These are the first 6 portfolios selected by Sam Stourdzé. Sam Stourdzé is the director of the Musée de l’Elysée and the editor-in-chief of the magazine ELSE. Stourdzé specializes in images. His research focuses on the contexts of their production, distribution and reception. For several yea...

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These images are the product of a collaboration between myself and the photographer Emily Peters. The photographs are a metaphoric representation of how manufactured products shape the contours of modern identity. These masks are created with materials traditionally used...

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I'm Jürgen Bürgin, 40 years, from Berlin, Germany.
With "Urban Ballads" I'm telling stories, short instances of life in the big cities of our world. All are street photographs from strangers, unknown people, passing by in the streets of the cities. Each photo of the series is telling ...

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I'm Misha from Georgia, Tbilisi. Last year I was in Azerbaijan. This little photo set taken in Azerbaijan Ismayilli region.

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Nights of solitude and silence, wandering astray, restless, through the sleeping city. Always in the quest for some light to beat the darkness, a mirror to find the desires, fears, dreams and wounds that shape the self identity. Finding in the others one’s own hidden faces: the weakness ...

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The line between urban and suburban -- a mix of aging strip malls, modest bungalows, ubiquitous gas stations, and solitary pedestrians -- has been the focus of my recent photographic work. I refer to these settings as "middle urban," and I've approached this photography (particularly the houses) almost ...

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There is a 1000 square kilometer no man’s land surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. This dead zone is undoubtedly the most brutal and visible trace of the nuclear accident. More than 110,000 people had to pack their bags and leave ghost towns behind them.

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