Exclusively on La Lettre, is the list of photographers selected for the first Photoreporter festival in Saint Brieuc. The winners will receive a grant to help them complete their projects. Festival director Didier Rapaud sent us the following text:

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The American photographer Holly Andres specializes in series informed by personal experience. With The Fall of Spring Hill, she revisits an event from childhood with her customary cinematographic style of narration.

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Today Ludwig Haskins presents at the University of Coventry and film retracing the life and work of his father, Sam Haskins. To mark the occasion, he shared with us this text and these images:

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These frowning portraits of important people from the fashion world, photographed by Alexandra Golovanoff, were sold by the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont the 2nd of a March 2012. This sum will go entirely to the Hôpital Necker – Enfants Malades (Necker Hospital for Sick Chil...

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“As a photographer you are looking for the same emotional moments
and design elements that might lead to an iconic image. The only
différence is that in the ‘so called’ real world, you usually do not know what might happen next, but on a film set, if you have read the scrip...

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In 1996 Steidl published Roni Horn’s Haraldsdóttir, the tenth book in her “To Place” series about the connections between identity and location. Haraldsdóttir contained portraits of the same Icelandic woman in water; each pose was similar to emphasise the infinite number of potential facial ex...

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Life magazine gave me the assignment to do “The Cats of Africa.” I had photographed some animals before, though I certainly wasn't a cat expert, but I could hire people who knew things. They’d lined up a hunter in Botswana, who was a hunter for zoos.

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The Hasselblad Award is an international photography prize, awarded for the first time in 1980. It has been presented annually since then, with the exception of the year of Erna Hasselblad’s death 1983.

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