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Anja Hitzenberger
Chinese Fast Food

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This series — shot in the fall of 2011 in a temporary food court set up inside Beijing’s Olympic Park — reveals a visually and viscerally overloaded fast-food culture that may make some mouths water and other bellies ache. Concentrating on the saturated visual displays of the foo...

31.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Justin Winz
Paris

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With Paris, artist Justin Winz is presenting his second book, following the sold out debut „American Detail“, from 2008. The self-published artist book will have its international launch at the „Paris Photo“ art fair in the Grand Palais in Paris this november, in collaboration with the in...

03.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Charles Roussel
Sleeping Out

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I am a 27 year old photographer; I grew up in France and moved to New York about 5 years ago. As I didn't have a natural aptitude for painting or drawing; I was drawn to photography, as the camera became my brush to portray the beauty that I witnessed.

05.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Robert Ellis
New Line

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Robert Ellis was born in Dublin in 1984 and is a graduate of MFA Photography in the University of Ulster, Belfast. His photography, which has been exhibited in Ireland and abroad, often deals with the notion of “home”. Working with small rural communities, his photographs rely on inherent or l...

05.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Alessandro Valente
Landscape

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Photographic works generally documenting the American social landscape. Particular interests include issues of land use and the environment, documentation and preservation of the architecture of the recent past, and documentary projects to create visual records in the manner of national...

21.01.2012[ read full story ]

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Sean Lee
Homework

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I started making images about my family on a regular basis upon completing my course in the School of Theology in Singapore. It was also around that time that I started having a sneaky suspicion that the reason why I have always felt the need to create is because I was first created by an uncreate...

25.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Steve Davis
As American Falls

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As American Falls fades from my life, I find myself vainly attempting to lock it's memory to a position of tenderness and beauty--backdropped by allergy ridden summers and iced over winters; of cleaning steamy french fry furnaces one hour, and frigid potato freezers the next.

14.01.2012[ read full story ]

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Eugenia Maximova
Kitchen stories

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I see the life as a patchwork, assembled of numerous unique, irregular and often controversial pieces of circumstances and choices. You can arrange what appears to be unpleasant at first glance into a beautiful composition. You can mix up pretty elements to create a piece of knick-k...

14.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Franck Olivas
Performing Forms

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Performing Forms is a collection of photographs and videos produced simultaneously by Franck Olivas as part of a cycle of “photo-choreographic” performances created in Spring 2011 in Monaco. Dancers and musicians were invited to improvise on themes before a variety of set pie...

11.02.2012[ read full story ]

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