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 fe...

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Born in Moscow in 1972, Georgy Pervov is one of the Russian New Wave’s most singular artists. At the age of twelve he was knocked out by his first sight of a painting by late nineteenth century Russian realist Vasily Perov, and began drawing and painting almost every day. Afte...

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Born in Tver in 1986, Irina Popova grew up amid the upheavals of post-Soviet Russia. She began working as a journalist and photographer at sixteen, and won her first prize a year later. After studying for a time under press photographer Sergey Maximishin in St Petersburg, she f...

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Photojournalist Edwin Koo spent five years covering news for a newly founded Singapore newspaper. In 2008 he went freelance and moved to Nepal, where a monarchy going back two centuries had just been replaced by a Maoist government. His interest in displaced persons led him to ...

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Charles Lim was born in Singapore in 1976. In 2004 he gave up his work as a graphic designer and art director to devote himself entirely to photography. With the series What’s Your Dream?, begun in 2001, Lim asks strangers encountered on the streets of his hometown t...

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Chao-Liang Shen was born in Taiwan in 1968. Armed with a degree in Applied Arts, he worked as a photojournalist at the Liberty Times before beginning his own creative projects in 1993. His distinctive images in both black and white and colour have since earned him both natio...

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Of Indian extraction, Sameer Kermalli was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he still lives. His first camera – a Fujifilm 110 – followed him throughout his school years. Before leaving for university in Ankara, Turkey, his father gave him an Olympus. When he returned ...

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Mwanzo Millinga, who was born on 1967, has been practising photography since 1994 and currently teaches at the Flame Tree Media Trust in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. An admirer of Picasso, he quotes Sebastião Salgado as one of his influences, particularly his work on Brazilian ...

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Born in 1977, Lek Kiatsirikajorn studied painting at the Silpakorn University of Fine Art in Bangkok before switching to photography, which interested him with its potential for outreach. He was a promising young artist on the Thai scene in 2001 when he decided to move ...

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Maitree Siriboon was born in 1983 in Ubon Ratchatanee province, in the Isarn region of Northeastern Thailand. At the age of fifteen he moved to Bangkok to study at the College of Fine Art, later obtaining a degree from Silpakorn University. His photos have earned him a nu...

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Born in Togo in 1969, Hélène Amouzou has been living in Brussels for the last fourteen years. In 2004 she enrolled at the Academy of Drawing and Visual Arts in the city’s Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighbourhood, where she studied video and photography. In 2008 she opted for photog...

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Born in 1976, photographer and video-maker Nicène Kossentini lives and works in Tunis. A graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Tunis and Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, she has also studied at the Le Fresnoy National Studio for the Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing...

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