Nadja Groux
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Nadja Groux > “Ma pratique de photographe plasticienne se situe au croisement de l’art et de l’anthropologie puisque je suis aussi anthropologue. Cette discipline donne une direction conceptuelle.
Ma démarche consiste à explorer l’identité en proie à diverses expériences telles que la maladie et la mort, la géographie des origines, le désir et l’ambition…Cette exploration est présentée avec un oeil essentiellement analytique, évitant une sur-esthetisation de l’image.
J’ai également développé l’outil photographique comme mode d’intervention dans le social et j’ai créé des ateliers photographiques citoyens au Moyen-Orient et au Kenya. Leur but étaient de permettre aux participants de s’approprier les outils de création de l’image.
Enfin, j’ai travaille commercialement en particulier a New York…”
127th@StNick
“127th@StNick”, est un projet fait a New York, Harlem par Nadja Groux, qui travaille au croisement de l’anthropologie et de la photographie. Ce projet fait partie des projets laureats de la Bourse du Talent 2010, categorie “architecture et paysage” et sera exposé à la BNF (Paris) a partir du 17 Décembre 2010.
Ce travail est composé d’ une longue série de photos faites au cours de plusieurs années, prises à peu pràs sous le même angle d’une des fenetres de l’appartement de la photographe, d’un meme coin de rue et de ses activites, la 127eme rue et St Nicholas Terrace à New York.
C’est une forme d’observation presque clinique d’un quartier Afro-Americain dans le contexte particulier des 20 dernières années marquées par une rupture dans l’évolution sociale et qui a vu l’écart entre la richesse des noirs et celle des blancs être multiplié par quatre.
La série se lit comme un story board fait de planches contacts avec des photos en close-up placées en alternance et qui rythment la narrative.
L’auteur s’est interessée a décrypter diffèrents aspects de cet espace urbain:
- Ordre plastique et géométrie émotionnelle.
- Placement et organisation de la tension dans l’espace.
- Rapport conceptuel, artistique de situations ordinaires
- Question de la mécanique des pouvoir
- Sequestration/embrigadement spatiale et mentale
- Problématique du rapport de force
- Syndrome de Stockolm
Un autre aspect interessant est la superposition des diffèrents regards sur cet espace:
- Le regard de la ville au travers les helipcoteres de la police et des cameras de surveillance
- Le regards des petits dealers qui passent leurs temps a surveiller la rue
- Le regard de l’auteur au travers de l’appareil photo
- le regard de ceux qui regarderont ces photos.
Posted on: December 9th, 2010 by admin
Francesca Tosarelli
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Francesca Tosarelli is a freelance photographer born in 1984. After a childhood spent in a wild and rural Brazil she developed a passion for travels and the narration through the visual language of photography. Emotionally and politically she is close to social photography and reportage. She has a degree in History of Arts with a thesis about Letizia Battaglia, and enrolled in a photography Master at CFP Bauer in Milan.
She then worked for almost one year with Shobha, a Contrasto reporter. Now she is based in London, where she explores the photojournalistic sphere, and she works in Italy as a photographer for “Pixel” magazine, Ugf.
The rebirth of Coney Island
Coney Island is a legendary place by the seaside, an hour from Manhattan.
At the beginning of the last century this place was called “Sodom by the sea” for its fame to be the base of backers, and of eccentric and extravagant people.
Known for the old fun-fair “Luna Park”, Coney Island was an attraction for its bizzarre shows. In the last years everything changed and the whole area was restructured. The first week of June 2010 saw the opening of the new Luna Park, which became once again a cheap meeting place especially for black and hispanic working classes.
Coney island still beholds a peculiar and extraordinary charm, and is still lived by “contemporary freaks”.
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Posted on: June 24th, 2010 by admin
Bar Am-David
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Bar Am-David was born in 1985 and raised in Tel Aviv and Caesarea , Israel . His Passion for photography evolved when he was 18 years old. At that time he volunteered for the Israeli national service by living and working in a collective community (Kibbutz) at the northern border of Israel next to Lebanon . Continuously he travelled the world for two years covering four continents, an experience which enriched his life greatly. He is about to finish his BA in Photography at Middlesex University in London, UK.
He is currently exhibiting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and he will have his upcoming exhibition of “The Story of Tel Aviv Jaffa, Israel” at the Old Truman Brewery in London, UK.
The Life in Tel Aviv – Jaffa, Israel
Tel Aviv is divided into nine districts that are formed naturally over the city’s short history. The most notable of these is Jaffa, the ancient port city out of which Tel Aviv grew. This area is traditionally made up demographically of a greater percentage of Arabs, but recent gentrification is replacing them with a young professional population and Israelis.
This is the most celebrated place in Israel, where Israelis and Arabs live in peace together despite the continued historical conflict.
My purpose was to examine the lifestyle of this particular place. Through simple narrative, I have presented how ordinary these people are in their extra ordinary circumstances.
These photographs therefore promise no solutions but serve only to remind us of the enduring human spirit people have even through the most challenging adversity.
Posted on: May 20th, 2010 by admin
Matilde Gattoni
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Matilde Gattoni was born in Italy in 1974 from a French mother and an Italian father. She studied History and History of the Art at the University of Strasbourg in France. Her work focuses on water issues around the world, due to drought, desertification and ecological disasters. Her photographic work has appeared in publications such as Time Magazine, Elle, Geo, The Observer, Der Spiegel and Ventiquattro.
The Dark Side of Dubai
There are three different Dubais, all swirling around each other. There are the expats; there are the Emiratis, headed by Sheikh Mohammed; and then there is the foreign underclass who built the city, and are trapped here. They are hidden in plain view. You see them everywhere, in dirt-caked blue uniforms, being shouted at by their superiors, like a chain gang – but you are trained not to look.
Every evening, the hundreds of thousands of young men (more…)
Posted on: March 1st, 2010 by admin
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