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Michael O'Brien
Hard Ground

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Michael O’Brien took pictures on Tuesdays at a Catholic ministry that feeds and houses the homeless. He spent two years doing it in Austin, Texas, starting in 2006. Eighty-eight of his photographs alternate with brief sections of poetry by singer-songwriter Tom Waits in O’Brien’s boo...

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Exhibition

Shunsuke Ohno
Pacific Barriers

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Till very recently, we thought that seisms as emotions were under control in Japan. It was yet impossible to imagine that the devastating Nature could punish such an admirable and calm country. That the earthquake-proof constructions could’nt resist to a superhuman force.

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Exhibition

Degas, Bonnard, Vuillard photographers

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Even before the turning point of the 1900s, among many other innovators, Vuillard, Bonnard and Degas began to use photographic cameras to use what only seems – in the eyes of their contemporaries – simply a technical mechanism foreign to the ...

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Antonio Martinelli, India's Royal Court

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The extraordinary northern Indian city of Lucknow knew a particularly prosperous era during the mid 18th century, until the 1857 revolt against British rule. The city’s monuments are a reflection of the sophisticated lifestyle of Lucknow’s royal Nawabs (rulers) who...

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Brassaï, Dubuffet
Graffittis

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The Karsten Greve Gallery in Paris is exposing a most unexpected and innovative collection of works associating photos by Brassaï and both canvas and paper works by Jean Dubuffet. Works on which or in which he incorporates “material elements of dail...

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Sergueï Burasovsky
World Beaches

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The Glaz Gallery in Moscow presents an exhibition by Sergueï Burasovsky about the beaches of the 5 continents. We travel to Magadan, Russian Far East, a northern region, terribly unfriendly and synonymous with every Russian for the most dreadful goulags. Copacabana or the Canary...

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Amnesty International
Portraits of Heros

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The Amnesty International House in Nice opens an exhibition devoted to Human Rights defenders. Christian Courrèges has shot 20 of these defenders coming from all continents. These photographs, accompanied by a short presentation of the defendor and his situations, clearly...

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