Gigi Giannuzzi is wonderfully grim. He has a darkness of spirit that glows from within. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Trolley Books, the photography book publishing house that he founded and has operated since its birth in London, Giannuzzi shared his thou...

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Valerie Anex is a young Irish-Swiss artist born in 1983 in Lausanne, Switzerland. She first graduated in 2007 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development studies in Geneva, before entering the Geneva University of Art and Design the same year. Her activities include photo...

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In 1997, Roger Job made two trips to Turkana in northwestern Kenya. There he met people who live in harmony with nature. In a new journey in 2008, he discovered how their lives changed in a few years. In 2009 and 2010, he made no less than seven trips to T...

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Mt. Athos is the eastern-most peninsula of Khalkidiki in northern Greece. It is an autonomous theocratic republic, currently inhabited by some 2600 monks.

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Under the term “In memoriam”, Polka Galerie features three exhibitions that could clearly correspond to three possible meanings or interpretations of this generic phrase that imposes respect, or even a eulogy, sadly often quite gloomy.

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In a chaotic evolution made of comings and goings, from Lisbon to Odessa, by way of Tangiers, Marseille or Istanbul, we find ourselves between two (shores), in suspension. The photographs express a feeling of waiting: waiting for something else, a departure, an arrival, a myste...

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In July 2011, for 10 days, the Michèle Chomette gallery became a centre for secret interrogations carried out by the Canadian artist Paulette Phillips, using a lie detector as part of a project she is developing. In 2009, in Baltimore, she was accredited as an examiner an...

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