Exhibition

New York: David Seymour & Roman Vishniac

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On the occasion of the immense David ‘Chim’ Seymour and Roman Vishniac exhibition at the International Center for Photography, the Howard Greenberg Gallery is presenting a selection of their work. The show features Chim's famous images of children affected by war,; the task w...

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Book

Sharon Harper:
From Above and Below

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As the title of this book suggests, the American photographer Sharon Harper likes different points of view. But they are all related to one space: the sky. It is the center of her photographs, serving either as subject or as vantage point. Whether she's looking...

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Magazine

Spain: New Issue
Matador O Magazine

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One of the most interesting artists of the moment and one of the most influential figures in the art world come together to curate this new issue Matador O dedicated to Iceland, where geology and climate are extremely important to reflect on the climate both in its physi...

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Portfolio

Karen Paulina Biswell: Hotel Dorantes

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For years, the indigenous communities in Colombia have been living in the middle of a conflict . "Las guerillas " as the Indians call them, have tortured and killed hundreds of indigenous throughout Colombia in an attempt to take their land. 
This has lead to hundreds of them lea...

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Exhibition

Linnaeus Tripe:
Views of Burma

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An exhibition of the earliest photographs of Upper Burma, by Linnaeus Tripe, is on view at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs. Linnaeus Tripe: Views of Burma presents more than 20 salt prints from waxed paper negatives made in 1855. This will be the first tim...

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Exhibition

Melbourne: Steven Rhall
Kulin Project

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Aboriginal photographer Steven Rhall uses photography to investigate contemporary and historical themes of Aboriginal culture and its ties to the land in his collection Kulin Project now on show in Melbourne. Kulin is a common Aboriginal word for human being an...

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Portfolio

Constanze Flamme: Troubled Water

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The series Troubled Water was photographed during a trip to Louisiana in 2011 and continued in 2012 with a focus on the loss of land in the coastal region of Louisiana. 
One year after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon I sought out evidence of the aftermath of the Oil Sp...

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Exhibition

Tyler Udall, la photo comme un journal

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The Little Black Gallery presents Tyler Udall's work. As an emerging photographer Tyler Udall has already made a big impact in American photography. In his two short years as a photographer he has shot for several fashion and art magazines and published a book ...

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Book

Luigi Ghirri
Setting Complexity Free

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For Luigi Ghirri, photography is anything but a mold of conformity. Through his simple and avant-garde photographs, Ghirri presents the world in all its complexity while simultaneously making it clearer. His book Kodachrome, reissued this year by Mack, is a refl...

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Festival

Bangkok: Rangsit Photo Festival 2013

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For the first time since its establishment in 1990, Rangsit University – a high ranked private educational institution in Patum Thani, Bangkok, focused mainly on science, technology, design and management – has organized a festival dedicated to photography: the Rangsit Photo Fe...

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Portfolio

Javier Izquierdo: Magaluf, Sex Alcohol and sun

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The project I present is called "Magaluf: Sex, Alcohol and sun". Magaluf is a tourist town located 17km from the capital Palma de Mallorca (Spain). Every summer thousands of British come looking for sex, partying, drinking, sunbathing and relaxing.

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Portfolio

Matilde Gattoni:
The Swallows of Syria

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Somaya left Homs after finding the corpse of her tortured son in a sewage ditch; Zaynab escaped with her family when she discovered that Syrian soldiers had kidnapped, raped and killed three of her schoolmates; Aziza fled after both her husband and sister-in-law were killed by...

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Exhibition

Berkeley: Ken Schles
Invisible City

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We know a place best through the intimacies of contact: through direct and meaningful encounters with people situated in the everyday; through the tactile surfaces of walls and flesh and streets—and through the mythos that we distill from each and every one of those encounters. Th...

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