After Raymond Depardon, Stanley Greene and Marc Riboud, the fourth Prix International Planète Albert Kahn (PIPAK) was awarded to photographer Marie-Laure de Decker. The award was handed over on February 21, 2013, by Visa pour l’Image festival founder and ...

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Photographer and subject have a distinct relationship that is based on the sharing of ideas in mutual exploration of that which does not yet exist until the two come together to bring forth the work, the image that holds the wall or rests, nestled inside the book. The photograph is the sp...

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Melancholic black-and-white visions of a timeless Beijing await viewers at the Hua Gallery in London until March 12, 2013. Gallery director Shanyan Koder is presenting Xu Yong Retrospective Through the Hutongs, featuring pictures taken by Chinese photographer Xu...

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Can we, and should we, trust photography? Are we seeking photography as a proof of reality or to feel an experience? The recent announcement of the World Press winners sparked yet another controversy over altered images. The winning image, it seems, has been tampered with via Photosh...

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It’s been weeks since I’ve said anything treacherous or embittered and laid out my jealous mind for all to see. That’s over now. The results of the World Press Photo Awards have given me cause to speak. Having closely followed press photography over the past year, I’m indig...

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Till Human Voices Wake Us takes its title from a line in T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, a poem about drowning in memories. It is a meditation on the joy of being in the water, and how that joy contrasts with the overwhelming power of the ocean. W...

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In Turkey, when economic boom and newfound international appeal came without warning, the country was faced with the sudden challenge of adapting its architectural and social structures.George Georgiou traveled through Turkey from west to east over the past five...

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This series by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen was shot in the working-class English neighborhood of Byker, in Newcastle upon Tyne. Taken in the 1970s when the photographer herself lived there, these photographs show what the neighborhood w...

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The special issues of the “Documents” collection by National Geographic (France), launched in 2012, each offer a portrait of a country as seen through the archives of the National Geographic Society. After a first issue on Algeria, the latest issue is on the American...

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You’ve spent so much time choosing the perfect profile picture, one that somehow manages to embody your complex personality in a single image. It needs to be on par with the work of the great masters: Van Gogh’s Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and your profile picture, goi...

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This month, a photograph by Robin Hammond has been selected for the year’s second poster campaign organized by the Association Inimaginable*. Recently awarded the FotoEvidence Book Award for his series Condemned, Hammond became interested in the mistreatment of the mentally ill in ...

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Zhang Xiao is one of the new talent of the Chinese photography and his best known and famous work is “Coastline” among others, it was awarded at the Prix HSBC Pour La Photographie in 2011. I had an interview with Xiao last year about “Coastline” and that time we also talked about th...

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