Press Review

David Schonauer
The Weekly World Tour

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The weekly review of photos in the U.S. media is back after a New York summer that included earthquakes and hurricanes. For this edition, we look at a number of other late-summer events from around the world—a summer of fighting, famine, and flooding for some—as well as a few w...

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Fashion

Patricia Nagy
Fashion Press Review

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After some relaxing summer days, it’s time to get back on our feet and greet the Fall season. Sean and Seng help us out, with one more lazy yet sexy moment, in Numero’s issue 125.

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Festival

Montréal 2011:
Mois de la Photo

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The 12th festival of Montreal’s Mois de la Photo opens this Thursday, a non-profit biennial of contemporary photography. Twenty-five artists will be exhibiting their work in fourteen places in the Canadian metropolis.

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Festival

Montréal 2011
Cristina Nunez

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Cristina Nuñez is adept at taking self-portraits in private. She started the practice in 1988 in an attempt to overcome personal problems. It quickly became therapy in the form of emotional liberation and enabled her to project herself as she wanted to be. Someone to L...

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Montréal 2011
Jesper Just

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Jesper Just likes short films with a background of soft and narrative music. In them, the artist presents men confronting their emotionality and mainly presents ambiguous love situations, reversible and often homo-erotic. The five mini-films (2002-2008) brought together i...

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Montréal 2011
Jim Verburg

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Jim Verburg is another artist who poses questions about human relationships. He focuses particularly on the questions of intimacy, sexuality and what is often left unsaid in such relations. For a Relationship (2007) and Album de famille numéro un (Family Album Number 1) (...

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Montréal 2011
Juan Manuel Echavarría

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Juan Manuel Echavarria was first a writer before turning to photography in the 1990s in reaction to the guerilla movements in Columbia. Bocas de Ceniza (Mouth of Ashes) is the name of the mouth of the Magdalena river where the bodies of victims of the violent ...

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Festival

Montréal 2011
Roger Ballen

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For Roger Ballen, photography is psychological reflection. Asylum (2004-2010) is the artist’s most recent work. The series mostly consists of scenes of birds in macabre, nightmarish or lewd sketches which Ballen composes meticulously, mixing drawing, theater, pa...

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Festival

Montréal 2011
Raymonde April

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Raymonde April is known for her inspired photography of her private life which she balances at the confluence of documentary, autobiography and fiction. Loving the ordinary, she has forged a unique identity and loves to go back to the same places, to return to the same...

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