Festival Breda in Holland and traveling studios of Fnac

	Wednesday10.10.2012
	Interview Fnac: Marion Hislen par Wilfrid Estève Since 2010, Marion Hilsen has been the director of cultural initiatives for the French entertainment retail chain FNAC. “In France, FNAC is one of the few companies to have a cultural policy regarding photography. Its network includes 20 galleries throughout French territory, a... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Fnac Studio: Paolo Verzone During three days, some Fnac stores in France were transformed in photographic studios - where people could have their portraits taken by Paolo Verzone, Françoise Huguier, Rip Hopkins, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Stan Guigui et Denis Darzacq. Our editor Juliette Deschodt ... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Fnac Studio: Françoise Huguier A change of scenery at Françoise Huguier’s set-up. The colors are flashy and the atmosphere is more pop. The space is also more intimate. I’m greeted by Eléonore, her intern, and Julien, her assistant. At last the photographer arrives. A mother and her son are posing. By a curious co... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Fnac Studio: Rip Hopkins Rip Hopkins is set up amidst the uproar of the children’s books section. He’s chosen to use an overhead projector in order to change the background for each portrait. Rip shapes his subjects into different poses. The rendering is unique, very cinematic. “I asked people to touch each other ... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Fnac Studio: Juan Manuel Castro Prieto Juan Manuel Castro Prieto had spent three days at the Fnac studio, but he was still in great shape. “It’s an interesting experience,” says the photographer. “We see a lot of people, sometimes they’re alone. I like it when people are receptive and involved. It results in lovely i... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Fnac Studio: Stan Guigui A motorcycle, a 1950s sidecar, a red curtain and music: Stan Guigui is having a good time. He’s even providing helmets, sunglasses and leather jackets for everyone coming to have their pictures taken. Stan is very comfortable with people, and the families let themselves go, regardless of th... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Fnac Studio: Denis Darzacq The day ends with a cheerful Denis Darzacq. A minimalist, the photographer has chosen a white backdrop and a few geometric pieces of furnitire, which he arranges according to the subject: a cube here, a person there, a sphere here, another person there... The families love it and play along. 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Festival Netherlands: BredaPhoto 2012 You still have some days left, to discover the Breda Photo festival. Until October 21st, the Dutch city greets the work of 55 different photographers. For this fifth edition, BredaPhoto bets on the international. The theme this year is “homo empathicus”, in opposition to homo economicus... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition BredaPhoto 2012 Evgenia Arbugaeva Once upon a time in Siberia, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in a warm bed in a small town, a little girl woke up from a dream. It was morning, but it was still dark out, for the little town was so far North that the sun would not show itself for many months. They called this ... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition BredaPhoto 2012 Maarten Van den Bossche Maarten Van den Bossche (Belgium, 1984) first trained as a stage designer in Ghent. He then studied photography in Brussels at the Narafi, the École le Septant Cinq and Sint-Lukas. Van den Bossche's background in theater can be noticed in his staged performances. His photogra... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition BredaPhoto 2012 Yamamoto Masao A 'kawa', or mountain stream, can turn into a large river as well as become a small stream. Within the scope of this series, Yamamoto Masao refers to lessons from Zen Buddhism called ‘active passivity’; the feeling of calmness and attachment with nature and with the universe, resultin... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition BredaPhoto 2012 Teun Voeten At the end of 2006, newly elected president Felipe Calderon declared the war against the powerful cartels that smuggle Colombian cocaine and domestically produced crystal meth and marihuana into the USA. Approximately 50.000 people, according to conservative estimates, have died in the e... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition BredaPhoto 2012 Peter Martens “For me, a picture needs to knock you over, it immediately needs to reveal that in our world so many things are messed up and that people are suffering for no reason whatsoever.” This quote by Peter Martens (the Netherlands, 1937-1992) is typical of his work and work method. Together w... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition BredaPhoto 2012 New Korean Photography In cooperation with Korean photographer Kyungwoo Chun, BredaPhoto displays the newest generation of talented photographers from Korea. Chun lives and works in Seoul (Korea) and Bremen (Germany). As a lecturer, he works at the College of Arts of the Chung-Ang University in Seou... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition BredaPhoto 2012 Tiina Itkonen The Arctic has fascinated explorers, adventurers, traders and whalers ever since ancient times. And since the beginning of the 1990s, I have been searching for my own Ultima Thule, my place in the Far North. I traveled to Greenland first time in 1995 and since then I have traveled re... 10.10.2012[ read full story ]
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