Weekend Portfolio

Jean-Luc Monterosso's selection

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Jean-Luc Monterosso triumphed. Portfolios were still arriving yesterday morning. Here is his final selection, and his personal commentary:

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Anabel Werbrouck
Familles orphelines

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In all countries where you have a big HIV/AIDS epidemic, at first you don’t see any orphans at all, as they are absorbed by the traditional systems. And then all of a sudden you seem to reach some type of breaking point and you start finding these children in the streets, you st...

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Carolina Arantes
Living to leave

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Originally from Brazil, I have lived for the past three years in Paris. I would like to share with you my report on the elderly in France, taken last July in Arles, France. The lives of the elderly are inseparable from our own daily lives. And yet the elderly, even members of our fa...

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Cecile Menendez
Rapid Eye Movement

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As an avid dreamer, I explore specific memories and sequences that appeared to me during my dreams. I am not trying to present a dream-like vision of the body, but simply to photograph my subjects more impulsively, sometimes candidly or by having them pose. By working in this libe...

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Daniel Orlando
Remember Ramon

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Remember Ramon explore the Family and modus vivendi, combining portraits, still life and landscape; searching especific moments that provide some reflects on uncertainly creating an intimate story.

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Corinne Mariaud
Climax

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I stage ordinary people in order to beautify nature and address the question of identity in modern society. I use the body, the strengths and resistances that define it, to express the fragility and vulnerability of the human being in its environment, but also its capacity to disrup. With ...

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Cédric Calandraud
Far away, the lights

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This project is called Far away, the lights. It is part of my work in that it is the result of the past two years of living in two cities. When i decided to move to Sweden, I tried, for the last six months, to memorize the images and feelings I had during the past t...

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Fabrice Balossini
Negaeri

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France and Japan share the privilege of having the two largest parks of nuclear energy. Perhaps this gives the French, more than any other nation, the right to observe the catastrophe in Fukushima like a drama that concerns them directly. You can read Fabrice Balossini's full text in the ...

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France Dubois
Behind the Window

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France Dubois examines the subtle relationship between the society and the individual. Behind the Window depicts old age as it is experienced daily in a Brussels retirement home, and Bruxelles 0-3 shows the sincere and spontaneous world of children that she observed during work at a ...

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Karen Biswell
A tres bandas

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I started this work 5 years ago during my annual travel to Colombia.
After the death of my grand father 28 years ago, the departure of his glorious soul stopped time in the house. He was a celebrated champion of billiards across Latin America.

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Jeremy Saint-Peyre
Kibera Slum

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I have done this report in Kibera (the most populated slum of Nairobi, in Kenya) in July 2009. It was my first time on the African continent, so I had a lot of prejudices that Westerners and Europeans usually have. I had well planned my report, around four months before leaving. That’...

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Zoe Hatziyannaki
Secrets & Crises

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Zoe Hatziyannaki (b.1976, Athens) studied photography in Kent Institute of Art & Design,) and completed her MA and her practice-based PhD in 2010 in Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work has been exhibited in UK and Greece. Her main interests involve ways of collaboration betw...

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