For the past several years, I have been walking our family dog at a park near our home. There's a baseball field there which has been in use for, as far as I can tell, at least 80 years. While on these walks I'd frequently find, lying right on the field or at the far edges of the park, los...

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Europe's currency union brought abrupt prosperity to it's poorest member, Greece. But continent's financial crisis has hit the hardest here. The nation's wealthy swiftly exported their money at the first sign of financial trouble, leaving ordinary Greeks to carry the full ...

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By applying Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, I deduce what the space/place is like where utopia and the fantastic acquire material substance. The mirror is both a utopia and a heterotopia. The image/idol in the mirror is our utopia, while the mirror itself is heterotopia. In this ...

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The second opening of Blue are at the moment presented in Krakow’s Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology. In September 2012 the exhibition was premiered in September 2012 at DAP Gallery in Warsaw, the selection of the photographs exhibited in Krakow is different. H...

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When asked about what I do when I make a photograph, my first thought is that I don’t work conceptually. In other words, I don’t have an idea or concept which I am trying to illustrate, investigate, or portray. Having been a conceptual artist earlier in my life, I discovered this approach to be...

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The first photograph of mine was taken on a July afternoon, as my parents posed with their newly-born child. I am observed snuggling on my mother’s arms wrapped in a pink towel, as the young couple shyly posed for their first snapshot with me. No one can make out whether I am ma...

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The expression “white road” is a way to wish someone “bon voyage” in Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek. These words are written on road signs at the edges of Asian towns, wishing travelers good luck as they leave civilization to enter the desert lands of the steppe. From 1998 to 2005, the American pho...

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The "Jet Airliner" project was taken over a period of several months between early 2009 and late 2011 at Maho Beach on the Dutch/French island of St. Maarten / St. Martin in the Caribbean Sea. Maho Beach is directly adjacent to the relatively short runway (2,300m) of the Princess...

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I was born and bred in Wasmuel, a small, working class village in Belgium. I grew up to the sound of the hustle and bustle of my mother’s hair salon situated in the entrance of our family home. “Coiffure Nanda” is the story of the women who have come to my mother every week since she f...

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Since Froyd's philosophy a man has been encouraged to look more into himself, to explore his deepest motivations. Repressed emotions keep their efficiency, they influence our conscious life in many hidden ways.
The idea with which I started my work is based on recollecting memorie...

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In some of these pictures the Sun is absent, in others there is too much of it. And still in others there was not enough Sun and the author had to add some light artificially. The author reacted on amount of illumination, maybe even on amount of warmth received from the Sun. The Sun is con...

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At the age of 78, Douglas Kirkland is embarking on his grandest publishing project to date, a magnum opus that spans his illustrious career. With an archive more than a one million photographs, he is charged with the responsibility of creating the definitive tome of his life’s w...

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