Discovered at Rencontres d’Arles 2011, Fernando Montiel Klint’s photographs combine the absurd and the essential, the high and the low. These images emanate from the imaginary world of dreams and ghosts, breaking free from the patterns of rational, logical thought.

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It’s a kiss, seemingly a French kiss, designed to “promote the coming together of people, faiths and cultures.” Such is the “deeply human understanding of tolerance” behind the new international campaign Unhate. The campaign is based on startling photomontages concei...

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The 7th edition of the Angkor Photo Festival begins tomorrow. Festival director Francoise Callier gave an interview to a Korean journalist.

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The Angkor Photo Festival is never organized around a single theme. Rather, it’s a convention of collective and individual exhibitions reflecting the year’s most important news stories. Here is a selection of the photographers who were invited to show their work at the festival.

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Like in previous years, the Angkor Photo Festival has invited guests to speak at its evening screenings. This year’s guests are Wang Xi, a curator in China, and Sylvia Grumbach, photo director of 2e Bureau (France). Antoine Agata will also lead a series of workshops.

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The Island of Tenerife will once again be turning into the Center of the photography in Spain throughout the month of November. Since 1991 Tenerife has been organizing a biennial photography show. This year’s edition, despite recent difficulties, will be presenting more than 200 artists ...

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The years 35/37 : avant-garde photographers are reunited for an exhibition at the legendary Pléiade gallery: Brassaï, Man Ray, André Kertesz, Henri Cartier- Bresson and… Fred Stein. An unknown. Yet this is a photographer who, as early as 1933, fled Germany and befriended Cap...

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This week, cities across the United States pushed back against the demonstrators who had been occupying public parks to protest economic inequality and a panoply of social and economic issues. In New York, Occupy Wall Street protesters were driven from their encampment in the ...

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Cecil Beaton had Style, with a capital S, and in many ways it was his aesthetic instinct that defined an era unto itself. Beaton was that rare figure in art; he was as big as his subjects themselves. Dubbed “Malice in Wonderland” by Jean Cocteau, Beaton was a powerful provocateur whose legacy...

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The photographic exhibit, Private Obsession by New York based photographer Caitlin Mitchell is a study in body image, exploration and experimentation. Mitchell plays with the idea of introducing ourselves to new experiences, which could be anything from a...

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Stated as a universal right by the United Nations, access to health care is not always ensured by public policies in many parts of the globe. In Brazil, even though the constitution clearly affirms that every citizen is entitled to free health care, the access to thes...

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Tokyo-based commercial photographer and filmmaker Bruce Osborn began his “oyako” (parent and child) series nearly 30 years ago. Now with a remarkable archive of 3,000 parent/child photos, the images offer a fascinating portrait of Japanese society. I caught u...

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