Nostalgia shows us Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii and the Russia of Nicholas II through the eyes of a wealthy amateur photographer. Thanks to him, readers will be able to discover the Russian Empire under the reign of its last tsar. This is an exceptio...

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The Alexia Foundation has announced the winners of its 2013 grants. A sharp and diverse selection. The professional grant of $15,000 was awarded to Bangladeshi photographer Abir Abdullah for his work on the deadly fires devastating Dhak...

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Abir Abdullah has worked on the endless fires that devastate Dhaka and its population. Safety measure are so inadequate that flames engulf the city with terrifying speed. The working class is the most affected, either in the factories where they work for substandard pa...

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This reportage work of Sara Naomi Lewkowicz is a combination of chance and journalistic conviction. Planning to cover the return of former inmates to society, she entered the lives of Shane and Maggie just as he was released from prison. At first she cap...

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I am interested by people and, regardless of their moment in life that I witness , the ultimate form of my reflections is thru photographies. I want them to express my opinions, and my attitude to the topics I cover. My dream is for my photographs to be a universal language with a stimula...

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On the Rue Cambon, Chanel No. 5 was sprayed every morning when the doors opened. It was the aroma of a boudoir, of love. And of a hive: at Chanel, every bee worked in the service of the queen. The saleswomen wore black, and the workers and the models between fittings wore white overalls....

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I am an independent photographer and I live in Triest (Italy). 
I am inspired by memories of the past, by love, details, woman, nature, silence of the wood, magic, by a rainy day, music and by everything I have collected in my life which has somehow influence my sensibility. The camera is a...

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New Jersey native Peter Downsbrough is a major figure of the conceptual art world. He now lives in Brussels. Downsbrough began by studying architecture but soon turned his attention to sculpture. This transition represented his first change of medium. He th...

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The Argentine gallery Studio 488 will present until March 22 the exhibition Lila, the story of a little girl told by the photographer Maximiliano Matayoshi. We see Lila’s life as a little girl, as she plays, studies and pedals her bike down dirt roads. We discover her private liv...

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March 11, 2011. An earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scales strikes Japan. A tsunami follows, causing critical damage to the nuclear power plant of Fukushima. The buildings are left in ruins, the infrastructure crumbling, the population was displaced. That was two years...

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New London multimedia and photography festival, Night Contact, is launched. Established to bring together and display exciting and innovative photographic works that engage with other media, Night Contact will be a one night event in Dalston, East London taking place in Sep...

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A common misconception of a watershed is that it’s all about the water. While water does play a large part, the land plays an even larger role by directing the water to a common point, such as a river or ocean. Thus human impact on the land directly affects the water that runs over it....

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