It’s hard to tell if the deeply sad faces of the clowns in these pictures are really their own, or simply the reflection of photographer Jill Freedman. There’s no doubt that the american artist, whose work remains somewhat neglected, photographed them with a sense of empa...

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Late last year, during a particularly bad day of fighting between the Free Syrian Army and the Assad regime, a band of rebels took refuge in the basement of an abandoned factory building in Aleppo. They had just lost two men and were in desperate need of more supplies and more ...

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A picturesque place in the morning, the Siem Reap river banks become home to a disparate mix of people after dusk. Life lurks in shadows there. Little dramas played out in eerie corners under darkening trees. The body seeks and finds instant solace . People come, people go, much like the river ...

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Lumas (Paris) is paying tribute to feminine sensuality with the exhibition Sex in the City and the work of nine photographers, including Michel Comte, Formento & Formento, Andreas Kock, Jens Nagels and Jacques Olivar. Art is often only fascinating and unexpected when the setting cont...

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Starting February 18, the gallery Lumière des Roses will present an exhibition entitled La Bretagne de Paul Géniaux.Paul Géniaux, a photographer from Rennes who was born in 1873 and died sometime after 1930, is known for his pictures of artisans and merchants. Beginning in...

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An independent business is a small family owned business which provides a livelihood to the owner and his/her family. These places are full of inventiveness and hard work, but unfortunately due to our current industrialization pressures, these businesses face difficult times to s...

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For the past 17 years, the Uruguayan photojournalist Quique Kierszenbaum has photographed the daily life, history and religions in Jerusalem. In the exhibition Jerusalén, 3 historias, on view at the Centro de Fotografia in Montevideo, Kierszenbaum documents the cit...

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In Vrindavan, India, one of Hinduism's holiest cities, Widows from across the country come to live out the rest of their lives in convent like ashrams, where they spend their time singing hymns to Krishna, the god of love. 
Some come here voluntarily, seeking solace in religion wh...

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In 1999, I moved to Chicago from Shanghai, China, for my job as an engineer. Inspired by Chicago’s vitality and power and fascinated by the new culture, I had a strong urge to express my feelings about this great city. Chicago is America. I started to use my lifelong passion—photogra...

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This series of staged photographs shows romantic couples of all ages kissing and loving each other in unlikely and gloomy settings. Couples, a symbol of love, add a touch of hope to their forbidding surroundings, which symbolize the uncertain and unsettling present. Christophe Audebe...

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The images refer to the unique moment when the boundaries between dream, reality, men and animals disappear and reappear in the form of a close cohabitation transforming vital energy into creative tension.

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La Virreina Image Centre is putting on the first major exhibition dedicated entirely to Alberto García-Alix in Barcelona. García-Alix (León, Spain, 1956) is one of the leading figures in contemporary international photography. Alberto García-Alix’s photographic, a...

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