In memoriam

The deaths of Olivier Voisin and Luis Choy

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Do you remember? Last Friday, February 22, 2013, at the initiative of the association A Day Without News, photojournalists around the world paid tribute to Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik, killed one year ago in Syria. This same Friday, a year after their deaths, in a hospital ...

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Editorial & Business

The last Letter
from Olivier Voisin

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On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, the French photographer Olivier Voisin wrote a long email to an Italian journalist friend, where he described his reporting in Syria. The day after, Voisin was seriously wounded. On Sunday, it was announced that he died of his wounds in a Turkish ...

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Festival

Circulation(s) : Young European Photography

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Initiated in 2011 with the collective Fetart in 2011, the festival Circulation(s) aims to promote the young European photography and help the professional insertion of the photographers. This year again, the festival will take place at the Bagatelle park in Paris, until the...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Marion Hislen, President

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An interview with Marion Hislen, president of Fetart, the association behind Circulation(s). Interviewed by Juliette Deschodt.

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Circulation(s) 2013
François Cheval, Sponsor

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An interview with François Cheval, chief curator at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce (France) and sponsor of Circulation(s) 2013. Interviewed by Juliette Deschodt.

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Circulation(s) 2013 : The diary of Juliette Deschodt

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The third edition of the festival Circulation(s) opened this weekend in snowy Paris. Assocation Fetart president Marion Hislen pointed out, photography installations are more prevalent than ever before. Recent École des Gobelins graduate Thomas Martin has arrange...

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Circulation(s) 2013
by Molly Benn

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The cold, the wind and the snow didn't prevent Parisians from attending to the opening of the Circulation(s) festival to discover young photographic talents. This year, young photographers are mainly searching for their roots where they belong ,and what is their story. With 44 Eur...

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Circulation(s) 2013
by François Cheval

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It is quite convenient nowadays for ambitious young people to want to become a renowned photographer. For me, having visited museums, scoured galleries, having been subjected to too many readings of portfolios and having lost invaluable time in juries that reeked of cheating...

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Circulation(s) 2013: C. Ayesta & G. Bression

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There is a 1000 square miles no man’s land surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant. This dead zone is undoubtedly the most brutal and visible trace of the nuclear accident. More than 110,000 people had to pack their bags and leave ghost towns behind them. With little...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Sabine Koe

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Intimist and poetic, the “Barfuss” photography series questions relationships without false modesty in particular the moment when happiness seems to be self-sufficient. Sabine Koe freezes that moment when life seems pure and simple, when the dreamy love story vacillates between trus...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Valentina Vannicola

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Valentina Vannicola presents “Dante’s inferno”, a work that is inspired by the literary work composed and dramatized in real living pictures. The actors who agreed to pose for Valentina Vannicola are all non-professional models living in Tofia, her home town, in the north o...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Patrick Willocq

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“On the road from Bikoro to Bokonda” is a project born out of several trips made in about ten villages of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Through this series, Patrick Wilcocq dramatizes the everyday life of the villagers, in front of their cabins, in a setting that becomes dram...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Thomas Martin

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In "Faits Divers" [News in brief], the work of the artist consists in introducing anonymous people whose hidden secrets he reveals in order to give them a posthumous glory. These actions, unrespectable not to say criminal. In most of the cases, they are often tragic and violent fac...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Dominique Secher

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The series Bokassa, la chute d’un tyran (Bokassa, The Fall of a Tyrant) was taken in the Château de Hardricourt, the French home of the former emperor of the Central African Republic. These photographs communicate the radical otherness of places deprived of their meaning and fun...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Federica De Ruvo

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The self-portraits of Federica de Ruvo are melodramas that aim at catching the interest of the spectator, to provoke his own imagination. This series started after a love disappointment , the subject is about intimacy. The permanent presence of her face and the saturated color ...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Juuso Noronkoski

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Towards the sun looker” brings reality into play by offering a dual representation of life. The world of urban society confronts that of the great wild and solitary areas of the north. Through his photographic work, Juuso Noronkoski tries to decipher reality in order ...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Philippe Pétremant

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"He plays with the ordinary and the banal to make life come out, not the still life, which would mean accepting life and the presence of objects. Far beyond a simple representation, he dismantles the nature of reality. It is as if the artist had given still life a new twist...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Cristina de Middel

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In 1964, Zambia becomes independent and launches a space program that should have enabled Africans and the country to join in the achievements towards the conquest of space: to set foot on the moon. Edward Makuka, researcher in charge of the program had the responsibility of g...

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Circulation(s) 2013
SFR Young Talents

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This year, Vladimir Vasilev and Colin Delfosse are among the laureate of the SFR Young Talents. Here are their portfolios.

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Circulation(s) 2013
Maria Pleshkova

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The series she presents “Days of war: a pillow book” is a diary about waiting. “War and Waiting start with the same letter. I am not the mother of a soldier, neither am I the wife of a soldier. But I know what one feels when the beloved one goes to war”: her project is b...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Marie Gruel

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Flower for daddy” started in 2009 after the brutal death of her father. The whole family is then gathered in the living room around the body. The days that passed by seem so unreal. Beautiful flowers piled up around the coffin. So many tokens of love for this man, her belov...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Olivia Lavergne

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The “Jungles” series is an exploration of nature as raw material. Olivia Lavergne imagines and makes the territory hers. Her way of seeing things transforms nature which becomes a photographic painting. The choice of dense and luxuriant colors – ochre, green, blue – st...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Virginie Rebetez

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The approach to the “Packing” project makes its mark and follows a well-defined chronology. The artist photographs the clothes worn by people when they are dead; neatly folded then put in order, this clothes become exhibits though the medium of photography. This approach, made i...

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Klaus Pichler

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“Skeletons in the closet” is a long-term project started by the artist who questions the dark side of museums: that is their “backstage areas”, and in particular the warehouses, the basements and the storage rooms inaccessible to the public. This series of photographs originates fr...

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Circulation(s) 2013
Stan Guigui

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“Atras del muro” aims at glorifying those who are no longer regarded as human beings but as the waste of society: to pay a tribute to the men on the street, to re-humanize them in the eye of the people, to highlight their personalities through crazy styles. Usually quite wild, the Ne...

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