Festival

Amsterdam: Unseen Photo Fair 2012

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Last Wednesday in Amsterdam, started the first edition of UNSEEN Photo Fair. Born of the meeting of Foam, the Vandejong agency and Platform A, the UNSEEN Photo Fair is directed by Marloes Krijnen, Pjotr de Jong and Roderick van der Lee.

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Video

Amsterdam: Unseen 2012 by Molly Benn

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Posters of UNSEEN are displayed everywhere in Amsterdan, meanwhile the festival is on the outskirts of the city, in Westerpark. The fair opened in « Westergasfabriek » while an outdoor exhibition is organised, the doors to independant editors opens and the exhibition of the C...

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Video

Amsterdam: Unseen 2012 by Molly Benn

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Interview of Christine Ollier, art director of Les Filles du Calvaire’s gallery. I asked her feelings on the first edition of the fair.

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Exhibition

Holger Trülzsch: ...our lost continuity

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Through October 27, the Galerie Michèle Chomette will present works by German photographer Holger Trülzsch. The exhibition’s title comes from Georges Bataille’s L’érotisme, and features never-before-seen photographs taken in 1974–75 and 1982–88, his New York period.

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Press Review

European press review by Michel Philippot

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The press is off the Olympics shaking itself like a wet dog. Someone should get a mop. The papers seem lost after these thrilling weeks, as if they were standing on the edge of a cliff and afraid of heights. Their headlines are filled with odd places, strange animals, and a...

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Press Review

US press review by
Paul Melcher

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Maybe because it is Fall or just maybe because it global warming but somehow a lot of water has appeared in numerous of this weeks images. Far from the legal turmoils of a half naked princess sun bathing in the South of France, the world news seems to have taken a special attachment ...

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Book

Miss Rosen
Book Review #37

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Brooklyn is country. It is the country of the greatest city in the world. It is the place where New York’s energy stops for a breath and exhales itself back into the Universe. It is the place where all the vibrations of Manhattan resonate at their own frequency. It is a place that is at on...

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Exhibition

Documental Imaginário
Fotografia Brasileira

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Provide an overview of contemporary Brazilian photography—that’s the challenge taken up by Eder Chiodetto, curator of the exhibition Documental Imagiário, held at the Flamengo cultural center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Through September 30, photographs by João Castilho,...

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Exhibition

Cindy Sherman: Portraits with landscapes

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Gagosian Gallery presents a series of recent landscape format photographs by Cindy Sherman. This is her first exhibition with the Paris gallery, following exhibitions in Los Angeles and Rome in previous years. Working exclusively as her own model for more than...

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Exhibition

Eric Prinvault
Poverty in Marseille

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Does poverty still exist if we don’t show it?
With the photographer Eric Prinvault and the the activity leader Anzimou, the children from the Centre Social et Familial of Saint-Gabriel in Marseille took up their disposable cameras to respond to this question.

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Magazine

Steve McCurry for Reporters sans Frontières

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For more than thirty years, Steve McCurry, with his sense of color and light, has made his work a reference point in the world of photography. Born in Philadelphia, he left the United States for India in 1978, the first of many trips to come. In 1979, he snuck into rebel-c...

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Exhibition

Brussels: David Drebin, Second Tour

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David Drebin's work combines voyeuristic and psychological viewpoints. He offers the viewer a dramatic insight into emotions and experiences which many of us have doubtlessly felt at. some point in our lives. After successfully completing the Parsons School of Design in New York C...

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Exhibition

Jungjin Lee
So Far... So Close...

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The Galerie Camera Obscura presents, for the first time in France, the Korean artist Jungjin Lee, with works selected from two series, Wind and Thing, which have both been the subject of a monograph. (Wind: Aperture, New York, 2009. Thing: Minseogak, Seoul, 2005.)

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Awards

Vattenfall Photo Prize 2012: Submissions

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Danger: High Voltage! Whether we encounter it in storms, thrillers, sports, games, electricity, conflict, or love—our lives are full of tension. Tensions arise in all forms and levels of intensity: they can tickle our nerves or engulf us in stress; sometimes they can even be d...

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Exhibition

Boston: Rania Matar, Girls In Between

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"L'Enfant-Femme" (the Child-Woman) are portraits of young teens and pre-teens, and how they interact with the camera. The only instruction I give the girls is not to smile and I allow them to fall into their poses as they wish. My aim is to capture alternatively the angst, the se...

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Exhibition

It’s Raining Stars !

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From movie stars to the man on the street, from James Dean to the Queen of England, the SIAAP presents Ciel, il pleut! featuring 46 photos of stars caught in the rain taken by Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Jean Gaumy, Guy Le Querrec, Marie-Paule Nègre, Willy Ronis, Sebastiao Salgado, Carle d...

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