Exhibition

Isabelle Chapuis
Barbapapa

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The most beautiful works are those made with the least material.” Gustave Flaubert is probably turning in his grave. Since the beginning of her career, the French artist Isabelle Chapuis has worked with the same materials: cotton, fine fabrics, aqueous gels and ...

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Portfolio

Victoria Crayhon
Romance from the Road

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This project uses photography to document my text interventions on roadside marquee signs. The work addresses the effect of media and technology on human desire. I place phrases on movie and motel marquee signs, many of which I find through research but also in the course of m...

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Portfolio

Eric Bouvet
Sexe, Love...

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Four years ago, I had trouble finding funding for the stories I wanted to shoot abroad, so I looked for a French story to keep production costs low. Curious by nature, and a journalist by profession, I immersed myself in the world of sex, a world whose diversity I knew little about. I too...

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Portfolio

Eric Bouvet
and Peace

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I worked a lot in 2011. The highlights were on Libya, first on the eastern front heading towards Benghazi, and later in Tripoli during the attack of Gaddafi’s barracks. It was very dangerous. Little of my work appeared internationally. When Tim and Rémy died... my body, my mind refused to acce...

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Exhibition

Serkan Taycan
Shell

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This series tells the story of rural exodus, an epic tale that is at once personal and universal. Having explored his native Anatolia in the series Homeland, Serkan Taycan turned his focus on the outskirts of Istanbul, where nature is on a collision course with urban expansion. The ruins trace ...

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Book

Twenty Master Photographers

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In bookstores since November, this work published by Flammarion covers two centuries of photographic history. From the pioneers and early fashion photographers to the most famous documentary images, nearly everything you would expect to find is there. Organized chronologically, the book o...

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Portfolio

Gohar Dashti
Volcano of Iran

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In the past thousands years, there hasn’t been a volcano erupting in our country. But we mustn’t forget the truth ,the country of Iran in a past not so far away (in terms of geology), has put behind many volcanic activities, the evidence of which is hundreds of inactive and semi-active ...

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Portfolio

Alexandre Dupeyron
Urban Monads

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Seeing images from the inside, piercing substance, delving to the confines of the human mind, like a sleepwalker, his lens aiming a fixed point, Alexandre Dupeyron balances with the movement. From West to East, he roams the world. His photography reconnects us to an ...

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Portfolio

Oliver Weber
Social Life at Beach

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"Oliver Weber's new and evolving series Social Life at Beach is a wonderful documentary about the touristic life on the Spanish Canary Islands . Every year hundreds of thousands of tourists, mostly from Germany, England and Russia, take over the Canary Is...

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Exhibition

Jean-Christian Bourcart
Camden

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Absurd, all I did was search the web for the most dangerous city in the USA. I wanted to find that strange energy given off by places where rules and social constraints have been abolished or weakened. A sense of freedom mixed with the excitement of danger. Also I wanted to understand...

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Book

Jamel Shabazz
Brooklyn Public Library

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The Brooklyn Central Library stands proudly at Grand Army Plaza, firmly set in the Northwest corner of Prospect Park, shining bright with gold inlays upon its façade, recalling nothing so much as Egyptian hieroglyphics. Inside the library, the ceiling soars high above, opening ...

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