These are the 5 portfolios of the week, 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 seve...

19.05.2012[ read full story ]

My first inspiration is humanist photography. I began in 1997 in the studios of the Centre de l’Image in Mexico and showed my first films in their makeshift labs, composing photographic scenes on the trails of Indian villages and in the streets of Mexico City. I further developed my vision during my t...

19.05.2012[ read full story ]

Ripped open buses, turned over earth, exploded cars and, here and there, overequipped soldiers, rooted to the spot, proudly showing off their heavy weapons. And then suddenly everything comes alive. They crawl, shoot, run. They kill and die. But not for real!

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Mexico is a country very close to my heart, it is a place of constant contradictions, on the one hand throughly modern and the other very traditional. I recently managed to spend a few weeks there travelling across the country with no particular plan apart from looking at people, places a...

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Mazaccio & Drowilal met in 2006 and felt an immediate kinship. Influenced by conceptual art, cinema, and Japanese and American photography, they developed a critical eye in the privacy of their daily lives, envisioning a way to photograph as a duo, both in the taking of the photogra...

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Séverine Gautier, 40, began taking pictures after spending a few years doing audiovisual work. She trained at the Centre Iris in 2011. A Marseilles native, she now lives in Paris. This short series entitled "Lost in Translation" follows a woman in an unfamiliar city.

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