I first saw photographer John Schabel’s images in 1997 when he brought a very large box of incredibly beautiful prints for Twin Palms publisher Jack Woody to view. Now more than 15 years later, Twin Palms is publishing Schabel’s “Passengers,” a fascinating series depicti...

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The Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, presents the exhibit Fashion. A century of extraordinary photography from the Condé Nast archives. This exhibit, organized by the Fondazione Forma and curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, brings together a selection of images from Condé...

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I photograph people I find elegant. Their elegance has nothing to do with fashion. Combining industrial clothing with traditional tribal elements (jewelry, scarification), these people exude simple grace. What I feel in these encounters is an awareness of being. They li...

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Given a one-way ticket from Chicago to Melbourne in 1961, photographer Maggie Diaz arrived on the docks with just five bucks in her pocket ready to start a new life in a new land. “I remember asking myself at the time, Jesus what have I done?” she laughs her voice still ...

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I tried to capture the beauty of both the human body's figure and its motion. 
The figure in the image, which is formed into something similar to a sculpture, is created by combining 10,000 individual photographs of a dancer. By putting together uninterrupted individual moments, the resulting...

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Who's a photographer ? This question gets asked a lot these days. It used to be easy to answer : a photographer was one who had his work published. Today, this no longer separates the “real” photographers from the snappers, the sunday photographers. Everyone gets published everywhere...

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Tada Hengsapkul (1987) is a Bangkok-based artist and photographer who uses perfomance and photography to create action, examine emotions – both private and public, and then to provoke reactions, not only from the Thai audience – he has already exhibited in France, USA and Ch...

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My series is called Y. That’s the penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, but it’s also the ancient symbol for a crossroads. The characters in my staged photographs also find themselves at a crossroads. This decisive moment of crisis is close to the catharsis we know from th...

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I didn’t set out to make portraits, urban landscapes, or even street photographs. 
Looking back over the work, I see evidence of myself reflected in these images. 
A search for self was evidently taking place. When I observe how I framed the images through windows, and with lenses...

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We received these four photographs by Ellen Von Unwerth too late last friday in part of Collectible III Exhibition organized by Arnaud Adida. They are charming and don't deserve to be forgotten.

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André Mérian has roots in the south of France, but in recent years he has been attracted northward. After exploring the Netherlands, he traveled through Brittany, interrogating the land the way the American “New Topographic” photographers did two or three de...

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A documentary by the photographer Miquel Dewever-Plana and Isabelle Fougère, produced by Arte, Upian and the Agence VU, was given the first prize at World Press Photo Multimedia Contest in the category Interactive Documentary, for their striking portrait of the young Alma. This was t...

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“Timbuktu is outraged! Timbuktu is broken! Timbuktu has been martyred! But Timbuktu has been liberated! Liberated by itself, by its own people, with the help of the French army.” (Original text slightly modified) 
It’s a happy beginning to the week. It’s good to see the ha...

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In February, 2013, sixty years after its founding, Aperture Foundation will relaunch its flagship publication Aperture, one of the world's leading photography magazines. Conceived by Executive Director Chris Boot, and editors Michael F...

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