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Nov 11 2009
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THE NINTH FLOOR


“The ninth floor is just like any other floor in a Manhattan building, but in this case it is the apartment where a group of addicts buy and sell drugs, sleep, argue, make love and fight. For almost three years I followed the stories of the ninth floor and of its residents”

Photos by Jessica Dimmock

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Jessica Dimmock lives in New York. She graduated in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at The International Center of Photography. Her work was published in Aperture and The New York Times Magazine.

Jessica also won the 1st edition of the “F Award”; created by FABRICA (creative think-tank based in Italy).

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Sep 09 2009
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MIDDLE DISTANCE AND BEYOND THE VEIL

Images by Olivia Arthur, a Magnum Nominee.

Says the Magnum Website:

Olivia was born in London and grew up in the UK. She studied mathematics at Oxford University and photojournalism at the London College of Printing. In 2003 she moved to Delhi to work as a freelance photographer covering assignments around the Indian Subcontinent. In 2006 she was invited for a one year residency with Fabrica in Italy, where she began work on ‘the middle-distance’, a project about the lives of young women along the border between Europe and Asia. This work was exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris as part of a Fabrica group show and later travelled to the Milan Triennial, the Shanghai Art Museum and the Shiodomeitalia Creative Center in Tokyo. For the past two years she has continued to work on a long-term project about women and the east-west cultural divide. This work has been supported by the Inge Morath Award from Magnum, a Bursary from the National Media Museum and the OjodePez-PhotoEspana Award for Human Values.”

(Oh, these other ex-Fabrica‘s pop up everywhere.)

(Her website still needs a stronger edit I think, but some very nice images to be found. More here.)

(Via here)

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Sep 04 2008
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CHICAGO

Everything that happened, happened here first, in rehearsal. The invasion of Beirut, the first and second Intifada, the Gaza withdrawl, the battle of Falluja; almost everyone of Israel´s major millitary tactics in the Middle East over the past three decades was performed in advance here in Chicago, an artificial but realistic Arab town built by the Israeli defense force for urban combat training.

To create this alternative universe, Palestinian architecture has been carefully scrutinized. Roads and alleyways have been constructed to mimic the layout of towns like Nablus. Graffiti has been applied to walls in Arabic: “I love you Ruby” and “Red ash, hot as blood.”

(“Chicago” is a photo series by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. Or Adam and Oli, as we all know them, said in one same swift phrase without breaks: Adamandoli. They have been working together for many years now. We met while they where the Creative Directors of Colors Magazine. Adam is also part of the first generation of Fabrica. You can see more images of this series on their website, by clicking on their names.)

(And history, also, yes, in the rehearsals. In the planning out what we will do, in the sketches,  the practice, and even the dreams: some kind of reality. An alternate reality, the sidewalks of reality, being constructed under the feet and the mind that thinks and imagines. Practicing. But reality nonetheless.)

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Aug 23 2008
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AFRICAN ALBINOS, BY PIETER HUGO


Hugo was born in South Africa, and has been taking portraits of the continent’s marginal people. Lately, he has been wining awards to the right and to the left, including the “Discovery Award” at Arles Photography Festival. He was also included on ReGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025 (Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, and Aperture, New York), an exhibition identifying 50 young photographers who will be considered great by 2025, accompanied by a book published by Thames & Hudson. He won first prize in the Portraits section of the 2006 World Press Photo competition, and was selected as the Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2007, with an exhibition touring South Africa until July 2008.

(He is also an ex-Fabricanti, though he was there a couple of years later than me so we never met.)

(Read an interview with Hugo here.)

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