6 portfolios. These are the first 6 portfolios chosen by David Friend, Vanity Fair's editor of creative development. All the month of July David Friend will select each weekend's portfolios.

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My name is Freddie Bonfanti, I'm 28, Italian born, Australian residing photographer. I live in Sydney, New South Wales. Over a year ago i decided to get on the streets and document Australia's diversity as honestly and as raw as i possibly could.

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Air travel once was a matter of luxury. Decades ago considered a miracle, flying commercial aviation now is regarded to be as usual as taking a bus. Nowadays, it is a part of our routine, which constantly reveals itself in new faces. Advertising aura of commercial av...

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I started for curiosity. I did what milions of people do everyday in the web. I clicked the most researched word, “sex”, and began to watch amateur porn videos. I have been a voyeur, a spectator in front of my monitor as a stage. Through my camera I observed, operating in the meantim...

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When looking at photography from a historical perspective it seems everything has been discovered and nothing new will be invented. Alex Katz, an American painter, said: [Mental] image precedes a photograph. Therefore limits of possible in photography can only be established by our imaginatio...

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This series features Voodoo cult members at the Togo Festival des Divinités Noirs (Festival of Black Gods) in December 2011, and the rise of the evangelicals in Porto-Novo, Benin in 2012. Through traditional African culture, we seek visions that might provide insight into t...

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Since 1975, 14,644 people have disappeared Italy. Four hundred each year, more than one per day. Not a single one has been found. The reasons for their disappearances rarely come to light. But all of the cases are classified in the same category: ‘voluntary absence’. Throughout the country, m...

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