Michael Magers presents a selection of images from my time diving with the Ama, Japan's aging female free-divers. A dwindling group of women in the 60s and 70s who still…
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An implied narrative is unknowingly performed by 'real actors' on a 'real stage'. The images are placed at the intersection of documentary and poetry, found and made.…
It all began when I came to Paris. Lonesome and unknown to the world, I gradually treaded the city, night and day But something more was happening at night. Those…
The photographs from Natural Findings began with the idea, that our early foray into the natural world is not only innate; it is familial. When an older sibling offers up…
The airy luminosity of an ethereal space, aseptic and suspended, contrasts with the stolidity of these bodies - less than perfect in their awkward and authentic humanness.…
Photography played a major role in distancing landscape imagery - used and graphic design - from realistic representation. In my works, I deprived the photographical landscape from this same traditional…
A sociologist described the peoples living on the edge of the delta as more utopian than others. In literature utopia is sometimes represented by a group of people living in…
I chose to make portraits in Paris subway randomly stealth and anonymous meetings that punctuate my day as a millions of users. These images are between a traditionnal photography (the…
I first discovered Lebohang Kganye’s work through the black-and-white photographs taken from her series Ke Lefa Laka, where Kganye photographed herself wearing an oversized black suit and hat, posing in front of…