TEFAF Maastricht is not the first place one would imagine shopping for fine art photography, although it is proclaimed the "world's leading art and antiques fair." There is no dedicated section for the medium and the handful of participating specialized galleries are dispersed amo...

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The FotoVisura Award was given to photographer Erin Trieb for The Homecoming Project, which focuses on the psychological and emotional impact the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have on America’s newest generation of veterans and their communities. The Spotlight Student Award was given to Brad Vest...

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In the past decade America has become accustomed to viewing images of US troops involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As media coverage of both prolonged conflicts begins to wan, American audiences grow numb. However, the severity and impact of these wars on th...

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After raising two children, Darren and Kim Wilson represent the changing roles of grandparenting in southeast Ohio. Following Kim’s daughter’s drug related custody forfeiture of her two children, Jenna and Ayden, the grandparents find themselves as parents for the second ...

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My camera gives me courage. It allows me to look at things that scare me, to speak to strangers who don’t share my language and to connect with people whose daily experiences are the opposite of my own. It guides me through difficult times in my own life and reveals the challenge...

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Forgotten and useless things covered in dust, emaciated cats running around searching for leftovers, rooms taken over by spider webs and the strong odor of alcohol. These were just part of the chaos I encountered while photographing the village of Palmowo, my birthplace, and i...

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In 2008, Nagorno Karabakh’s de facto government introduced the “birth encouragement program”, which distributes cash payments to newlyweds for each baby born, with the aim of repopulating the region after the devastating 1991-1994 war. Since its introduction 4 years ago...

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Over the past 15 years, more than 250,000 farmers have committed suicide in rural India. This has been especially common among cotton farmers in the state of Maharashtra in southwestern India.

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I am more interested in poetry than fact, in the ever-so-slight transformation of reality achieved through a lyrical gaze rather than a supposedly ‘objective’ depiction; and yet I firmly believe that, paradoxically, the magic and mystery immanent in everyday reality can best be...

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Inspired by the French authorities' solution to move Romas from point A to point B, Romanian authorities planned and started forced evictions of Roma informal settlements in cities like Cluj-Napoca and Baia Mare. Some of these settlements date back to the early 1990’s. These c...

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Since my 2009 project, The Point of View, I have been looking at various aspects of the viewing process and, consequently, decision making in photography, in terms of the perspective and, even more so, the framing. I've also been examining the consequences these process...

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Growing up in Virginia, my childhood field trips were to cigarette factories and civil war battlegrounds, with a brown bag lunch in tow. As a young girl I could often be found holding a dixie cup full of Kool-Aid powder, with a few drops of water, making a sweet sugary paste for...

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The exteriors of the houses and apartment blocks display a multitude of open wounds. The holes made by machine-gun fire and the white blotches of concrete, used to fill up the gaping cavities created by the bombs, look like imaginary constellations scattered across the whol...

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The Gali district of Abkhazia lies in the South East of the territory, along the disputed border with Georgia, and is home to an estimated 40,000 Mingrelian Georgians who have managed to return since the end of civil war in the early 1990s.

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“Before the war our life was good, we had four little girls. I learned to farm when I was a girl in Somalia. We got separated when the war came to our home, the home where my parents were killed. We started running, and the older girls ran away on their own. It was too dangerous fo...

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