12 portfolios. These are the first 12 portfolios chosen by Jean-Luc Monterosso, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. All the month of November, Jean-Luc Monterosso will select each weekend's portfolios.

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Studio Edelweiss consists of Jan Matthys (1973, Ghent, Belgium) and Michaël Van Den Berghe ( also 1973, Ghent, Belgium). In the past few years we have been specializing in some kind of staged, narrative photography. Quite often these images are children's dreams for grown ups, mag...

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Valérie Winckler lives in the suburbs of Paris. She has been a member of the Rapho agency since 1984. In addition to her reportages and documentaries, she has been working for the past ten years without a camera, using the photogramme technique. You can read the full text i...

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Evi leads us on a trip of questions through her visual suggestions. She makes us wonder whether she reflects the history of the place or unfolds a personal story in front of our eyes through her camera. Evi Karagiannidi’s story, like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, shifts ...

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Religious statues and grottos are commonly found in housing estates, schools, crossroads, churches, railway crossings and town squares throughout Ireland. Many were erected in the Marian year of 1954 as a celebration of Mary and to protect an area and bless the people around them.

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My interest in photography began when I was a child, because my grandfather was a photographer and his home was always full of photographs and cameras. Since then they caught my attention, I was intrigued to see those people of the past. Over time I studied photography at the Sc...

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Robert Ellis was born in Dublin in 1984 and is a graduate of MFA Photography in the University of Ulster, Belfast. His photography, which has been exhibited in Ireland and abroad, often deals with the notion of “home”. Working with small rural communities, his photographs rely on inherent or l...

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I am a 26 free-lance photographer, filmmaker and journalist based between Rome and Sarajevo. In 2007 I started working on long-term documentary projects, focusing mainly on social issues and post war consequences in the Balkans.

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Her first contact with photography was at age 16. She started working in photography shops then worked in photo labs for 15 years (Fuji Film Spain among them). During 2 years focuses in architectural photography, traveling throughout Spain. Then she guide her steps into publishing, fi...

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Paolo Patruno is a humanitarian photographer who creates evocative, compelling images which promote action and change for the sake of the most vulnerable people in the world. Paolo’s social documentary work gives a powerful voice to the people that need support by capturing the real need fo...

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Baptiste Léonne is 35 and lives in Paris. "My photography contains
order and intimacy..." writes Léonne who worked in blurred black and
white for his pictures of women in the intimacy of hotel rooms.

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A few years ago I started to notice that safety cones were appearing in some of my street photography. Of course, they are designed to be highly visible, to alert us to the presence of perceived danger, to keep us separated from danger or perhaps just to reduce the likelihood of litiga...

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I am a 27 year old photographer; I grew up in France and moved to New York about 5 years ago. As I didn't have a natural aptitude for painting or drawing; I was drawn to photography, as the camera became my brush to portray the beauty that I witnessed.

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