The name of Jacques Régent will forever remain engrained in the French photographic memory and most particularly to the Rencontres d’Arles. His commitment to the profession laid on the solid pillars of the Ecole Louis Lumière, class of 1963, before he joined the company of ...

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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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Kosuke Okahara was born in 1980. After studying to be a teacher in Tokyo he opted for photography and joined the Vu agency in Paris in 2007. A freelance since 2010, he lives and works in Tokyo. His photojournalism has appeared in internationally renowned magazines. A winner of...

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Born in 1990, Sengsong helped his brothers and sisters work the family farm in Udomxai province in Northwestern Laos before going to live in the orphanage in Luang Prabang. There he began his schooling, starting from scratch. Today he continues his studies in the orphanage school, dev...

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I am a student at Luang Prabang Souphanouvong University. I started photography when I was 15, with no idea of technique at all. Since you can’t find good quality film or labs to process them in anymore, I turned to digital, which is also much cheaper.

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Born in Muar, Malaysia, in 1975, Tan Chee Hon graduated from the Kuala Lumpur School of Fine Arts in 1997 and now teaches visual arts while also working as a painter and photographer. Since 1996 he has been exhibiting in Malaysia, South-East Asia, Japan and China. His work ha...

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Chinese Malaysian Minstrel Kuik was born in Pantai Remis, Malaysia in 1976. Due to the racial quota that restricts national university access to native Malaysians, her country ‘exported’ her to Taiwan, like many other Chinese students. After her bachelor’s degree in painting...

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Khee Teik Pang is thirty-seven. Since January 2007 this subversive star of Malaysia’s alternative scene has been artistic director of the Annexe Gallery, a contemporary art centre in Kuala Lumpur much appreciated for its eclectic tastes. Also a journalist, Pang was editor i...

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Born in 1961 in Larache, in northern Morocco, Hassan Hajjaj now divides his time between London and Marrakech. Spotted by art critic Rose Issa in 2006, he has taken part in numerous exhibitions in Morocco, England, Mali and the Middle East. In 2009 he was a finalist in the Vi...

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Born in 1978, Andrew Esiebo lives and works in Ibadan, and is a founder member of the Nigerian photojournalism collective Black Box. Photography is beginning to make its presence felt in Nigeria, but is still a rare subject in schools. Esiebo taught himself his craft with a c...

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James K. Lowe, born in New Zealand in 1988 of Chinese parents, graduated from the Auckland University Elam School of Fine Arts in 2009. Alongside his career as a designer and photographer, he is developing a personal artistic practice inspired by the documentary style of ...

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Born in Kinshasa in 1978, Christian Tundula divides his time between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Bruges, in Belgium. He studied visual communication at the Academy of Fine Art in Kinshasa and attended the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbour...

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Born in 1982, Mikhail Galustov wrote his first articles for a suburban Moscow newspaper when he was sixteen years old. Intent on illustrating these stories himself, he bought a camera and two lenses and taught himself photography, taking his inspiration from Garry Winogrand...

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Born in Omsk in 1971, Sergey Loier was still very young when he was given a FED 5C – the Russian copy of the Leica – as a present. He then spent hours photographing kids playing in a sandbox, not knowing that twenty-five years later, this time armed with a digital camera, he wo...

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