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Today and tomorrow, La Lettre belongs to you and you belong to La Lettre, from now on, every weekend. If you want to show and promote your work, these two days are for you. Send us between 7 and 15 pictures (1024 pixels, 72 dpi), accompanied by a short text including your age, your nationality, y...

10.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Toufik Benstiti
The rediscovererd brother

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My name is Toufik Benstiti, I'm 46 years old, I'm French and I live in Lyon. In this series entitled The rediscovererd brother, my goal was to photograph my brother who had spent almost 20 years of his life in prison, always for the same motive: robbery. He fou...

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Veronique Durruty
L’heure des loups

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Durruty Veronica lives and works in Paris, is a member of the Rapho agency. In the series l’heure des loups, she took pictures between dusk and dawn.

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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JM Lopez
Corredor seco

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I am a 40-year-old independent Spanish photographer based in Leon, Spain. JM Lopez photographs the East area of Guatemala known as “corredor seco” where more than 50 children have died in few months because of malnutrition and famine.

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Susan May Tell
Requiem

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Susan May Tell is an american photojournalist. About a reportage, she wrote: "In Auschwitz, I felt the presence of its ghosts guiding me, guiding my camera, and was then, and continue to be now, moved to share the tragedy of this place through the images I saw through my lens."

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Sarah Balhadere
Espace intime

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Sarah Balhadere is 20 and lives in Montpellier. For her serie intimate space, she became interested in the relationship between the nude and nature.

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Hal Robert Myers

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Hal Robert Myers, 50 years old, lives in Newport Beach, California: "I got seriously interested in photography perhaps six years ago. I've been a creative director most of my professional life and traveled to more than 45 countries, and lived in five. That kind of global experience has imbued me with...

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Larry Torno: Something never seen before

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Larry Torno, American, St. Louis, Missouri, 58 yrs. old. "I have a 35-year career as an art director and graphic designer. In 2004 I took a trip to Carmel, California to visit a friend and his wife. Their love of photography and the lush landscapes of the great American west w...

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Marc Schroeder
Athens, summer 2011

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Marc Schroeder, born 1974 in Luxembourg. Prior to became photographer, he was working in investment banking in London and New York. He shares his life between his home country Luxembourg and Paris: "These images were taken between 11 and 17 Aug 2011. I spent a few days in the Gree...

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Thomas Duval
La Réunion

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Thomas Duval, 26, lives in Lille after spending many years in La Réunion. He practices primarily street photography: "La Réunion has remained something special for me, I tried to take a look intimate and tender."

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Elisabeth Schneider
L'envers du décor

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Elisabeth Schneider was born in 1971. She lives in Paris, having worked for the past ten years with Isabelle Menu and at the newspaper Libération as a printer of black and white and color images. Today, she is a documentary photographer, producing stories on the issue...

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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David Betzinger
La dolce vita

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Instead of a resume, a poem:
"On ne sait pas où l'on va, mais on y va!
Juste pour le plaisir de sentir le vent siffler dans les oreilles, accompagné
du doux ronronnement de la vespa.
Une course furieuse à travers l'île de Hvar, ponctuée de pannes impromptues.

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Jules Vieillard
Nocturne

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Jules Vieillard, 22, is a native of Orleans (France). After spending two years at the School of Artistic Crafts in Montpellier, he presented his project to a jury. Here is his portfolio.

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Cécile Charrier
Présence

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Cécile Charrier is 38 years old, she is French and lives in Dijon. She defines her photographs as an attempt to capture "the density of the absence, that which forms the present."

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Ivan Terestchenko
Shadows

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Ivan Terestchenko was born in London in 1958. He lives in the south west of France. On his work, he wrote: "My shadow walks with me. The day she doesn't, something radical will have happened. As I acknowledge her by my side, she tells me that a part of myself blends into the place I am ste...

17.09.2011[ read full story ]

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