Until now, we mainly identified Chim with a few famous photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War, rediscovered with those his companions Robert Capa and Gerda Taro in the Mexican Suitcase. The most famous among them: a woma...

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Chim was a cofounder of Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and George Rodger. In the Spring of 1948,UNICEF hired him as a consultant to report on UNICEF's work bringing food, shelter and vaccines to some of the 13 million children victim...

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My name is Karine Baptiste. After years of practicing amateur photography amateur during my travels, I decided to take a sabbatical and dedicate myself to my passion. I currently live in NY and I attend the ICP program. 
This series Getting Out, is an attempt t...

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On January 14, 2013, a New York court judged in favor of the Haitian photographer Daniel Morel in a case against the Agence France Presse, who posted on Twitter, without Morel’s consent, a photograph he took during the 2010 earthquakes.

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Since 2009, when he wasn’t out covering current events, Mathias Depardon traveled the roads of Europe, from the north of France to the west of Greece, following Afghan immigrants on their path to freedom. Chance encounters guide this modest documentary, filled with photographs li...

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A beautiful exhibition called Dans l'atelier du photographe will be on display at the Musée Bourdelle in Paris until February 10. With 54 works each illustrating a turning point in the history of photography, the photographers invite us into their studios to share their sec...

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The project Expofoto, created in 2005 by the Centre Culturel Oi Futuro, is presenting the work of the photographer Gustavo Gomes. Photographs from the series Por Ruas Distantes (Through Faraway Streets) will be on view until March 24 on the 8th floor of the Centre Flamengo de Rio d...

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Same venue. A generous group of galleries reconvened this past weekend, January 17 - 21 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for the 21st annual PhotoLA print fair. Stephen Cohen, PhotoLA's founder, was in good form and seemed happy with the turnout and the exhibitions. The ope...

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It's hard to say if there were detectible new currents on show this year - there was a surprising number of contemporary female nudes evident in many of the exhibitor's spaces but in terms of one emerging star of the program, none surfaced. Ben Nixon, a young photographer working...

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As recent events demonstrate, Israel and its surrounding territories have been an area of contention and dispute since the country’s establishment in 1948. In this timely and highly relevant exhibition, Yaakov Israel takes us on a geographical and metaphoric...

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A few months ago, we met Pierre Bessard in his home in Paris. We had come to produce a portrait, in both words and images, of this creative and ambitious man. A collector of beautiful things, this “young publisher” (as he likes to call himself) is bright-eyed and br...

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An exhibition at the International Center of Photography traces the career and work of Roman Vishniac, a photographer who documented the Jewish communities of Europe for nearly forty years. A few of the images, including one of a curly-haired child lying on a makeshift bed...

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Marion Gronier, 36, is a young Parisian photographer. We covered her work on child beauty pageants in the early days of Le Journal. Today, Gronier has just concluded her residency with the Musée Nicéphore Niépce de Chalon-sur-Saône in partnership with BMW. Like the ph...

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Hasted Kraeutler presents Planetfall, an exhibition of photographs by Michael Benson. Michael creates intensely detailed views of the solar system, by collecting and composing images he finds by mining the vast archives of raw image data from robotic spaceflight. P...

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