Weekend Portfolio

Tim Jefferies's Selection

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These are the first 6 portfolios selected by Tim Jefferies. He included this message with his selection: "Having spent the last three decades looking at photographs, there seems to be few surprises, however, I particularly like the work of these 6 photographers."

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Michael Jantzen
Deconstruction

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"Deconstructing the Churches" is a series of photo collages that are part of a larger series of photos, which visually deconstruct parts of the real world that we normally think of as stable. Sections of the photos are simply rotated out of their normal positions relative to the whole...

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Martina Maffini
Etruria

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This new series is part of a project I recently began concerning Etruria, an ancient Italian region now part of Tuscany, Lazio, Emilia-Romagna and Umbria. As always in my photography, elements of the landscape come together with intimacy, embracing a dimension that is at once documentary in ...

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Sharon Boothroyd
Edeilwess

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"Edelweiss" is an ongoing series conceived as a visual lullaby using my daughter Anais. I began using the child as a means of portraying feminine grace, pain and suffering with all the trouble it brings. I am also interested in everyday moments where pain and routine events give way to som...

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Fernanda Chemale
ElephantCitySerpent

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In my everyday life I find the images in ElefanteCidadeSerpente [ElephantCitySerpent]. I look for traces of a urban man and I take his objects and spaces to myself. Situations present themselves in obvious casual actions. Exploring human tracks, I see just how particular anonymit...

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Srikanth Kolari
Rat holes of Meghalaya

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It is not widely known that about 70,000 children work as miners in the highly dangerous and suffocating coal mines of Meghalaya which line the Jaintia Hills of Northeast India. The child miners descend into the mines using un-sturdy makeshift ladders made only from branches. O...

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