Tense transfer in Paris : on November 15, an official press release simultaneously informed the public and the AFP staff that Erik Monjalous, former AFP « Group Sales and Marketing Director » was joining the sipa press staff as "head salesman".

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The Athens Photo Festival is a relatively young festival with a very long pedigree. Inaugurated in 2008 as the continuation of the International Month of Photography (Athens) that took place yearly from 1987 to 2007, the Athens Photo Festival runs from mid-October until the end of November...

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Rahi Rezvani’s work can best be described as a cross between film, photography and painting. His father was a painter and a large part of his immediate family works in the film industry. Traces of each of these disciplines can be found in Rezvani's work.

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«For a Swiss, I am a Japanese and for a Japanese I am a Swiss or rather a gaijin». My name is David «Takashi» Favrod. I was born on the 2nd of July 1982 in Kobe, Japan, of a Japanese mother and a Swiss father. When I was 6 months old, my parents decided to come and live in Swi...

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A fiddle wails, a boot taps the wooden floor. A mandolin, a banjo, a washboard, and a guitar come crashing in, and suddenly the air is alive with music.

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“Girls In Uniform” (since 2003) is an ongoing project that includes series of photographs, sculptures, installations and video works in plan.

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The Mask and The Mirror, an exhibition of self-portraits curated by artist Shirin Neshat, is on view at Leila Heller Gallery in Chelsea. The exhibition will take place in the Gallery’s new space at 568 West 25th Street and will present photographs and paint...

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Paris auctioneer Françoise Caste-Deburaux, of the Compagnie Marocaine des Œuvres et Objets d'Art (CMOOA) is organizing the first contemporary Arabic, Turkish and Iranian photography sale in Morocco. The sale is comprised of approximately 70 photographs including international...

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Like a magnet, Paris Photo attracted a variety of Auction houses that scheduled their fall photography offers during this period. Not including internet events, the 10 local sales were all presented in La Lettre.

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The Sotheby’s auction on November 11 offered major lots attracting more than 140 international bidders in the room, on the phone or on the website resulting in a global sale of 1,9 millions d'euros. According to Simone Klein, European Director of Photography for Sotheby’s, “Co...

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Not all photojournalistic story has to be about war and destruction. Nor does it has to show decay, decadence and desolation. Some can be about life and it's celebration, about growth and awakening, about rebirth and fulfilled promises.

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The photographs in this exhibition depict the scenic attractions of Sorrento and Capri, and famous ancient archaeological sites such as Pompeii and Agrigento, as well as offering impressions of everyday life in the city of Naples itself, where, more than anywhere else in Italy, the oppo...

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Tim Handfield is a photographer’s photographer, a leading exponent of New Colour Photography in Australia in the 70s, collected for aesthetic as much as documentary reasons. As the director of a colour lab for over 20 years, Tim has pioneered and introduced new technologies, and is the maste...

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