These are the final 5 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...

26.05.2012[ read full story ]

Who said the body is a finished thing?
Is it not bone, flesh, and skin making up a head, a torso, arms and legs? Under certain gazes, it loses its humanity when cut in pieces or moved about. In my projects, the body is the material. I use it the way that others use paint for canvases,...

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Making a portrait of an entire country is impossible. But that’s exactly what I tried to do during my travels through Georgia, twenty years after the dissolution of the USSR. Apart its from conflict with Russia in 2008, I have long been drawn to the work of filmmaker Otar Iosselian...

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Grounded in the ideals of a counter-cultural past and freed from the forced constraints of a conventional camp experience, these photographs explore a society of teenagers empowered through otherwise impossible freedoms. Nestled in the mountains of Massachusetts is Rowe Camp, a ...

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Across Europe, Spain is one of the countries taking longer to recover from the economic crisis. In Spain, there is an estimate of 1.200.000 empty houses due to the financial instability of the real state market that is affecting the majority of Spain. At the same time, Spain has one of ...

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Once a year undertakers from all over Europe take part in the „Devota“, a trade fair for the funeral and mortuary business, displaying a wide range of grave and tomb supplies, coffins, as well as diverse religious items.

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