From May 5 to September 18, 2011, twelve photographers were in residence in Deauville, on the northern coast of France. There were stars of the contemporary photography scene like Davis Armstrong, Massimo Vitali and Lars Tunbjörk; promising young talent like Yves Marchand and Romai...

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Lars Tunbjörk was born in Boras Sweden in 1956 ; he lives in Stockholm. The photographer has a sarcastic and humorous way of looking at the world close by / his home country and its contradictions, or the sorry uniformity of suburbia that invades the world. His pict...

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Both born around Paris in 1981 and 1987. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre started photography on their own, fascinated by architecture and by ruins they published in 2010 the book « EM »
Detroit remains of the american dream that was a critical and financial success.

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Massimo Vitali was born In Como Italy in 1944 he started photographing beaches in 1994, first those near his house in Tuscany. Massimo Vitale photographs urban beaches and rarely wild beaches, what he likes is the interaction between the city and the leisure park th...

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David Armstrong born in 1954 in Arlington Massachusetts attracted critics attention with his male nudes. In the 1990's he started photographing urban landscapes and soft landscapes
to contrast with the sharpness of his portraits. Streets lamps, neon signs and cars a...

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Alice Evans grew up in Devon South West England she studied art at the Chelsea College of art and design and at the Royal College of art.

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Namsa Leuba was born in Switzerland. In 2011 she finished her studies in visual communications in the photography section of ECAL « Ecole Cantonale d'art de Lausanne. »
In 2010 the jury « planches contact « gave her an award for students of photography schools, She ear...

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Canadian photographer Lizzie Vickery lives in London were she is studying at the Royal College of art. She likes building dioramas to present social realities

"I like to take portraits and productions , I like playing with bodies, knowing their limits and pushing away the constraints. I would like to follow up and push this work creating an other language that would offer an alternative to our codes of communications classical and normalized."

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Damian Griffiths was born in 1979 he lives and works in London after his graduation from Saint Martins College of Art and design he is now at the Royal Collage of Art.

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Romain Mader was born in 1988 at Aigle in switzerland with a diploma in data processing actually in his second year in photography at ECAL his favorite photographers Larry Sultan, Martin Parr, Nikki, S. Lee, Roman Signer, Richard Kern and Taryn Simon.

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Born in switzerland Cyril Porchet has a master of art director from ECAL he had exhibitions at « La Maison Européenne de la photographie in 2010 and at the museum für Gestaltung in Zurich.

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Created by the SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédia) the Scam Grand Prize for portfolio work, the “Roger Pic Scam Award” in recognition of its creator Roger Pic, offers 4500€ and an exhibition at the Scam headquarters. The prize honors an author’s portfolio of 15 pictu...

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The Beaux-Arts Academy Photography Award was created by Academy member Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière in March 2007. This mid-career prize is designed to help finance a professional photographer’s current project. With no age limit, the prize is open to French or foreign candidates ...

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The 43 albumen photographs on view at Robert Anderson Gallery compromise a rare, and for the most part, first time ever public view of the unique medical images by Reed Brockway Bontecou, MD, Surgeon in-Charge of Harewood U.S. Army General Hospital, Washington, D.C., from the Coll...

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On the cover of Gitta Seiler’s About Girls (Kehrer Verlag) is a beautiful teenager carefully applying mascara to her lashes as she gazes in a compact. Her skin glows with the porcelain finish that youth possesses in droves, and she reclines comfortably as she makes herself beautiful....

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The Photo League was one of the first photography cooperatives, and a pioneering force in the history of photography. A new exhibition and documentary reexamine its members dreams of social justice, which they sought by way of the image.

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The photographic week that was in the U.S. media: the week when Muammar el-Qaddafi met his inglorious end, his body becoming nothing more than a trophy for amateur photographers to snap. It was the week when a magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck southeastern Turkey, leaving hundred...

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This week, a single subject: after forty-two years of dictatorship—better than Hitler, Stalin and other sinister characters that History is obliged to remember—the distinguished, blood-stained guest of so many short-sighted leaders... Muammar Gaddafi is dead. “The End of a Tyrant,...

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Femininity, glamour, playful, dreamy, and some black & white. These are but a few of the ingredients we found in the kitchens of several fashion magazines this Fall season.

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