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Diego Goldberg
Tango

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One must start by saying that tango is the only dance which is suggestive of an intimate kiss, a kiss representing Passion. It is the soul of tango, that which separates it from all other popular music and which explains also why it is so popular in the glacial culture of our globalization.

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Paola Guigou
Portraits d'Archives

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This series combined the works of Paola Guigou (photographer),
Elizabeth Sillard (3D graphic designer), and Viviane Korkmaz (digital
editor) who created an astonishing series of works, inspired by 18th
century paintings, critical in their day of the Establishment. They
provide...

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Priscilla Rattazzi
Best Friends

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I am 55 years old, I am a dual national (Italian-US). I have lived in New York for 36 years. I started photographing in high school, and worked as an assistant to Hiro after I graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1977.

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John Martin
In Character

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I got started in photography when I won a Kodak Instamatic on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It came with a roll of 126 black and white film. I took some snapshots of my friends, sent it out to be printed and was amazed that all the pictures came out. That got me started and t...

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Heidi Lender: She can leap tall buildings

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Heidi Lender once reported on the fashion universe for national magazines, styling photo shoots and writing features. Armed with a BA in apparel and textiles from Cornell University, she covered interior design, food, travel and style from New York to LA, London to Paris. A l...

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Deniz Uzunoglu
New Nus

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My name is Deniz Uzunoglu and I am originally from San Francisco, California although I currently live and work in Istanbul Turkey.
The son of a talented painter, I was always drawn to art. Specifically painting and drawing but I always had a need for absolute truth in art and fell in love ...

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Jules Vieillard
Privé Public

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I am a young French photographer. With this series, I tried to
establish a game between the spectator and the person being watched. I took pictures discreetly, without looking through the viewfinder. Private moments exposed in public. Inspired by Ansel Adams’ “The Passengers” and by L...

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Florian Reischauer
Pieces of Berlin

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Florian Reischauer, 26 Austrian born, photographer, living and working in berlin. With the blog “Pieces of Berlin”, founded in early 2010, Reischauer has found his very own, unique perspective on one of the world’s most interesting and marvelous cities – and, above all, its inhab...

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Khaled Hasan
Existence: The End

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Khaled Hasan, born in Dhaka in 1981, is a storyteller, inspiring people to appreciate and empathize with the cultures and societies he documents. Hasan began working as a photographer in 2001. He has graduated from South Asian Media Academy and Photojournalism (Pathshala). His works...

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Dolly Faibyshev
Palm Springs

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I'm an American photographer living in New York City. I am a self-taught photographer, and got started by taking photos as a hobby a few years ago. I was first inspired by a trip to Palm Springs, California. I went for a ride and fell in love with the architecture there, the houses were...

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Sylvain Granjon
Slutwalk

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Sylvain Granjon is French. Born in 1971, he currently lives in Paris.
Self-taught, he works with a Leica, with film. The first SLUTWALK,
initiated in Toronto on April 3, 2011, was a spontaneous response to
the sexist comments of Michael Sanguinetti, a Canadian police officer
investig...

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Pietro Sala
Skieurs - Sciatori

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Pietro Sala was born in 1946, he lives in Lecco (Italy). It offers a range of skiers who appear to be suspended in a vacuum, in a kind of dance performed outside the ski slope: "What is important for me in these pictures is their pictorial aspect where skiers in the fog are reduced t...

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Pierre Chiquelin
Effacement

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Trying to talk about the end, death can only be treated from a
distance. We are definitively condemned to treat the topic from a
distance. Always talking about something else. And it is that
something else that is in question here. Objects, funeral objects.

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Marc Safran
Province de Guangxi

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Marc Safran is a certified Modern Literature Professor who is
completing a poetry collection. He has been traveling the world since
2000 and has discovered Haiti, Poland, Florida, Turkey, Tunisia, and
currently, China.

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Arnaud Makalou
Etre ouvrier à Brazzaville

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Arnaud Makalou is from the Congo. He lives and works in Brazzaville.
He began taking pictures during the civil war of 1997, working with a
Zenith camera that he inherited from his sister. His first series was
of students at the Savorgnan High School of Brazza where he t...

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