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instead of pulling the 1st girls to court over now live i'm sure there was a history of doing a search mechanic working for the money in support of. saving that same. degree of. and. because society is becoming increasingly as the sceptic. oh it is me is this we're.
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going to selfies snap chat instagram we live in a visual world constantly immersed in images slick filtered images that don't so much capture reality as create a new fake one. but there are photographers pushing back against this glut of gloss some of them are even willing to risk their lives for a picture that matters what drives them arch 21 meets artists whose work stands out in an era of photographic plentitude. afghanistan 2010 shortly after this picture was taken a hand grenade flew over the wall and exploded injuring the photographer she survived. 4 years later shortly before the presidential elections she was killed her name was on your need to bring us. the results and she was in this car about to accompany a convoy with election documents suddenly an afghan policeman came up to her shouted allah akbar god is great and fired up. as
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a photojournalist and your need to bring us took pictures that deeply impressed the impact of war upon the rest of the world. she grew up in a small town in north rhine-westphalia and had been travelling to war torn region since the 1990 s. . always on the front line. she was always aware that she had chosen a dangerous profession widely seen as a male preserve but she believed the occupational hazard was worth it and you need to bring ousts wanted to show the world what was happening in places where few dared to go. the desoto const museum has acquired over 70 of her photographs they feature in an exhibition of female photographers on the front line of combat. what drives these women. french photographer christine spring is the
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ground dom of war photography she freely admits that she relishes adventure. then sure this is still we like then sure all of us these even if the is this that and this is not the main thing of course i feel a concept in. a new. country or a new situation and drama. our either one way very interesting is. that the. tragedy so these says to be. the war photographer. jens immediately when you see something on t.v. . to hate being the way which is not the way the replacements but with the camera. she dedicated her work to the victims of war capturing the suffering of the civilian population the misery often overlooked. the fate of women and children and
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their struggle to carry on with a normal life beyond the front lines. of her work is also about hope amid tragedy these children in cambodia having fun splashing around with empty grenade shells. you must defeat the gist of thinking. is this no i get the one. the truth. they know they can be. really sincere even ace and the women. and fuck will behave and fuck them like maine if you see this dramatic picture of the bombardment up i still have nightmares even today but the speech of this middle of the day is people shouting the chin or the these should own the means the picture i believe the
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between. and if. we do we can and that. corner between this and that of i.m.v. 83 in a night or noise have been like that american for dr carolyn call would never describe herself as extreme she's been working for the los angeles times for 25 years and is very down to earth about her job. she's ambitious result oriented and is garnered a host of photography awards it wasn't really a an intentional thing that i went into conflict photography it was that as i got to the larger newspapers the need to have somebody covering places like afghanistan and iraq became essential and and at that point i felt it was my responsibility to as an american photojournalist to cover those those places where the u.s.
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troops are involved. so it's a sense of duty that drives carolyn cole even though she takes pictures for a daily newspaper her images have the depth of paintings snapshots for posterity. these pictures are not easy to take the ninety's a look at so it's not something that i do for fun and it's something that i feel is my life purpose. the exhibition demonstrates that is different as these women. photographers are they have one thing in common a passion for their job and a willingness to lay their life on the line to do it. how dare as terrible as reality can be it can also be
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sublime habitats and living space are what interest photographer tom hagen. homo sapiens has thrived for nearly 300000 years often in a hostile environment mankind has done all manner of cultivating domesticating digging drilling and building right now it's thawing ice sheets on our planet and barely even noticing because mankind is also very good at denial photographer tom hagen flew over the arctic last summer taking these pictures the series is called 2 degrees celsius named after climate change is magic number the limit that global warming must not exceed the traces we leave all over the planet are the theme of his work. this is one of the oldest human interventions in nature salt mining a colorful symbiosis between industry and the bacteria which live in the salt works begin used to focus on shooting beautiful landscapes but he soon realized that didn't satisfy him if. what he saw from the plane had
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a profound effect on him. when he endorsed especially here in germany when you fly from munich and see the countryside slipping away beneath you. you notice that over 90 percent of our german countryside has been altered by humans and i didn't realize that at 1st. we've left just 0.6 percent of the planet as wilderness claiming everything else and describing it as cultivated. pagan spent months journeying through these landscapes researching how our needs shape our environment. the result is his book habitat. the chair. you titles initially sound very positive. what nourishes us. what fills us up. what drives us. what
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connects us. from a bird's eye view our attempts to make ourselves at home on earth look oddly aesthetic. the accuracy with which we order and aligned the chaos of nature the resourcefulness we have in constantly developing new technologies to secure our existence. each picture has a strange beauty but leaves behind a bitter taste. to since they're very appealing also in terms of color they're very easy on the eye it's as if the beholder is being fed with sugar sweet at 1st but soon you realize that what you see is actually poison seeds. a golden field of rapeseed of. one of the 4 model cultures which are grown on 78 percent of our agricultural space . a romantic country road part of one of the densest traffic networks in
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the world laid from end to end it would reach the moon and back. to german forest. a tidy raw materials warehouse 91 percent is used for timber production. and opencast mine. brutal beauty ignite mining for energy production is going to be phased out in 2 decades time. will go on exploiting the earth until the very last reserves are used up with and another few 100000000 tons of c o 2 have been dumped into the atmosphere he still isn't working. on the only then will we see ok there are consequences such as forest fires sea levels rising refugee crises triggered by an. veyron mental catastrophes then we humans will start to think. we think it's enough to remain pits successfully dug for the exploitation of construction materials and turn them into
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lakes for us and a few other species to splash around in. between while the world population is growing annually by around the same number of people who live in germany the growth is chiefly in countries still far removed from our standard of living but pursuing it with all their might. and. homo sapiens doesn't like to exercise restraint as the last 300000 years have shown tom hagan's artistic mission is to document the results. and. thank you. if i want to work 100 hours a week and never see my family and die in early age that's my private. island money is me is this one.
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excessive wealth american photographer lauren greenfield is fascinated by the super rich binge consumerism does it make us happy generation wealth is the name of her exhibition at hamburg's. i've been a photographer for 25 years with my lens focused on well. i notice that no matter how much people how. they still want more. it's never enough capital is cash sex you lifestyle and obsessive addiction. lauren greenfield takes us on a trip to the excesses of turbo capitalism. welcome to an empire of global madness the world of super egos silky performers brand models the rich and the celebrity want to be i really try to show people the humanity i try not to be judged mental i try to create a safe space where they can tell their stories and that i try to represent their
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stories true to what i've seen. sometimes disturbing sometimes grotesque and almost obscene the 150 photos in the exhibition tread a thin line between the dream and the nightmare of the endless desire for money power and luxury. 52 year old lauren greenfield has known this generation well for a long time she grew up in los angeles encountering it for the 1st time in high school. i think the thing that i'm usual about my perspective are kind of in a way counterintuitive is that it is very critical of the culture. but not very critical of the people that i see people reacting to their surroundings to their influences to different stimuli and i want to look at what that says about our culture i love money. greenfield has also made
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a documentary about her work it's been screened at international best doubles and can now also be seen at the exhibition i have because it's working in almost every color the backstory place else to go 33 pounds of gold diamonds to me but. i know the names of the cardassian that i know the names of my neighbors. after so many years working with the super rich greenfield knows for a fact that money can't buy you happiness. the inner void that luxury is meant to fill is a bottomless pit. which comes across loud and clear in the pictures. capitalism feeds. on people feeling. what we see in many of these stories in the film is that people are using things to fill an emptiness to fill of void that unfortunately.
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brands fill in the blank. tiffany had always wanted to be rich and famous but she burst into tears when she saw her photo. greenfield subjects have paid a high price to be who they are. to sell out a values could not be portrayed more poignantly. but it's sad that the desolation of global capitalism can also be so entertaining. bully's mikhailov subjects couldn't be more different he finds them in places like a busy train station in berlin. his photos go against the grain. the protectionists of his images are antiheroes for derelict down and out. his photos long went unpublished. today the need ukrainian is one of the foremost contemporary
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photographers but yes they show us the wire or take a photo 1st and then ask. if the answer is no i didn't they go. throughout his career boris me highlight focused on people living at the edges of society. is well known series case history from the 1990 s. for trees invalids children and the dispossessed in his home city kharkiv after the collapse of the soviet union. whether of nakedness or need the images are brutally direct often hard to look at me kind of takes a different view. then you would have thought that they'd use the toilet if it's more compassion. maybe even a sign of respect for the problems human suffering. for help people get into this situation by pure bad luck or. you could say this misfortune is preprogrammed
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a look at those these people are no scientists or scholars and then you know you go on there and your idea that. the collapse of the soviet union pushed the lowest reaches of society even lower but me her love captures his subjects pride. they look into his lens with confidence in spite of the misfortunes they've suffered. for them or at their you would you go where or where bush from these are people who have been pushed by life. they lived their lives about a mile and there's no real connection between this life and. i'm a life. i myself was part of their connection with normal water was more i think here in your thought a minute. before sleep after drinking is the title of a major berlin exhibition that are exploring speaker loves 80th birthday. some of the poses seem to recall christian motifs. explains that many people carry poses
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like these inside them and points to an example. of rose garden asked him to show me how he sleeps he said he sleeps like this also you have to lie on top of his neck so he wouldn't get stalled. and then he lay down. and the result was an almost religious looking. at your 1st call their youth. karloff personally experienced the soviet regime suppression losing his job as an engineer because of his photos his work was rarely shown until the 1990 s. then in 1994 mikhail of received a scholarship and left ukraine for new york city. i left for personal and health and other reasons. but the main reason was that you have to defend your work that you have to try to make something out of a. project. at the time it was impossible in your crane to do anything at all
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except collect the pictures that. no longer has to fight for recognition following exhibitions in new york city london and vienna now berlin is often on home for 20 years is finally doing the honors. as a script and that's an obvious in internationally there are very few people who use a camera so powerfully in an effort to influence society. and then all at once in the $99.00 days off appear the only one to emerge in the post soviet environment and his distinctive approach is to look at social injustice and at the physical and really think about it. even if we kind of has an eye for the weakest and most vulnerable he doesn't think of himself as a do gooder his older works examine the heroes of socialism and poke fun at them. all his work in photography has included some form of criticism of the world's
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ruling classes. that if you want a more. traditional answer would be that i'm interested in people you know i'm interested in the appearances but i'm you know journalist you know i'm not interested in what these people are what they do and human. but in their appearance what my eyes show me just why aren't a lot of them where you go out oh my you go over. and what his eyes show him is what others all too often refuse to see but he forces us to look there is the essence of forest which i loves art. and. next stop curiosities in the framed power
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a world class pushes stock in trade for his current project he immersed himself in the new age scene this year looks like an ordinary person yet for those in the know it's an energy sell to make everything all right and can be bought online. close to 6 it's going to cost 26 year a description says that it is charged with all different kinds of energies as modoc energies tacking on energy reverse osmosis and so on all of which emit particularly strong its soft energies to something akin to. a plastic promise to cure all ills this triple extension plug is a power harmonizer for hi fi equipment it costs just $18.00 euros to end the war in syria by taking part in an earthling ritual as part of his research not only bought products but visited esoteric online forums and attended trade fairs and seminars
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he had a personal incentive to understand the fascination he's lost 2 friends to new age thinking both of them are now socially isolated and one of them is heavily in debt according to a study from 24 chain turnover in the esoteric sector in the german speaking area was around 28000000000 euros this is the think this is a thanks to a spacer to prevent collisions made of cardboard 43 year rise. this is and this is unicorns are great for pointing at an argumentative child. whose goodness is a wealth pyramid. maybe this is medicine against kemp trails him transferees interests in trails or the trails of papers up behind by airplanes that the people who believe in conspiracy theories believe that we're being poisoned by higher powers that aluminum and other chemicals are mixed in the airplane fuel tanks in the garden so that we can be manipulated. for me it smells and tastes
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a bit like strawberry dextrose but it sold quite a high price and these are all antidotes to combat the negative effects of these so-called chem trails and even i was waiting for this we're going to trim trees. is ironic response a pentacle of paper trails. still it would be all too easy for him to just make fun of new age ism we live in uncertain times he says and off a simple solutions to complex problems a bracelet made in china is transformed into a techie on information banned simply structured around a cheaper toothpaste and banished to take. new age beliefs fit perfectly in the post truth era where claims have become more important than fact brainwashing is easy. to snooze and this is the worst thing is not that there are people who actually make these claims but that they find followers and if these theories are cleverly embedded maybe
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achieve a broad impact with social media so that a large movement can grow from a stupid idea pretty fast was a very good word. michelle was born in australia 977 he actually studied landscape gardening but he felt like he needed more contact with people. allotment owners from the project middle class utopia. people in pubs in vienna golden days before they end. he has a penchant for the bizarre. that and it matters to him that his subjects recognised themselves in his portraits. in 2014 he photographed people who love dressing up in their own homes.
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some of them go out dressed like this to to show themselves or to make kindred spirits. people aged between 18 and 72 women men in blue collar. professionals. like switching roles and reinventing themselves. i like these people more and more because i'm not wary of them any more of this may make me see that we're all like children in our own way and that takes away the distance between us and there's just a basic understanding that we're all just little kids all a bit crazy and if you're in the spin of. the. photographers with a unique way of seeing artists with courage curiosity and talent. to capture
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moments in time. to express important truths and broaden our understanding of one another and of the world we live in.
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