An architect by training, I am deeply inspired by the kind of “non-pedigreed” architecture explored by Bernard Rudofsky. After working extensively in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, I live in Paris, where I follow the daily lives of independent prostitutes working in a park on the...

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The photographs of Margaret Watkins are like the choruses of a love song. They are delicate like rare flowers one refrains from picking; the impulse to touch them, or to possess them, would damage their beauty. Better to keep a distance and enjoy the simple p...

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Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...

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In recent years, a kaleidoscopic net of huge billboards has enveloped the commercial hubs of New York City. The branding of the cityscape has become so ubiquitous, that the colorful, monumental advertisements, looming over the narrow streets, seem to go virtually unnoticed by the passersby. ...

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The submissions for the Delhi Photo Festival 2013 opened on Monday, March 4, 2013 and will close on April 20, 2013. The theme for the Festival is "Grace" and the organization is looking for bodies of work which interpret it in diverse and creative ways....

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“Art is never finished, only abandoned,” Leonardo Da Vinci said and there is no greater proof of this than the creation of the book itself. By virtue of being print and bound, of being run off thousands of copies at a clip, the book appears to be an object that reaches complet...

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Several series by Fréderic Delangle focus on India, a country he visits regularly. In the photo series Ahmedabad (2006), Microshop (2010-2012), Harmonieux Chaos (2012) and Maisons Sandwich (2012), on display as part of the exhibition Hiver Indien...

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Memory, time and family are some of the recurring themes in the art works of New York-based Singaporean photographer and visual artist John Clang. 
They are in “Fear of Losing the existence” (2002) which it is the way the artists has tried to freeze ti...

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The photographs of the versatile French artist Bertrand Desprez portraying Japanese youth illustrate the duality of the portrait. In another world, the prolific and renowned French photographer Patrick Swirc shows us the real person behind the façade of c...

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Minescape is a distressing work of landscape photography. Visually, the book takes a triangular structure that repeats itself throughout the pages: a landscape, a landmine, a prosthesis. The battlefield landscapes are photographed at dawn, romantic and vast, with fairy-tale colors....

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In the heart of Picardy, jnorth of Paris, the Communauty de l’agglomération Creilloise (CaC) is the aglomeration of four communes: Creil, Montataire, Nogent-sur-Oise and Villers-saint- Paul—all important sites of the region’s industrial history. Indeed, ore has been min...

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The French daily newspaper Le Monde has “inadvertently” destroyed ten years of slides and negatives taken by Argentinian photographer Daniel Mordzinski a statement issued on Wednesday apologize for the mistake. The photographer had been using an o...

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Broken Rules is a project that speaks of the power of women in Nepal. All the women in this project share one characteristic: to be the first women to have broken rules in their native Nepal. They are representatives of change. During my time living in Kathmandu I often heard ...

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Born in Pommern, Germany, orphaned early and then called to the Russian Front to fight for the armies of the Third Reich (from which he was released in 1949), Herbert Hoffmann (1919-2010) is a kind of miracle man. He expressed his humanist joy through the media of skin and film. In his...

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