Senior prom is a near mandatory ritual for American teenagers. Prom, the latest work by the photographer Mary Ellen Mark, celebrates this event, long associated with losing one’s virginity. From 2006 to 2009, Mark visited thirteen private and public US schoo...

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The association Ouvrir Les Yeux supports medical research for diseases that affect the optic nerve. More than 120 photographers have joined forces to help their cause. An auction will be held on July 1 in Le Touquet in the north of France. Among the photographers whose wor...

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For the third year in a row, the PMU is inviting photographers to illustrate the French world of games and gambling. In 2010, the job was given to Malik Nejmi and in 2011 to Mohamed Bourouissa . 
In 2012, PMU partnered with the Paris gallery Le BAL to launch a call for applications wi...

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I am a Belgian photographer. My photographic alias is Irving S.T. Garp in reference to John Irving’s novel The World According to Garp. My photos are recognized by their original and offbeat staging. My models are anyone and everyone. Photography is a narcissistic art. If the photog...

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The Centre national de l’audiovisuel de Dudelange (CNA) is opening a new photographic space. On Septemer 29, 2012, the CAN will inaugurate Waassertuerm and Pomhouse, two exhibition spaces in a most unusual location – a water tower (Waassertuerm) and a pump house (Pomhouse) – a...

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The 12th edition of Boutographies, a festival celebrating the work of young European photographers, opened on June 9 in Montpellier in the south of France. The program includes 12 photography exhibitions and 17 projections in the Pavillon Populaire in the heart of the Boutonnet dis...

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Photographer Joëlle Dollé draws our attention to vegetables and our link to nature through a hundred pictures of well known and unknown personalities, all holding a vegetable in their hands. Each photograph comes with a short text detailing the history of the pictured vegetables.

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In 2005, « Hôtels Paris Rive Gauche » initiated the project « Photo d'Hôtel, Photo d'Auteur » to support contemporary photography. The concept is simple: each month a young photographer spends a night in one of the Hôtels Paris Rive Gauche to take a picture and prepares a text abou...

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South Africa is a country with a complicated past. Colonization, war and racial segregation have all left their mark. Remember that the first free elections following apartheid were held as recently as 1994. For its third exhibition, the young KijK Galerie, dedicated to S...

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In To know a veil, Hedy Ritterman combines portraiture with the appropriation of public commercial images and public art works, presenting them in oppositional contexts, allowing new interpretations and insights into the nature of photography. In our contemporary world the personal photograp...

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The 9th issue of FotoIndex Magazine devoted to contemporary Portuguese photography is now available! 
  
This special issue features projects by leading Portuguese photographers: Alberto Monteiro "Sea And People", Paulo Alegria "Romeiros", Luis Duarte "Vaca Das Cordas", Sofia Qu...

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