The fifteen color portraits on the walls of the Messineo-Wyman Gallery in New York are of fighters and civilians from the Karen region, a state in Burma that has been fighting for its political and economic independence for 62 years. In 2010, British photographer Jason Flor...

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Cedric Houin, 33, Aka Varial, and Fabrice Nadjari, 34, met in a Paris elementary school. Inseparable until the age of ten, they fell out of touch when they changed schools. Twenty-three years later, they met again by chance through mutual friends and social networks.

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The series Avega - The Passion, by Indian artist Pushpamala N. is currently on display at the Nature Morte Gallery in New Delhi. The photographic story focuses on three feminine figures of Ramayana, one of the two Indian mythological sagas written in Sanskrit...

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The scene seems to last forever – a caravaggesque rendering of some minor myth, in which the horror and splendor supersede the particulars of the obscure narrative.

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In this series Attrition, I am attracted to learning more about mankind which is always somewhere between grace and harshness and between sacred and the profane. My models no longer really exist. I broke each of them down and recomposed them using body parts from several other models. I used...

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My father Sam Haskins, in the last years of his life, maintained a regular correspondence with only one photographer, Charles Camberoque. They affectionately referred to each other as 'Uncle'. In our home, Mr Camberoque was famous mainly for being Charles, for the man, for his in...

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Born in 1978 in Burkina Faso, Nyaba Léon Ouedraogo only began taking pictures in 2008. My goal is to bear witness to the present. In my images, I seek not a neutral attitude, but a natural one, so that the protagonists stop trying to control their image by posing fo...

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An auction of photographs is organized on June 30 at Le Touquet in favor of the association "Open your eyes". Chaired by Renaud Jouannel, this association was created in 2000 to help people with genetic diseases of the optic nerve and to help support...

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Gleaned from thousands of images, this companion set of books offers the best of American print advertising in the age of the “Big Idea.” At the height of American consumerism magazines were flooded with clever campaigns selling everything from girdles to guns. These optimistic...

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To promote photography. At the initiative of Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière the photography section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts created in 2007 a photography prize bearing his name. The 15000€ prize is open to established photographers of any age working in France. Photographer...

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We live on the shores of history. Once in a while, elements of the past come back to us as waves, splashing about everywhere, only to retreat quietly and fuse into the sea of things already known. Such a wave hit us last week. 
With the release of more than 300,000 historical images (800,000 ...

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Opening Thursday April 26, at Bruce Silverstein Gallery in Chelsea was an exhibit of photographs by Constantin Brancusi. Despite being very familiar with Brancusi’s work as a sculptor and also knowing the photos of him and his work by Edward Steichen, I was not that aware of Brancusi’s own photog...

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