The Hasselblad Foundation, established in 1979 by the Dr. Victor Hasselblad and his wife Erna, gives each year an International Award in Photography for the sum of SEK 1,000,000 (approximately EUR 110,000).

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A week after its opening, the Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier has welcomed nearly 9,000 visitors. So far, the 13th edition of the festival has been a great success. Organized by the association Grain d’Image, under the direction of Christian Maccotta, the Festival des Bo...

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The project Reprises is a photographic documentary and autobiographical work . It begins with the voyage my great-grandparents took from Italy, where they were born, to Argentina. My idea was to follow the traces of their immigration, to reconstruct, through images,...

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Moving a capital city is an important decision. In 1998, Kazakhstan unveiled its new capital and Almaty lost its status to Astana, located 1300 kilometers up North. As the world’s most recent capital city after Pyinmana (Myanmar), Astana is also the symbol of a new start, a u...

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“Because of their homosexuality, these young people have been disowned by their families. Living in the streets, marginalized, the threat of danger and insecurity is constant. Not wishing to simply document or ‘report’ on their situation—how can an outsider hope to understand ...

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The Trebevic used to be a powerful symbol of Sarajevo: considered a sacred mountain since the times of ancient Slavs, Trebević was declared a national park by Marshall Tito’s government. So close to the city, but at the same time so green and wild, during the second half o...

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‘The Girl Got Balls’ is a portrait series of Ladyboys (transgender men) in Thailand who come from all social classes and ages. Their existence in total contrast to the often uptight and prude way we are taught in the western world, where being transgender is almost a ...

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The amount of unnecessary waste we throw away has always impressed me. But beyond its abundance, I have sought to explore the disappearance of things. For this series, I documented everything I threw away over the course of a week. In our society, there is little room for what...

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Glendarragh, the valley of oaks. This is where, 30km south of Dublin, I went in search of my roots. My Irish grandmother, who died in 1999, lived here for a few years before emigrating to Switzerland. Through photography, I tried to immerse myself in her story. In rural Ireland, th...

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Paris, Gare de Lyon. « Cœur de Femmes » is a series about wandering women in Paris. Thanks to the eponymous association , I was able to approach and share the lives of these women for almost a year. It was estimated in 2003 that they represented 17% of homeless...

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Finland is being honored until April 6 at New York’s Scandinavia House, which is exhibiting the work of nine photograhers from the Helsinki School. Born in the mid-1990s, the Helsinki School encompasses to photographers who graduated from, or who were somehow involved with, Aalto Univer...

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I started photographing when I was 14 years old - now I am 40. During the first years, I photographed around the house, the fields, and the forest. At the beginning, it was a certain light or weather condition that inspired me and made me eager to go out. Since then , I have mov...

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Following in the tradition of romantic landscape painting, Kalle Kataila thematizes man, quiescent and motionles, tarying before nature’s grandiose scenery. In more recent works, Kataila not only finds his atmospheric landscapes at spectacular or exotic sites, but also in urban loc...

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Several years ago, an old black dress made of velvet caught my attention in a second-hand shop. I examined the garment carefully. There was no label. The style of the dress was from the twenties. The seams revealed the dress was handmade. The owner of the shop told me that ...

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My material is light. The work focuses on energy rather than matter. My work is about the process as much as about the result. My process combines systems of calculation and change. I find my inspiration in mathematics and geometry; symmetry and chaos, both imagined and found in natur...

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As a child I often looked at the stars. Against the dark there were all those bright blinking lights . As minutes went by more stars became visible, some smaller, some larger. I was overwhelmed by the simplicity of that beauty. But I still have the same question in my head. Do the...

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