Awards

Alessio Romenzi:
Prix Lucas Dolega 2013

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For its second edition, the Prix Lucas Dolega was awarded on Friday, January 18, at the Hôtel de Ville de Paris, to the Italian photographer Alessio Romenzi for his work in Syria. “In 2012, I spent about six months in Syria over more than a h...

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Festival

London Art Fair 2013:
Anna-Maria Pfab

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On January 16th 2013 the London Art Fair opened its doors to the public for the 25th year in its usual location, the Business Design Centre in Upper Street. The majority of the exhibitors are galleries from the UK, including some of the best of London’s west-...

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Festival

Dhaka, Bangladesh: Chobi Mela 2013

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Chobi Mela, the first festival of photography in Asia, is one of the most exciting ventures that Drik has initiated. The first Chobi Mela – International Festival of Photography was held Dec.1999-January 2000. It is the most demographically inclusive photo festival in the world and ...

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Book

Stefan Vanthuyne:
A family journey

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Remember the White Horses opens with an image of a road running through woodland on a summer’s day. A journey begins. But this is no classic road trip. Instead, the journey is a familiar one, both in the sense of a family outing and a metaphoric journey. The images – mono...

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Exhibition

Linda Troeller:
Selfportraits

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In this group exhibition, the gallery Ververs d’Amsterdam has included the latest work of the photographer Linda Troeller. A project of “self-representation” spanning more than 40 years, with self-portraits and portraits taken for other reasons throughout her life. Usi...

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Exhibition

Londres: Domingo Milella
Inventaire topographique

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The photographs of Domingo Milella have the rigor of topographical works. Each landscape is chosen for an attribute that makes it a type, a piece of historical evidence documenting the process of domestic development. In each image, the different times coexist and me...

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Exhibition

Toulouse, Lars Tunbjörk: 3 séries photos

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Le Château d’Eau de Toulouse is presenting until March 17th three series of photographs by the celebrated Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk, a member of the Agence Vu’. I love Böras is composed of images selected from a larger work mainly produced...

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Magazine

Ragazine.cc: Volume 9
Une communauté photo

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Ragazine.cc is an online magazine on art, information and entertainment. Taking its name from an underground publication produced in the ‘70s by a group of friends in Columbus, Ohio, I began the electronic version in 2004 as a way to share the art, photogr...

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Portfolio

Brian Finke:
LSU football team

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The LSU football team, also known as the Fighting Tigers, are the center of much student social life. As is the case with most state universities, football is absolutely huge, and the games serve to bring together the entire campus. Brian Finke’s bright, bold, graphi...

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Book

Miss Rosen
Book Review #49

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The feminine ideal: she is an industry unto herself, a vision of beauty held above all, as a thing to aspire towards, or to have and to hold. She exists because we need her to be, a vision of power or submission, whatever the frame may be. She is both muse and mistress, demanding our atten...

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Portfolio

Imanol Villota:
The last miners

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At the end of June of 2011 my paternal grandfather died, the last one of a miners’ saga. His life, and some others life, represents the history of a whole region, an architecture of emotions and signals. Up to the 1960’s the coal and anthracite catchment areas were the main resource ...

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Exhibition

Pierre-Jean Amar: La nature, le corps et l'ombre

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Exhibitions, publications, films and conferences are on the program of Pierre-Jean Amar this season. Nature. Body. Shadow. These three words are an attempt to summarize fifty years of work in photography. To escape the snares of his oppressive...

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Portfolio

Giorgi Shengelia:
Great Hall

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This documentary project “great hall” was made in Tbilisi (Georgia) in july 2012. This project is full of portraits of the little gymnast , it is also about the practice of the adults. Because of the little interest of young Georgians for the sport, this is the only gym wher...

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