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Paris Fine Art Photography Masterclass with Jeff Cowen
Berlin-based photographer Jeff Cowen creates sculptural, mural-size photographic prints that are featured in over 100 collections worldwide.
He comes to Paris to teach a 5-day masterclass May 23-27.
Cosmic Surgery
Alma Haser creates kaleidoscopic cubist portraits by folding photos into origami structures and then photographing them again over the original same-size photo portraits.
American Girls
For upscale consumers, an American Girl doll can be customized to look exactly like its owner. Ilona Szwarc explores this phenomenon in a series of portraits of real girls with their avatars.
Swell
A story of a break-up and of unaccepted loneliness, by
Mateusz Sarello.
Backstage Heros
The Right Livelihood Award ( the “Alternative Nobel Prize”) honors people who have developed outstanding solutions to urgent problems of our times. Katharina Mouratidi traveled the world to meet and photograph these heros.
Long-Term Refugee
Camps in Lebanon
Gloriann Liu photographs the generations of Palestinians who live in small apartments stacked on top of each other, in camps that were set up originally in 1949.
Bazaar
Reza Golchin captures the blur and movement of buyers and sellers at fresh fruit and fish bazaars in contemporary Iran.
In My Skin
Michelle Sank’s project looks at young people under the age of 25 in the UK who have had or are considering having cosmetic surgery in order to become more acceptable to themselves and achieve their ideal of being “beautiful”.
Ship Breaking in Bangladesh
The poorly regulated ship breaking industry in Bangladesh is estimated to generate annual revenues of $1.5 billion and employs as many as 50,000 mostly illiterate workers and children under dangerous low-paying conditions. Photo-essay by Jan Møller Hansen.
 Visitor’s View: North Korea
Grandiose public monuments and propagandist decoys meant to impress official visitors on guided (and guarded) tours are rendered lifeless by the total lack of ordinary everyday citizens. Photos by Maxime Delvaux.
VII: The Magazine
Exclusive multimedia reports from inside the world of photo-journalism. Often disturbing, sometimes amusing, always insightful. Updated with fresh content weekly. This photo of winter bathers in Poland from a video by Maciek Nabrdalik.
 1,000 Buddhas
An ongoing collaborative project reaching out to photographers all over the world — please contribute your photos today!
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Enjoy Lens Culture’s high-resolution slideshow preview of what will be on show at the all-new Paris Photo Los Angeles art fair. This photo © Trine Søndergaard, Strude#15, 2008-10, Courtesy Martin Asbæk Gallery.
A great new photobook, Nostalgia: The Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II Captured in Color Photographs, presents 280 amazing images by color photography pioneer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
After World War II, families in small and remote fishing villages in Lofoten, Northern Norway, were offered a lump sum from the government to leave their homes and relocate to more central places in a plan to modernize the nation. Photographer Hebe Robinson re-connects those hardy souls with their rugged outposts via heirloom snapshots and contemporary landscapes.
Eran Gilat, a neuroscientist and avid art photographer, composes beautiful yet disturbing still life images with biological specimens set in surreal anachronistic scenes. 
In November 2012, rocket exchanges between Gaza and Israel intensified for the first time in years, and soldiers came streaming through the separation wall to fight on the ground. Photojournalist Will Hilton delivers this report from a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank.
Luca Zanier’s luscious photos inside nuclear power plants, coal-fired power stations, storage facilities for nuclear waste and other energy systems seem like the sets of science-fiction films. Strange worlds emanating a cool logic — these are cathedrals of industry, hidden temples of an energy-guzzling society. 
What does a typical two-hour period of life look like for a multi-tasking mom, artist, teacher, wife? H Jennings Sheffield juxtaposes digital slices of her life to create dizzying visual collisions depicting everyday modern life.
Michal Solarski re-visits land-locked Lake Balaton, which served as a resort destination for people who were rewarded for their socialist behavior during his childhood in the days of the Iron Curtain. 
The Eastern Subcontinent, which comprises Bangladesh and parts of India, is an area of exceedingly rich cultural traditions and immense diversity, and its festivals testify to this considerable wealth. Claudio Cambon delivers this report. Warning: some images may disturb sensitive viewers.
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