Retrospective, Les portfolios du Journal

Weekend Portfolios03.11.2012

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Retrospective
Les portfolios du Journal

In the previous twelve months, twelve prestigious judges have selected the weekend portfolios. We’ve decided to present them all to you again this November. In December, the judges will review their selections and choose one or two finalists. You, the readers, will then vote ...

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Jean-Luc Monterosso's Selection

These are the portfolios chosen by Jean-Luc Monterosso, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris).

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Valerie Winckler
Un soir de pleine lune

Valérie Winckler lives in the suburbs of Paris. She has been a member of the Rapho agency since 1984. In addition to her reportages and documentaries, she has been working for the past ten years without a camera, using the photogramme technique. You can read the full text i...

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Baptiste Léonne
Hotel girls

Baptiste Léonne is 35 and lives in Paris. "My photography contains order and intimacy..." writes Léonne who worked in blurred black and white for his pictures of women in the intimacy of hotel rooms.

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Charles Roussel
Sleeping Out

I am a 27 year old photographer; I grew up in France and moved to New York about 5 years ago. As I didn't have a natural aptitude for painting or drawing; I was drawn to photography, as the camera became my brush to portray the beauty that I witnessed.

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Evi Karagiannidi: The Camera in Wonderland

Evi leads us on a trip of questions through her visual suggestions. She makes us wonder whether she reflects the history of the place or unfolds a personal story in front of our eyes through her camera. Evi Karagiannidi’s story, like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, shifts ...

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Jon Reid
Predominantly Orange

A few years ago I started to notice that safety cones were appearing in some of my street photography. Of course, they are designed to be highly visible, to alert us to the presence of perceived danger, to keep us separated from danger or perhaps just to reduce the likelihood of litiga...

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Maider Kuadra
Reflection in a mirror

My interest in photography began when I was a child, because my grandfather was a photographer and his home was always full of photographs and cameras. Since then they caught my attention, I was intrigued to see those people of the past. Over time I studied photography at the Sc...

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Matteo Bastianelli
Post war in the Balkans

I am a 26 free-lance photographer, filmmaker and journalist based between Rome and Sarajevo. In 2007 I started working on long-term documentary projects, focusing mainly on social issues and post war consequences in the Balkans.

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Mertxe Alarcón
Self-portraits

Her first contact with photography was at age 16. She started working in photography shops then worked in photo labs for 15 years (Fuji Film Spain among them). During 2 years focuses in architectural photography, traveling throughout Spain. Then she guide her steps into publishing, fi...

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Paolo Patruno
Redemption

Paolo Patruno is a humanitarian photographer who creates evocative, compelling images which promote action and change for the sake of the most vulnerable people in the world. Paolo’s social documentary work gives a powerful voice to the people that need support by capturing the real need fo...

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Robert Ellis
New Line

Robert Ellis was born in Dublin in 1984 and is a graduate of MFA Photography in the University of Ulster, Belfast. His photography, which has been exhibited in Ireland and abroad, often deals with the notion of “home”. Working with small rural communities, his photographs rely on inherent or l...

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Steve Ryan
Catholic Ireland

Religious statues and grottos are commonly found in housing estates, schools, crossroads, churches, railway crossings and town squares throughout Ireland. Many were erected in the Marian year of 1954 as a celebration of Mary and to protect an area and bless the people around them.

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Studio Edelweiss
Children's dreams

Studio Edelweiss consists of Jan Matthys (1973, Ghent, Belgium) and Michaël Van Den Berghe ( also 1973, Ghent, Belgium). In the past few years we have been specializing in some kind of staged, narrative photography. Quite often these images are children's dreams for grown ups, mag...

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Aleix Plademunt
Dubailand

The exhibition presented at gallery Waltman is a collection of images that revolve around the Dubailand project and have it as their backbone at the same time. Dubailand closely tracks some of the symbols that reference the action of man and his relationship with the environment of the ci...

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Dan Hayon
The Time Machine

I’m a 65 year old Romanian living in Paris since 1993. I do have now the French nationality. In Bucharest, many, many years ago, after graduating from the Art Academy, had ran away as quick as I could from the Ceausescu’s paradise. It was 1972.

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Pierre Capperon
Géométrie du fracas

The photos belong to a series, Géométrie du fracas, taken in 2008 and 2009 during the demolition of an industrial site near the port of Bayonne. The structured compositions violently depict the gradual disappearance of the site, haunted by the ghosts of its former operators. Th...

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Agnieszka Wrzesniak
Silent Places

The industrial society is now redefining its identity and the previous working spaces and buildings are now losing their meaning. I am especially intrigued by the heat and power generating building in Bytom. The power plant used to be an integral part of this industrial city, howev...

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Mairead Keating: The Boys of Barr na Sráide

My name is Mairead Keating, and I am a 24 year old, Irish, Photography student. I am currently studying in the Edinburgh College of Art, at Edinburgh University, (First Year). I studied Interior Architecture for three years in Cork Institute of Technology and then pursued ...

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Philippe Garner's Selection

These are the portfolios chosen by Philippe Garner, the International Head of the Photography Department at Christie's.

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Marta Bielska
Mystery and charm

Born in Plock (Poland) in 1978. From the youngest years she was involved with a creative environment, exhibitions and photography. In 1997 to 2000 she participated in many seminars and courses about photography, and she was also involved with organisation of exhibitions and cultural...

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Eric Lepointe
Abandoned factories

The photographs presented here, taken in abandoned textile factories, show to what extent the photographer’s eye was attracted by the walls, both as surfaces and as installations. The studios remain studios, but these spaces, formerly used for industrial production, become space fo...

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Miriam O Connor
Attention Seekers

Miriam O’ Connor was born in Cork, Ireland in 1973 and currently lives and works in Dublin. In 2007 she graduated with an honors degree in photography from Dublin Institute of Technology. Funded by the Higher Education Authority of Ireland, O’ Connor recently completed a Research M...

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Justin Winz
Paris

With Paris, artist Justin Winz is presenting his second book, following the sold out debut „American Detail“, from 2008. The self-published artist book will have its international launch at the „Paris Photo“ art fair in the Grand Palais in Paris this november, in collaboration with the in...

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Dan Hayon
Inside Agathe

My name is Dan Hayon. I'm a 65 five year old Romanian living in Paris. After completing my studies at the Bucharest's Art Academy in the late sixties, I left Romania and practically stoped taking pictures. Later, much later, encouraged by Frank Horvat, I started again.

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Estelle Zolotoff
Inside Landscape

For this series taken in Kostroma, Russia, I searched for traces and clues of the interior life I could have led, had I been born in this region. Taking my own interior life as a starting point, my photographs examine the outward appearance of beings and the spaces they inhabit. Li...

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Kares Le Roy
56,000 Kilomètres

For his first book, 56,000 Kilomètres: un continent et des hommes, Kares Le Roy gives a face to the people of forgotten Asia across five chapters: South-Eastern Asia, South Asia, North Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. Combining portraits, landscapes and scenes from life in mor...

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Germán Peraire
As the time goes by

Born in Barcelona in 1988, Germán Peraire discovered photography at the age of 16 and ever since devoted to it. Studied photography in the Politechnical University of Catalunya and started a professional career, exhibiting in galleries and festivals arround Europe. Represented no...

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Jessica Forde
Degrees of separation

3 main female characters, 3 generations, & the Internet. She carefully constructs her images around the everyday life and it’s aesthetic, intimately yet with restraint. Building up her characters, the settings, the costumes, the light and colors. Her photographic works mainly foc...

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Valentina Angeloni
Windows' Stories

I began photographing windows in New York while studying Interior Design at Parsons School during summer 2003: those pictures were initially intended as an inspiration archive of window frames, hinting at different interiors and room shapes. But soon I realized that I was interes...

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Geoffroy Ménabréa
Icônes familières

I am a young thirty year old photographer living and working in Paris. After having finished my philosophy studies with a mémoire about Nietzsche and the physiology of art, I began working with light. Featuring sooty black and white, my pictures question the idea of the ...

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Philippe Aractingi
Nuit sur Beyrouth

I have forever been a spontaneous witness of the evolution of this city. I have been filming and taking pictures of it for over 30 years, afraid it might disappear. It is true that Beirut never ceases to evolve, to be destroyed and rebuilt. Today we are experiencing an overw...

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Joachim Lapotre
Paris Syndrome

Paris Syndrome is characterized by a number of psychiatric symptoms such as acute delusional states, hallucinations, feelings of persecution (perceptions of being a victim of prejudice, aggression, or hostility from others), derealization, depersonalization, anxiety, and also psychoso...

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Pierre Chiquelin
Flaques

The matter featured in these pictures comes from puddles left by the tide in this ambivalent land, at the same time maritime, terrestrial, the beach. In these little enclosed spaces arises a saturation of substances. Light, mineral, liquid, organic matter…

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Loretta Fiore
Identity

Loretta Fiore was born in Fondi, Italy, in 1974, and now lives in Milan. Fiori, who holds a degree in Economics, has always had a passion for photography. "The construction of an identity," she believes, "passes through a phase of self-representation." It's an idea that she explores in her wo...

17.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Danica Kus
Marble room

I have been working as an architectural photographer for several years. The photographs from the series Marble Room were taken in Carrara, Italy.

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Diego Diaz Marin
Aquazzura

Diego Diaz Marin is a Spanish fashion photographer. He was born in 1987 in a town called Torre del Mar in Malaga. When he was only 8 years old, his father had installed on his computer the software Adobe Photoshop and like a joke, he was learning to use it. Diego began to take pictures of...

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Stéphanie Foäche
Nulle Part

I am a 46-year old French photographer. In my photographs, I strive to capture the spirit of places, their calm and serenity in opposition to the frantic rhythm of modern life. I try to make my images both simple and atypical. Photography is for me an opportunity to reflect on the rhyt...

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Yelena Zhavoronkova
Dead End

Some places are hard to visit or even drive by. For different reasons. Over the years I collected quite a number of these spots in the city of San Francisco, where I live for almost 20 years now. To break the pattern, to remove the spell which is giving me the heart ache every time I a...

18.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Oksana Yushko
Toilers of the Sea

Oksana Yushko is a freelance photographer, started working as a professional journalist in 2006, based in Moscow. Higher education in computer science and mathematics. Changed her profession and became a photographer 5 years ago when realized her interest in photography, and later i...

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Anastasia Tailakova
In Vain

Every new day gives us hundreds of opportunities. Gigabytes of new information, armfuls of exciting events, kilometres of unexplored places, chances of adventitious meetings – all this is waiting for us with the beginning of each 24-hour time span, which we are to use as effectively and ...

25.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Margo Ovcharenko
Suddenly

Margo Ovcharenko was born in Krasnodar, Russia. Graduated from Moscow school of Photography and Multimedia. Solo exhibitions in Copenhagen, Moscow, St.Petersburg and participant of numerous exhibition projects and festivals in Russia, Europe and US, including Re:Generation 2 and the New Yo...

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Jessica Forde
Slovenia The Lake

East Teens documents a generation of a "postwar" Eastern European youth. Jessica Forde, was born in London in 1966 and is now based in Paris. She has taken pictures since adolescence and has worked for the past ten years as a unit still photographer.

24.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Tito Mouraz
Open Space Office

The series presented here was shot in Portugal over a 2-year period and represents a transformed landscape that portrays the existence of Man as a constructive, reconstructive and contemplative being. The landscape appears completely and irreversibly transformed and it was this transfo...

24.12.2011[ read full story ]

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Daria Tuminas
Ivan and the Moon

I was born in 1984 in St.-Petersburg, Russia. I have always been interested in approaching photography in several ways. First of all, I am doing academic researches. I wrote an MA thesis about amateur photography at St.-Petersburg State University and for now I am a student at Leiden...

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François Delebecque
Nocturne Végétale

The night, along with rudimentary lighting effects, allows me to reveal the raptures of nature and the tremors of the human soul. François Delebecque, 56, lives in Malakoff, France.

24.12.2011[ read full story ]

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