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PRIVATE 58 | IRAN today
5 January 2014
PRIVATE 58 | IRAN today
The collection of photos published in this magazine is a photo-story of personal concerns, documentations and reports made by 14 photographers who live and work in Iran.
PRIVATE 57 | INQUIRY – special VII photo agency
31 January 2013
PRIVATE 57 | INQUIRY – special VII photo agency
It’s common to hear photojournalists described as the eyes of the world, acting as witnesses to events that we would otherwise not see. To some extent this is true, but it’s a simplified description that suggests passive observation and it…
PRIVATE 56 | School
6 May 2012
PRIVATE 56 | School
Good news, it infuses this issue with a sense of joy, and with an aspect of carefree childhood seized in flight. There is a feeling of solemnity, but a tender solemnity. An innocence that confronts the world, its difficulties and…
PRIVATE 55 | Rurality Now
31 December 2011
PRIVATE 55 | Rurality Now
The last global farmers shelter in rifts and unreachable ravines enveloped in loneliness huddle on the margins and scraps of earth still damp from warm, organic contact and human touch. Precarious land that is alive because of extreme poverty.
PRIVATE 54 | LOST
30 September 2011
PRIVATE 54 | LOST
You are only dust amidst dust. You are only just visible even if you gesticulate, even if you make a commotion, even if you speak loud and clearly: you act in a silent film. Or rather: one hears nothing that…
PRIVATE 53 | HOPE
30 June 2011
PRIVATE 53 | HOPE
The photos in this volume are personal records of events that have taken place in the physical world. They are about discovery, not creation; about finding out, not inventing – for other people to see how the photographer has framed…
PRIVATE 52 | Contemporary Photography SOUTH KOREA
31 March 2011
PRIVATE 52 | Contemporary Photography SOUTH KOREA
Even though it has been only about 10 years since photography was included in art in Korea, photography is becoming the very basics and center of the whole art field as it goes through amazing changes.
PRIVATE 51 | Global Report 2
31 December 2010
PRIVATE 51 | Global Report 2
As unique and special the scenes are that the photographers for this issue have chosen to focus on, the similarities (what we have in common, what we share) that can be found around the globe are striking.
PRIVATE 50 | True or Real? CHINA
30 September 2010
PRIVATE 50 | True or Real? CHINA
In contemporary China, uncertainty about what is “true” and what is “false”, “reality” and “appearance”, extends from the realm of photography to that of existence itself. We often feel that we are confronted with such an illusory, ambiguous, unexpected “reality”…
PRIVATE 49 | FRANCE PRÉSENCES
30 June 2010
PRIVATE 49 | FRANCE PRÉSENCES
Such photographs are there not to gratify a curiosity, but are made in response to a feeling: it is not only the landscape we see, even if it takes solid form, and darkens or brightens in certain frames, or is…
PRIVATE 48 | Economic inequalities
30 March 2010
PRIVATE 48 | Economic inequalities
The pictures of this issue show economic inequalities as they are today in a way which breaks the stupor of indifference generated by watching antiseptic clean TV programmes of the main news channels.
PRIVATE 47 | ISRAEL
22 December 2009
PRIVATE 47 | ISRAEL
Documenters in Israel and Palestine: Arabs, Jews and foreign photographers, participate in an active search for genuine circumstances of manifestations of the psychic, body and territory that represent a local third space condition. The means of communication embody these Meta…
PRIVATE 46 | MENTAL GEOGRAPHY – Galerie VU’
22 September 2009
PRIVATE 46 | MENTAL GEOGRAPHY – Galerie VU’
For more than 10 years, Galerie VU’ has been promoting photographers of various ages, nationalities and inspirations. This issue of private magazine, which is dedicated to them, proves it.
PRIVATE 45 | DEVELOPMENT. An Ecological Question
22 June 2009
PRIVATE 45 | DEVELOPMENT. An Ecological Question
Our planet is in crisis; a crisis captured through this collection of photo essays taken by world-class photographers. It tells a story of environmental degradation and gives a voice to some of the forgotten peoples who are paying the price.…
PRIVATE 44 | REAL – Special NOOR Photo Agency
22 March 2009
PRIVATE 44 | REAL – Special NOOR Photo Agency
The goal of the photo agency Noor is to produce, publish, and exhibit long term visual projects on topics of human concerns to a broad international audience while maintaining the dignity of the subjects.
PRIVATE 43 | Other side India
22 December 2008
PRIVATE 43 | Other side India
Whenever people talk about ‘Indian photography’ it obviously leads to a debate and discussion about how appropriate it is to term it as ‘Indian photography’ rather than ‘photography in India’. The question is: to what extent has photography in India…
PRIVATE 42 | Social Issues
22 September 2008
PRIVATE 42 | Social Issues
The photographers of this volume report the world as they have researched, investigated, explored, experienced and discovered it, and decided to tell us about.
PRIVATE 41 | From Poland
22 June 2008
PRIVATE 41 | From Poland
What is the state of Polish photography after 2000 then? This is a difficult question: today there seems to be a lack of meaningful currents and trends, and lots of authors borrow from other countries.
PRIVATE 40 | Crossing Boundaries
22 March 2008
PRIVATE 40 | Crossing Boundaries
Through subjects which are hard, frequently morbid and often far from our everyday concerns, these photographers are taking on the primary role of the artist. They are revealing our deepest contradictions and expressing their dreams and the nightmares which we…
PRIVATE 39 | I am PAKISTANI
22 December 2007
PRIVATE 39 | I am PAKISTANI
In Pakistan we have reached a state of alchemy that typifies the post-post modern life. Life drudges through its multifarious activities of simple poverty until it climaxes into a bustle of hot abrasion in the struggle to churn out the…