The best images of the inauguration have not been published. They probably never will be. In fact very often, for any type of event, be it sports, politics, entertainment or nature, you might never see the best images. why ? Because the nature of today's image distribution ( and its ...

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Ah, the agony of the blank page... Have no fear, I don’t consider myself a writer. Before I write, I have to choose a photo, a news story... Dilemmas, dilemmas... I have to comment on photos that appear increasingly superfluous to me, except... when a little prince takes ov...

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A feeling between belly and chest. it strikes the shoulders. the shoulders make the arms follow . I observe my hands, how they move around me, my belly, how it wants to touch my back. Hips, hands pressure my skin. I am there. I try to find out, what I am made of bones, muscles, flesh,and sk...

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The Republic of Niger, the largest nation in West Africa, ranked 186 of 187 on the United Nations’ Human Development Index for 2011. With over 80 percent of its land covered by the Sahara desert, the country’s predominantly Islamic population of 15 million is mostly clustered in the far so...

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Davos is a five-hour drive from Geneva. I live in a small country, but some places seem so far away as to be almost unreachable. January 2012. I hadn’t set foot in Davos for fifteen years, and here I was, an official photographer for the World Economic Forum, one of the most newsworthy p...

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To mark the first season of Kevin O’Hare as the new director of The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, in conjunction with the Hospital Club, showcases an astonishing series of photographs by Rick Guest of the dancers and choreographers who will be bringing O’Hare’...

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Photographer Michel Nafziger envisions the female nude as a revelation. A revelation of the form and of raw emotion, momentary and spontaneous, yet captured cautiously through prolonged exposure. The body’s graceful movement - echoing the refined classicism of Venus and t...

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The Museo Archivo de la Fotografia (MAF) in Mexico City, in partnership with the country’s Secretary of Culture, is currently presenting the exhibition El lago asfaltado (The Asphalted Lake), a reference to the lake covered by the construction of the city. Nearly one hundred photographs hav...

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Christiane Seiffert is a Berlin artist and the first and most obvious thing to say about her work is that it’s really funny. And a lot more. Seiffert works in the tradition of living images and it’s just herself - with the help of a surprisingly versatile stock of accessories - impersonati...

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Unknown Spring is a hybrid of digital storytelling: it has the URL of a website, the structure of a book with chapters, the interactivity of a web platform, and features text, audio, video, photos. Users can virtually walk through the city of Yuriage, north of Tokyo, which was devastated ...

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This week, Joel Meyerowitz, Martial Cherrier, Diana Michener and a dozen other photographs selected for the tenth anniversary of the Images Magazine had their work on display at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. The Meyerowitz retrospective offers not only an important pi...

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Since 1991, the Alexia Foundation has supported politically committed documentary photography, awarding grants to students,and professionals . The photographers they supported have become renowned for their work. The year of its inception, the Foundation awarded Darc...

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The European Publishers Award for Photography (EPAP), created by the publishers Actes Sud (France), Blume (Spain), Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK), Kehrer Verlag (The European Publishers Award for Photography (EPAP), created by the publishers Actes Sud (France)...

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