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The ten commandments of culture

By eyecurious | Published: 10 September 2009
I just found out that France has a Council for Artistic Creation and that Marin Karmitz (a producer, distributor and founder of MK2 cinemas) runs it. Apparently Karmitz’s position is complementary to the minister of culture: he is not involved with the macro stuff but is supposed to “innovate, experiment and push the boundaries”, particularly [...]
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Witnesses to hunger

By eyecurious | Published: 8 September 2009
The French newspaper, Le Monde, recently ran an article on a photographic project that is taking place in Philadelphia, called Witnesses to Hunger. In 2008, a public health researcher from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Mariana Chilton, gave 40 single mothers a camera and asked them to document their lives and their struggle to get by. [...]
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The mus-mus @Paris project

By eyecurious | Published: 1 September 2009
The mysterious mus-mus collective have just launched their @Paris project online. The project was based on the idea of finding out how photographers today see Paris and think about the Paris they see.” There are some big names in here (Stephen Shore, Alec Soth) but also a lot of discoveries. I did find a lot [...]
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mus-mus @Paris project

By eyecurious | Published: 23 May 2009
It seems like Paris may be having a bit of a revival as a photographic subject with Eggleston’s Paris commission for the Fondation Cartier and now this: mus-mus, the mysterious people behind the @600 project, are back with the @Paris project. As for @600, this project will collect images of Paris by photographers from all [...]
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