Weekend Portfolio

Philippe Garner's selection

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Six. That's the number of portfolios chosen by Philippe Garner for his final selection with his comment: "Five weekends. Five opportunities in one month to see something of what is happening with photography in every corner of the globe and to select portfolios that catch my eye and imagi...

03.12.2011[ read full story ]

Weekend Portfolio

Anastasia Tailakova
In Vain

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Every new day gives us hundreds of opportunities. Gigabytes of new information, armfuls of exciting events, kilometres of unexplored places, chances of adventitious meetings – all this is waiting for us with the beginning of each 24-hour time span, which we are to use as effectively and ...

25.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Jessica Forde
Slovenia The Lake

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East Teens documents a generation of a "postwar" Eastern European youth. Jessica Forde, was born in London in 1966 and is now based in Paris. She has taken pictures since adolescence and has worked for the past ten years as a unit still photographer.

24.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Tito Mouraz
Open Space Office

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The series presented here was shot in Portugal over a 2-year period and represents a transformed landscape that portrays the existence of Man as a constructive, reconstructive and contemplative being. The landscape appears completely and irreversibly transformed and it was this transfo...

24.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Daria Tuminas
Ivan and the Moon

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I was born in 1984 in St.-Petersburg, Russia. I have always been interested in approaching photography in several ways. First of all, I am doing academic researches. I wrote an MA thesis about amateur photography at St.-Petersburg State University and for now I am a student at Leiden...

24.12.2011[ read full story ]

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François Delebecque
Nocturne Végétale

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The night, along with rudimentary lighting effects, allows me to reveal the raptures of nature and the tremors of the human soul. François Delebecque, 56, lives in Malakoff, France.

24.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Marcelo Refinetti
Father’s Farm

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William Eggleston and Stephen Shore are important names for me in photography - I learnt from them that sometimes our weird forgotten backyard can be more interesting for people than a famous city - if shown with poetry and personal interpretation.

24.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Aleksey Tikhonov
Adaptation

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When the human eyesight adapts to darkness, the sensitiveness of the eye amplifies by a million times, but the process is very slow and takes hours. It is an exceptional experience afloat at night. At first there’s nothing but darkness, gradually the line of horizon emerges and the sea d...

24.12.2011[ read full story ]

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