Portfolio

Akash
The soul of Bangladesh

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Akash’s journey to the world of photography began long ago. For years he has been travelling widely, covering various social issues faced by the lesser known people, particularly in his country Bangladesh.

01.04.2011[ read full story ]

Editorial & Business

The Press Benghazi
gang club

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It’s a slice of the lives of the war correspondants in Libya that we are publishing execptionally in spite of the weak definition of the photographs. It’s Patrick Baz, special correspondant photographer for the Agence France Presse (AFP/Getty Images) who gave us his log book in imag...

29.03.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Basilico, Castella, Vitali: Italian perspectives

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Three different points of view, three big names of Italian landscape photography: Gabriele Basilico, Vincenzo Castella, Massimo Vitali. Gabriele Basilico is one of the bigger names of landscape photography: his city portraits (Milan, but also Naples, Bayreuth, Istan...

31.03.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Kate Simon
The Beat Generation

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Like every true New Yorker, Kate Simon is…British. A major witness to an incredible time (the ‘70’s), she was a friend to the poets, writers, and rock stars of the underground, those creatures lurking in the shadows, yearning for light. She has extraordinary and rare photographic ...

29.03.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Robyn Twomey
Medicine

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Robyn Twoney, a Bay Area freelance and fine-art photographer presents her first exhibition Medicine at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, portraits and environment archival pigment prints of medical marijuana clients living in California.

31.03.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

Corentin Fohlen
One of the new wave

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Last February, he came in second place for the World Press Spot News category. In November, 2010, he won the Calderon Prize at the Angers Scoop Festival, just after receiving the highly coveted Young Reporter Prize from the city of Perpignan during the Visa pour l’Image Festi...

31.03.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Rip Hopkins
Concrete and Iron

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In 2011, the Departmental Museum of Prehistory of the Ile de France, a masterwork by architect Roland Simounet, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Photographer Rip Hopkins was invited to participate in “The Age of Concrete and Iron” festivities. With this extensive new series of p...

01.04.2011[ read full story ]

L'Oeil de La Lettre

Palm Springs by
Jeff Dunas

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The opening of the Palm Springs Photo Festival was held last Sunday March 27th, around the swimming pool of the Korakia Pensione. 600 people were present, including Amy Arbus, Anthony Bannon, Arno Minkkinen, Chris Pichler & Dunas, David Muench, Doug Menuez, Peter Turnley, Todd Hido...

29.03.2011[ read full story ]

Book

Artus de Lavilleon
Pékin

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« I leave for China on Friday, I offer to photograph my journey « walking towards the last communists! » There must be something, inevitably an alternative. I can’t cheat. The biggest censorship is when everything is permitted and I have never been in a country where the limits are stil...

29.03.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Lucien Clergue in America, 1961-2010

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For the past three years, the Association Lucien Clergue en Pays d’Arles has honored the photographer with an exhibition at Arles. After “The Gypsies and their Prince: José Reyes” in 2009, Clergue in the Arena, 50 years of bullfighting in 2010, the Associatio...

31.03.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

From Drugs to Mugs

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The message is clear. Substance abuse will change your life in ways you never imagined. Using before and after photos collected from jail mug shots as the foundation for this 48-minute documentary, the authors easily make their case.

01.04.2011[ read full story ]

L'Oeil de La Lettre

6Mois
Opening

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For the launch of the magazine 6Mois, the brand new reference in terms of photojournalism, we counted on something that Paris would look towards in terms of “the next great publication” in bookstore magazine publishing. However, there were only a few photographers, no photojournalists, and...

31.03.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Yannig Willmann
Illan Engel Gallery

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Yannig Willmann, lives and works in Paris. He began his studies in cinema at the International Institute of Image and Sound in Paris, then plastic arts at Beaux Arts in Rennes, and at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, then joins the Studio National des Arts Conte...

29.03.2011[ read full story ]

Portrait

Jean-François Gallois, a generous man

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In the world of Photography, there are men who help considerably the lesser known photographers. Jean-François Gallois, the director of Central Color, is one of them. Year after year, he prints for free a certain number of exhibition photos for photographers or for festivals...

29.03.2011[ read full story ]

L'Oeil de La Lettre

Art Paris
Opening

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120 Art Galeries reunited in the Grand Palais is the bet for the second consecutive year by the creator of “Art Basel.” Painting, sculpture, photography, cohabiting joyfully for this event whose popular success and the passion of the professionals ensures it’s permanence.

31.03.2011[ read full story ]

Magazine

6Mois: 2.6 Lb of photos and some words

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6mois: 1.2 kg of photographs and some words
Since Thursday March 24th, an unidentified object seems to have landed in French bookstores and soon in those around the world. 500 photographs, 24 portfolios, 350 pages bound in a completely original publicatio...

28.03.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

The Julie Project
Darcy Padilla

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Darcy Padilla, winner of the 2010 W. Eugene Smith Foundation Prize, is currently featured in the first issue of “6mois” with over 50 pages devoted to “The Julie Project”. “Her father, a Mexican, was a social worker, her mother served meals in a hospital. Born 45 years ago in Cali...

28.03.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

Flight Camp
Olivier Laban-Mattei

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On January 12, 2010, the earth shook in Haïti and Olivier Laban-Mattei was there. He returned to provide in depth coverage of the elections. “6mois” dedicated 26 pages to this story about the birth of a city on an abandoned airfield. “His heart is in Corsica, where his son Lisa...

28.03.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

A British Education
Christopher Furlong

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26 pages in 6mois to provide a portrait of Eton, the school that has been, for more than six centuries, “The” college for the British elite. The photo story is followed by an interview of Philip Howard, a former student and journalist at The Times. Very ...

28.03.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

Tango by
Kashinsky & Gachet

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“They are 20 and 24 years old. Her namee is Ceci, his is Meme. Tango has brought them together as much as it has devoured them. They dance by day for tourists, and by night for friends. Tango is the life of this Buenos Aires couple, photographed by another couple”. A 24 page story ...

28.03.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

The Paradise of
Nedjma Berder

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10 “saturated” and colorful portraits, resulting from work by the men and women of Guinée-Bissau. An homage to a fragile universe, “6mois” opens up to the world. “Rejecting classical teaching methods, Nedjma Berder fled to boat-school when he turned 11. He became a sailor, and drift...

28.03.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

The Russia of Sergueï Prokoudine-Gorsky

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“Mémoire” is the historical column in 6mois, archives that “inform today”. For their first edition, the review chose to highlight the little known process, tri-chrome. “After the theoretical discoveries made in the 19th century, several technical processes were de...

28.03.2011[ read full story ]

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