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Rip Hopkins, École des Beaux Arts, 75006 Paris, Série "Paris Anonyme", 2005
Rip Hopkins, Ligne 5, 75011 Paris, Série "Paris Anonyme", 2005
Rip Hopkins, École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, 75011 Paris, Série "Paris Anonyme", 2005
Martin Kollar, New Orleans TV
Martin Kollar, Los Angles TV
Martin Kollar, New Orleans TV
Tiane Doan Na Champassak, Manifestation anti CPE, Paris 2006
Tiane Doan Na Champassak, Koovagam, Inde
Tiane Doan Na Champassak, Haïti, Carnaval à Jacmel, 15 février 2004
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2 November- 26 November 2006
Rip Hopkins, Martin Kollar and Tiane Doan Na Champassak have recently been awarded a number of major photography prizes. Members of the VU Agency, they travel widely, choose their own subjects and engage in long term projects. The photographs for the exhibition were chosen at the last minute to ensure they reflect their most recent work.
Born in Sheffield in 1972, Rip Hopkins works on themes related to humanitarian issues, social awareness and geopolitics, exploring form in order to deal most effectively with his chosen subjects. He is a true photojournalist, collecting as much information as possible on the themes he chooses to deal with, and makes innovative use of panoramic lenses and colour in the visual investigations of reality that constitute the main body of his work. What sets Rip Hopkins apart is his sensitivity to colour and materials and sense of what makes up a "setting", which he expresses in an idiom that is both poetic and restrained.
Awards: Observer Hodge Award (1997), World Press Photo Masterclass and Kodak young photo-reporter Prize (1998), Fondation Hachette Grant (2000), Fondation CCF Photography Award (2001), Grant from the FIACRE (2004).
Publications :
Nimulé, dernière ville du sud Soudan, Filigranes, Paris, 1997.
Tadjikistan, tissages, Actes Sud, Arles, 2002.
Déplacés, Textuel, Paris, 2004.
Décade 1995 - 2005, Filigranes, Paris, 2006.
Otkritki, Steidl, Göttingen, 2006.
Born in 1971 in Zlina (Slovakia), Martin Kollar studied film in Bratislava and made many documentaries before becoming a photographer. He immediately began working in colour, producing a collection of humorous pictures vergin on the absurd, distancing himself just enough to reveal the oddness of a given situation. Faced with a historic moment, he does not set out to record the event but to reveal the surprising ways it affects people.
Awards : Czech Press Photo (2000), Fujifilm Euro Press Photo Awards (2001, 2003), Mio Photo Award - Japon (2002), Backlight Award - Finland (2003), Association 3P (2004), Scam Roger Pic (2005)
Publication : Slovensko 001, Institut pre verejne otazky/Slovenkia on the Move, Bratislava, 2001
Born in 1973 in Puyvert in the south of France, Tiane Doan Na Champassak travels regularly to southern and south-east Asia and works for several magazines. His work includes a major photographic feature on the Rom people which took him to India, Bulgaria, Romania, France and Spain from 1994 to 2000, and others on the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan for DS Magazine (1999), on Kerala for German Geo Magazine (1999), on aids in India for Stern (2000), and on winegrowing in Pakistan for National Geographic (2000). In 2000 he was awarded a prize by the Villa Médicis Hors Les Murs for a feature on Champassak in Laos. In 2001, his work on "Kumbh Mela" ceremonies was shown as part of the Visa pour l'Image festival in Perpignan.
Awards : Fondation Hachette (1997), SCAM du portfolio photographique (2001), World Press Photo (2002).
Publication: Le sexe des anges, Paris, La Martinière, 2003.
Curator : Peter Knapp, photographer, artistic director and filmmaker.
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