For this third edition of the Musée du Quai Branly's Biennial
Photoquai, artistic direction was provided by photographer and film
director Françoise Huguier. The original approach of 46 photographers selected from countries outside of Europe and North America will be fea...

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You are the first photographer to assume the role of artistic director of Photoquai. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this post?

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Mack Magagane, born in Soweto, South Africa, in 1990, became interested in art and architectural drawing at an early age. After graduating from school in 2008, he enrolled at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, one of Africa’s leading photography schools, where he...

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Internationally renowned artist Marian Drew, 51, lives in Brisbane, Australia, where she teaches photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia in Canbe...

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Camille Zakharia was born in 1962 in Tripoli, Lebanon. After obtaining his engineering degree he fled his country’s civil war, spent time in the United States, Turkey, Greece and Bahrain, then enrolled at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax, Canada. On his g...

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Born in Grodno in 1981, Andrei Liankevich lives and works in Minsk. He holds a degree from the State University of Belarus. In 2005 his report on the Yezid minority in Armenia earned him the World Press Photo Award, one of photojournalism’s most prestigious prizes. When o...

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Rooted in documentary, concerned with social issues, the kids from Cia de Foto never sign their images individually. They always discuss as a group the themes, aesthetic issues and choices that arise in the course of a project. They can afford the luxury of this cohesiveness by ...

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Hak Kim was born in 1981 in Battambang province in Western Cambodia. A graduate of the National Institute of Management, he worked in tourism for several years, before taking up photography in 2008. Starting out at Studio Image, set up by the French Cultural Centre in Phnom Penh, ...

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Born in 1986, Philong Sovan lives and works in Phnom Penh. A photographer at the Phnom Penh Post since 2009, he is also a member of Studio Image, set up by the French Cultural Centre in the city, and head of a workshop in the fine arts faculty at the Royal University. He ex...

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Born in Puerto Montt in 1971, Roberto Candia lives and works in Chile. He has been working as a photojournalist for various newspapers and magazines since 1991 and joined Associated Press in 1998. He was voted Chilean photographer of the year in 2010 and won the 2011 Photo of the Year (POYi) pr...

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Architect Nicolás Sáez lives and works in Concepción, Chile, where he was born in 1973. A teacher at Bío-Bío University, he is also art director of the magazine Arquitecturas del Sur. He has exhibited in Chile and at the 2010 Beijing Biennial and is an active member of the th...

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Yue Liu was born in 1981 in Shanghai, where he studied painting and sculpture at the College of Fine Arts. After graduating in 2005 he turned to photography, creating ‘image-objects’ that went counter to the conventions. He had attracted attention even before finishing his studies, a...

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Born in 1958 in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province in Southwestern China, Mingyi Luo has been practising photography, interior architecture and painting for almost thirty years. His main field of investigation is the city, particularly in its collective and social aspects – h...

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