“It is just incredible” said Craig F Walker when he understood that the bursts of joy from colleagues at The Denver Post photo department meant he had won his second Pulitzer in less than three years in the ‘feature’ category.

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This Monday in New York, the AFP photographer Massoud Hossaini was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in the "Breaking News" category. The prize was awarded for his photograph of a young girl crying in the wake of a suicide attack in Kabul in December 2011. The Pulitzer is one of the most ...

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In a northern French daily newspaper, the following comment was recently published: “Lens has the Louvre, Metz has Beaubourg, and tomorrow, Lille will have the Maison Européenne de la Photographie". Reality is a bit different, less exotic, more realistic. On April 13, 2012, Martine Aub...

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According to statistics, in Papua New Guinea two thirds of the women are constantly exposed to domestic violence and about 50% of them become victims of sexual assaults (in Chimbu and Western Highlands provinces, 97% and 100% respectively of women surveyed said they had been as...

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In this time of elections, what do we really know about the diversity of the French? Photography has, on numerous occasions, provided us with the opportunity to see (exhibitions or books) giant and costly frescos of the French countryside, but very little about its inhabitants, their life...

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“A rock is a roc is a roque”: that’s the droll, gimmicky title that artistic director Nicolas Havette has given to his new photography exhibition. Through June 15, the gallery Magasin de Jouets in Arles will welcome three talented young contemporary photographers who confront their worlds, ...

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The Sunil Gupta exhibition Sun City and Other Stories opened on March 23 at the Alliance Française in New Delhi. It was closed by police the next day. The scheduled April 3 reopening has yet to take place.

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Off Guadalcanal in 1942, at one o’clock in the morning, I am on the cruiser Vincennes, and they sound general quarters. I roll out of bed and throw on my clothes, run out and get up on deck because we’re being pounded.

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Christopher Thomas was born in 1961 in Munich. In 2010, he became fascinated with the Passion of the Christ plays performed in Oberammergau. Since taking a vow in 1633, every ten years the inhabitants of this small town put on a show depicting the suffering, death and resurr...

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He was the first President of Independent Algeria. He was born on Christmas day, 1916, in Maghnia in a house built by his father and grandfather, this where in 1981, Christian Rausch and Gérard Grizbec spent three days with him and his family following his liberati...

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