October 25th 2010: two years. The newspaper is two years old. 24 months ago, 3 mad men (Alex Kummerman, Naddermier Magnus and myself) started The Journal ( The Letter at the time). The beginnings are epics, limit catastrophics . The baby refuses the French version for 7 wee...

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In October 2011, we announced the creation of a new event dedicated to photojournalism. More than simple exhibitions of existing works, this festival finances and helps produce the work of the photographers. One year later, the first edition of the Photo Reporter festival w...

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Through November 11, 2012, these 15 never-before-seen photo series by some of today’s greatest photojournalists will be on view at different eight sites in Saint-Brieuc, France. Entry is free.

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Here are the rest of the exhibitions at the Festival Photo Reporter 2012, with 15 new photo series produced by the festival.

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The same week that NEWSWEEK announced that it will be ending it’s paper edition, another festival dedicated to photo journalism is being launched in Saint Brieuc, France. « Photojournalism : A Profession in Crisis » is the title of the festival’s first year. The o...

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Last week, the 25th edition of the Athens Photo Festival opened its doors. Organized by the Hellenic Centre for Photography and directed by Manolis Moresopoulos, the festival offers a varied program, combining internationally renowned photographers, while leaving space to the younger gener...

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The exhibition “Young Greek Photographers” has been promoting young Greek photographic ’ creativity since 1987, thus providing an annual review. Every year, the “Young Greek Photographers” shows the work of artists, aged from 18 to 35 , who may emerge as...

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Kinshasa, 2011. Eight million inhabitants, thousands of shegués (street children), hundreds of wrestlers and their brass bands. Edingwe, Dragon, City Train, Mbokotomo : the “legends” of Congolese wrestling invent themselves on a daily basis in the outskirts of Kinshasa. 
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In my leisure time series I am interested in recording the open public spaces that host or suggest leisure time. Within the frame of this series I visited Ruegen, an island in the Balitic sea. Ruegen was a favorite place of German Romantic painters like C. D. Friedrich and ...

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Giacomo Brunelli has been looking hard at animals. His focus is not on the framed and caged exotica of zoos but on the ordinary animals that remain with us to some extent: horses, dogs, cats, chickens, pigeons. He shows us a fox, looking sharply at the camera and poised to...

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I am interested in how man interacts and struggles to fit in to the urban and natural landscape. The landscape photographs I produced in Los Angeles between 1996 and 2000, that became my first book, Angels in Fall, (2001) often show a solitary figure from a distance in an ...

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Clandestine is a story about life and death. It is the story of men who risk everything in order to provide a better future for their families. The project Clandestine is an ongoing documentary project about clandestine migration from West Africa to Europe....

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The word “origins” refers both to my own source, my family, and to my discovery of the power of making pictures. I search for the beauty in the ordinary, the melodies in the commonplace. I photograph subjects that are quiet yet evoke an emotional intensity. I am fascinated by...

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Operating in the grey area between documentary and fiction, history and myth, honesty and artifice, my work is born out of a desire to better understand myself and others. I consider my role as an artist to challenge many of the assumptions we make about the world in which we ...

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