We last saw Irène in a Parisian bar for the launch of one of her first issues. She called herself an ‘erotic fanzine’ but she moved too fast and couldn’t stand up straight. If there’s mystery for every thing and the mystery of everything is poetry, then Irène was ...

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Art is the moment we take note, the moment we stop to consider the surface and all that lies beneath. Art empowers us to think for ourselves, to embrace the possibility of layers of meaning and experience cast upon and emanating from the image itself. When set singly, as a print hung upon ...

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The Haitian LP Street gang is one of many gangs controlling the various slums found through out the capital Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Some gangs are more violent than others. The most hardcore control their turf using intimidation and violence with guns smuggled into Haiti via t...

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Sasha’s father made television commercial and taught her photography. She was making her own photographs when she was 14. 
At the age of 15, she was offered a hard cover monograph of Paul Strand (Aperture) and discovered formalism: “ that you could photograph part of a ...

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Visual Independence - a photo*graphic experience, was launched on January 23rd 2012 by Jans Bock-Schroeder. V.I. is a seasonal online publication with a weekly Blog (every Thursday) daily updated on its social media channels as well as a monthly newslet...

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Along the kilometers of spanish coast, emptiness fills the streets, waterparks, apartments, hotel complexes and even real cities. Decades of intense urban development in the name of the tourist industry have radically changed our landscape, to the exent of turning it into a big mass...

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PHotoEspaña, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, opens the call for entries for the Best Photography Book of the Year Award in the city of Alcalá. This award recognizes the year’s most outstanding photographic editorial work. The call is...

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The student art studios photographed by Leonora Hamill run counter to the strain of individualism permeating the contemporary art world. Hamill destroys the myth of the artist-hero working in isolation, returning to the essence of the artistic movements that have marked the his...

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With its exhibition Espacio de conflicto, the Centro de Fotografia in Montevideo, Uruguay, is inviting the public to discover a demanding discipline: performance photography. A series by the Brazilian photographer Fernanda Chemale will be on display at the Teatro Solis until Februar...

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At a time when workers face physical and psychological suffering, fear of the hierarchy and feelings of injustice, when the multinational companies, forced to make short-term gains, prove their inability to maintain sustainable economic development, worker cooperatives offe...

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