This year, the Photaumnales (France) and the KAUNAS PHOTO festival (Lithuania) celebrate their ninth year. Mindaugas Kavaliauskas, founder and art director of the Lithuanian festival, has focused on the originality and freshness of contemporary photography, while paying tribute to...

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Enormous spaces, endless walkways, wide sluices, cryptic signs; all combined with miles of cables and pipes. They form a technical universe that radiates a cool logic. A hidden world, known only to a few and yet which has a huge influence on our day to day lives, absolutely essential i...

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Alexandra Demenkova continues the classical tradition of humanistic photography . In the series Territory of Broken Dreams for the photographer chose a Russian village and its people.

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Evaldas Butkevičius speaks a visual language that is understandable to everyone. For two decades he has been working as a reporter for one of the largest daily newspaper, facing the dynamic daily life of Kaunas. It seems that the city rhythm is nothing more than banality, bi...

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This unique documentary material is about the decadence of youth in the early days of Lithuanian independence. The years were marked by the breakthrough in a variety of freedoms, private businesses, such as cafes, and the acceptance of eroticism and other attributes of that era...

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A silent observer, Andreas Meichsner documents in his photographs how the vacation we’ve been waiting for so long has a way of plunging us into an agonizing tug-of-war between the contradictory need for freedom on the one hand and security on the other. The reass...

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Considerations of vision—of how we look at the world at large, as well as how we customarily employ photography to document and speak to our surroundings—have long been central to my interests within photography. What do we look at photographically, and what do we ignore?

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This is my latest project called Déjà Vu which refer to movies where the photographers are present at a moment when they are taking photo. We were never shown those « photos » in the movies… that was left to us, spectators, to virtually freeze that moment… to imagine the photo. So...

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" More than a 150 years ago, photographers traveled from town to town with a photographic van documenting communities. I am doing a modern version of the same, by capturing the spirit of the Los Angeles Lithuanian community at St. Casimir’s Parish using the civil war era wet plat...

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Transnational migration is perhaps the most highly contested issue across Europe. Over the last twenty-years Ireland has experienced significant inward migration. For new arrivals spatial and temporal displacement is potentially traumatic, resulting in shifting identities where ...

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"What Photography reproduces is something that has occurred only once, then die, expire, never to be repeated." (Roland Barthes)
Why not try to recover, revive those moments ? My role, as an artist, is to bring to life what once has died. Resurrect transcedental moments of Photogra...

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Behind the ambiguous title of “Blow Job” hides a performance held during the Vilnius design week, when a photographer was inviting people to get photographed in an unusual way. The photographer was inviting everyone and anyone to sit not just in front of a camera, but also in front of a...

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I consider my current work as an open project, which grows parallel to an everyday creative activity based on lived experience. 
For this particular series, that began in 2008, I collected my Facebook profile pictures. I experienced the process of producing images that will be my...

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Les Photaumnales are partners of the Kaunas festival, a Lithuanian city two hours from Beauvais by plane. A member of the European Community since 2004, Lithuania has a population of three million. History has long mistreated this Baltic tribe. Photography was only ...

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Only eight years after Nazi Germany’s surrender, Josef Heinrich Darchinger began his career as a photographer in the Federal Republic of Germany. Major cities reduced to rubble during the War showed few signs of improvement. But the photographs do not suggest the collapse of c...

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In Beauvais, travel is easy. The city’s airport serves many European cities. Every year, the photography collective Diaphane sends photographers to discover the city of their choice, challenging them to return with a dozen images in four days. Thierry Girard flew to Lithuania. “I...

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Before me a snow-covered bridge, the bluish evening light and wolf tracks, I have spent the past two days in the forbidden zone of Chernobyl. I didn’t want to come back here. I had spent too much time here between 2009 and 2011. Four months losing myself in this forbidden place t...

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Whether it’s an acid portrait of Sweden, of the nightmarish world of offices, or the distressing uniformity of suburban residential areas, or the situation of marginalized people in a country vaunted for its social protection system, in a strange city near the Arctic Circle, Lars T...

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Chance placed in my hands two very similar photographs. On the first, two little girls. On the second, two women in their thirties. Same decor, same pose, same angle, same complicity. I wanted to give life to these mystery photographs, to invent their stories, and start time runni...

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Somerset Stories, Fivepenny Dreams reflects on the sense of belonging and identity connected to Venetia’s childhood home. Exploring the haunts of her youth and the lives of the current inhabitants, the series intimately documents her surroundings and families who live there.

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Southern Ireland, October 2011. I am following the traces of my father, who disappeared 16 years ago. He left with five friends for a week-long motorcycle tour. Destiny scatter signs on the road. It is The only way to know the arbitrary. In the confusion of the days, I seem to be my...

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Obsessed with the issue of consumer society, I stood on the sidelines of the Tour de France to see the show everyone was waiting for: the caravane publicitaire, a convoy of vehicles promoting the sponsors. But little did I expect to be so shocked by the behavior of the public. Wi...

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What do people do behind their closed doors, hedges, fences and gates? Unlike in the Anglo-Saxon countries, the French close themselves in. For a long time I asked myself : is it to protect oneself from outside dangers, or to protect one’s privacy? 
People in the Pays de Bray ...

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The French Minister of Culture and Communication, Aurélie Filippeti, has announced the end of a law—’La Loi Guigou’—that limits who and what photographers in this country can photograph, and where they are allowed to publish them. The announcement was made in the latest issu...

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