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Monica Denevan
Portraits from Burma

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These images are part of my ongoing series, “Songs of the River ~ Portraits from Burma,” which depicts the isolated figure within a spare and graphic river setting. For the past eleven years, I have been returning to Burma to photograph friends and acquaintances whose livelihoods...

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Ruben Natal-San Miguel
West Harlem

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In December 2002, right after surviving The World Trade Center attacks, I decided to move to a quieter, lower rise scale neighborhood, leaving the ''Prada'' comfort of the Central Park West area to the so considered ''Nada'' of West Harlem. Being a trained Architect immediately, f...

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Stéphanie Borcard & Nicolas Métraux

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BM-photo is the result of a collaborative work between Stéphanie Borcard and Nicolas Métraux, both born in 1978: "We are a Swiss couple living for the past year in Asian hotel rooms. We like to travel slowly and to spend time in places. We are rather shy and solitary. We work on...

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Jennifer Hudson
Baptism

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Jennifer Hudson grew up in a spiritual and conservative home in rural Texas where she cultivated her curiosity and imagination. Experimenting with her artwork by offering insight and awareness about intensely personal experiences, she developed delicate “inventions”. These creations carefull...

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Christophe Boete: When Dinos were roaming

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Extension, Extinction, Excess and Extinction... What about trying the recreate what could have been the life of dinosaurus...

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Clementine Schneidermann: Elvis

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It starts with a youthful love story. Spinning records, a song that leads to another, the American dream. These people have one thing in common: they are driven by the same voice. That of the beautiful, good and generous man who fascinates them: Elvis.

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Aras Karimi
Light

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I look at photography as a relationship between light and film: light as a playful actor and film as a serious recorder. The job of a photographer, which is experimental by nature, is to write the best scenario for this one-time instant play. A genuine play is inevitably the result of accurate ey...

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Conrado Sarid-Maletah
Spiritual Vision

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Conrado Rafael P. Maleta' (Sarid-Maleta) is a cuban architect and artist. Born in 1979 (32 yso) in Santiago de Cuba; left the island in 2006 living for a long time in Madrid, Spain. Today the artist residence is in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Dragos Schenkel
Supers heroes

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I spend a lot of time in front of my computer. I've noticed that in certain light conditions I could superpose my reflection on the original image on the screen, in variable degrees of transparency. The two universes, the image from the screen and my own reflection come together into a...

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Sandra Calligaro
10 years after Kaboul

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Sandra Calligaro was born in 1981. Since 2007, she has been working and living in France and Afghanistan. An independent photographer, she is represented by the Picturetank agency.

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Augustin Le Gall
Aux Urnes Tunisiens

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To the Tunisian Polls is a series of portraits taken by Augustin Le Gall in the different neighborhoods surrounding the Kasbah of Tunis. With a distinct affection for the Mediterranean style, men and their professions are the subject of his work. His approach is clearl...

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Matteo Gozzi
Ulaan Baatar

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Matteo Gozzi, born in Rome in 1979, began at the age of fifteen with black and white photography, developing his photographs in a darkroom. From 2001 to 2002 he studied photographic techniques at the Science University of Madrid. After receiving his D.A.M.S. [Studies in Art, Music and Thea...

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Oskar Alvarado
Adirane

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Oskar Alvarado is a Spanish photographer who lives in Barcelona. He discovered photography while studying Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country. Since then, Oskar's work shows us photographs with great visual poetry, characters who interact with their intimate spaces, bounded terr...

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Jorge Alexandre Pereira
Stones

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My career as a photographer began in the middle of a photography degree (1998-2002) at Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, in Lisbon.
For more than ten years I have been producing images in various areas, from photojournalism to corporate.

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Rory White
Nashville

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These images represent my Rorshak series: images of artists integrated with their own image, all combined in one frame and printed as they were shot, without any digital manipulation. Each artist was invited to paint, tear, or otherwise mark their own portrait, and then sat in to have their im...

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