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 ]

I am a 52 year old American photographer from Rochester, New York. Although I am a self taught photographer, I am grateful for all the input and feedback teach- ing from colleagues over the past two years that has helped me better under- stand the medium.
I have been photograph...

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

Self-taught photographer, Jacques Guillaume, after many years as a social worker in Seine-Saint-Denis, very naturally began working for local communities and businesses. This field experience allowed him to work in many different environments, developing a taste for a success in the ar...

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

Born in 1968 I'm a photographer based in Rome, Italy. Geared towards documentary photography I'm interested in social and environmental issues. Lake Urmia is a salt lake located between the Iranian regions of East and West Azerbaijan. It is the largest inland lake of Middle East, with...

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

For the last five years, Chadwick Tyler has been a singular voice in photography both in fine art and in fashion. What was originally considered too dark, romantic, and subtle, is now acknowledged as his very personal narrative. He focuses on the feminine strength in atypical ways to a...

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I paint with my camera. My goal is to reveal the abstract nature of found, urban images. I have found my focus in the urban landscape; roaming the city’s back streets depicting the disorder of decay and the random marks that end up on walls.

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Life after Zog and other stories is an ongoing project bringing to light an evolving web of stories, both personal and political, set against the wider cultural and geographical landscape of Albania. As a child, Tocci witnessed streams of disillusioned Albanians docking on the c...

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This year I was honored to be chosen for the Prix Pictet Commission, which took me on a thousand-mile safari in a part of Kenya that most tourists never see. There I encountered a confederation of NGO’s working closely with local tribes to create a sustainable way of life based on principle...

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Istanbul Book is a personal project that aims to document Istanbul, which is one of the oldest city in the world, by using newest digital technologies and different techniques.

22.10.2011[ read full story ]

This series comes from a photography diary that I have been keeping since I arrived in Montreal with my wife and our one year old daughter in April 2010.

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Borderline feelings of a female soul don‘t depend on age or experience. They become acute at the presence of a frightening reality and visible in the moments when the horror of existence become associations and vice versa. The place between “I am” and “I will be” is mystical and...

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In February of 2011, I went with a LA friend to visit Ramona Gardens (Los Angeles, CA), a surreal place where the past seems to not leave. While being shown around the neighborhood by the locals, we realized this place has been a battlefield... every 30 feet or so our resident guides ...

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Othello De’Souza-Hartley is a photographer and Visual artist. He received an MA in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Art, a Post Graduate in Photography from Central St Martins School of Art and a BA Honors in Media and Cultural with Drama and Theatre Arts from Middlesex Unive...

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Born in 1982 in Toulouse, Hortense Soichet works on the representation of territories, focusing on questions about living quarters. After working for more than one and a half years on the Goutte d'Or neighborhood of Paris, she is currently working in several outerlying city...

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I am former Vice Chairman of Virgin Music Group Worldwide and Virgin Records America. I was with Virgin for 25 years, since a teenager, and retired from music a few years ago. I began taking photos just under 5 years ago. I am totally self taught and never used a camera until...

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My name is Jean Cazals, I am a London-based food photographer who frequently travels to Paris. I work essentially on cook books with numerous international chefs or on a theme. I have worked on 80 books to date.

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