-Elysées, organized an evening celebrating the forthcoming opening of the “Iconoclastes” Gallery at Rue Danièle Casanova in Paris.
The guest of honor Nan Goldin, was in fa...

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For the 3rd edition of the Pictet Prize, Kofi Annan, former Nobel Peace Prize awarded the amount of 100,000 Swiss francs to Mark Epstain, for his series titled: “American Power.”

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