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Billy & Hells
After Hours

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The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present After Hours, the first U.S. exhibition from contemporary photographers Billy & Hells. This retrospective exhibition is showing ethereal portraits and atmospheric landscapes from Billy & Hells’ previous photographic series. “Billy & He...

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Laetitia Molenaar
Here comes the Sun

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Imagine being able to recreate Edward Hopper's paintings into actual places. That wonderful light, to experience it in a different way.This idea started the project. One of the things I fell in love with in Edward Hopper's work is the interrelation of light and space. To transl...

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Lara Gasparotto
Demain c’était loin

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“These are simple moments from everyday life, but they are imbued with symbols, dreams, fantasy and romance which give them their meaning. Each viewer will experience his or her own sensations. Shapes appear on the rough stone, a ray of light cuts through the bleakness, reveal...

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Graham Miller
Waiting for the miracle

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Over the last seven years Australian photographer Graham Miller has produced a refined and evocative photographic record of the suburban and urban experience through his series Suburban Splendour and Waiting for the Miracle.
Suburban Splendour emerge...

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Laura Henno
Summer Crossing

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“Through staged photographs, Laura Henno composes images that make palpable the extreme tension between her characters and external reality. They are most often set in landscapes made unreal by a masterful control of light, which adds to their fictional dimension. The ...

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Julia Fullerton-Batten
In Between

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Last days to see "Julia Fullerton-Batten 2005-2012", a solo exhibition by British photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten at the Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, through December 8. Julia Fullerton-Batten 2005-2012 comprises a survey of works from Julia Fullerton-Batten’s five ...

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Valérie Archeno
Performing rituals

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In each of her photographs, Valérie Archeno constructs a mysterious nighttime world full of young people performing rituals that distance them from reality. The artist crafts elaborate stagings catches the subjects in the middle of their surreal stories. The you...

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Portfolio

Résidences Photoquai 2011 : João Castilho

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At the end of the Photoquai Biennale, the jury selects a photographer to be in residence. In 2011, the Brazilian photographer João CastilhoVade Retro with a photographic essay that reflects on the supernatural, evil and death. “Photography, which i...

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Festival

The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar

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Who wants to be a photojournalist these days? Newspapers are struggling to survive and have drastically reduced their staff; news wire services and magazines’ long-term assignments have become things of the past. Yet images are everywhere, more than ever. In this brave new world “...

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Awards

Marc Riboud de Xavier Barral, prix Nadar 2012

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Since 1955, the Association “Gens d’Images,” in partnership with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, has awarded the Prix Nadar, which recognizes the best publications of the year. The winning publications must focus on old or contemporary photography, and have been pub...

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