French Photo n°3

By Théo Gosselin

Deliberately cinematic, Gosselin's photography reveals friends in the act of escaping from their regular lives into newly enticing and perilous modes of existence, ever in search of the persistent though elusive idea of freedom."

Born near Le Havre in Normandy in 1990, Theo Gosselin grew up with the sea, the wind, the forest, and the sound of electric guitars, echoing in the deserted streets of this grey city from the north of France. Fond of drawing, music, and cinema, he graduated in 2012 as a graphic designer in Amiens. 

He started photography in 2007, and it became his reason to live. He loves capturing simple life, love, good and bad moments, his friends and his adventures. He is an eternal traveller trying to find peace on the roads of  Europe and the USA. He shares his way of life with people he loves. 
In August 2012, he made his first full-length film, "Goodbye Horses", a road movie in which he is an actor with four friends. They bought a van in NY city and they drove 20 000 km across the USA to LA.
 
Young, free and immortal.


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French Photo n°2

By Henry Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the street photography or life reportage style that was coined The Decisive Moment that has influenced generations of photographers who followed.

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French Photo n°1

By JR

E JR, born February 22, 19831, is a French contemporary artist. He exhibits his photographs in the street, calling it "the biggest art gallery in the world." His work combines art and action and deals with commitment, freedom, identity and limits.

After finding a camera in the Paris metro in 2001, he started exploring the world of European urban art and followed those who express their message on walls. Then he began to work on the vertical limits, watching people and slices of life in forbidden basements and rooftops of the capital.

JR does not consider himself as a street artist nor a photographer. For his projects, he uses photos but also videos or canvas. 

"I want to bring art in unlikely places and create large projects that involves various communities and forces us to question the world."

Photo3: Turkish Photographer Uygar TAYLAN

The piano by Uygar Taylan

Photo2: Turkish Photographer Uygar TAYLAN

The Ferry by Uygar Taylan

Photo1: Turkish Photographer Tuna AKCAY

Kids and Bread by Tuna Akcay.

Bulgarian Photographer: METODI IVANOV

The Perfect Couple

Bulgarian Photographer: EVGENI DINEV

Above the Sky

Bulgarian Photographer: ARTIN SHAHBAZYAN

Holiday

Italian Photographer: MATTEO SETZU

Matteo Setzu was born  on Jan 25,1977, in Cagliari. His love for photography dates back to his childhood, camera was his favourite toy. After his higher education he moved to Spain where he lived for 7 years. His interest in photography raised because every time he came back to Sardinia on holiday he wanted to capture the moments of tradition in his island to take them with him to Spain. He became famous thanks to the web where he began to publish his photos. He is well known as " the photographer of  the Carnivals". The subjects of his photos are mainly Sardinian traditions and local festivals.
He had an important experience in Portugal: a photo feature during the Holy Week  in Idanha-a-Nova district and at  "VI Festival de la Mascara Iberica" ( the 6st Festival of Iberian Mask). He also cooperates to some Sardinia websites.
Below this description you can find more information and you can either look at his photos

http://nonvogliolavorare.it/matteo-setzu-fotografo/

http://iosardegnaturismo.blogspot.it/2012/11/obiettivo-sardegna-con-matteo-setzu.html

 http://www.paradisola.it/foto-sardegna/fotografi/3118-matteo-setzu

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Matteo-Setzu-fotografo-per-passione/154295901266090

Italian Photographer: PAOLO SIMONAZZI

Paolo Simonazzi was born in Reggio Emilia in 1961. He started his career as a photographer in 1990. He works on an  anthropological photograph projects after  an initial interest in travel photos. His first collection Attimi d'Africa was displayed in Italy and then in Paris, in 1996 ,  at the Mois bis de la photo. He captured the emotions in the pictures taken during the World Youth Day (JMJ)  and those photos were displayed in Rome in 2000. Exhibitions of his photos are at the “Musèe de la Photographie” in Charleroi (Belgium), at the “ Bibliotéque Nationale de France” in Paris and in several Italian Museums.

Italian Photographer: FERDINANDO SCIANNA

Ferdinando Scianna

Italian, born in  1943
Ferdinando Scianna started taking photographs in the 1960s while studying literature, philosophy and art history at the University of Palermo. It was then that he began to photograph the Sicilian people systematically. Feste Religiose in Sicilia (1965) included an essay by the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia, and it was the first of many collaborations with famous writers.
Scianna moved to Milan in 1966. The following year he started working for the weekly magazine L'Europeo, first as a photographer, then from 1973 as a journalist. He also wrote on politics for Le Monde Diplomatique and on literature and photography for La Quinzaine Littéraire.
In 1977 he published Les Siciliens in France and La Villa Dei Mostri in Italy. During this period Scianna met Henri Cartier-Bresson, and in 1982 he joined Magnum Photos. He entered the field of fashion photography in the late 1980s. At the end of the decade he published a retrospective, Le Forme del Caos (1989).
Scianna returned to exploring the meaning of religious rituals with Viaggio a Lourdes (1995), then two years later he published a collection of images of sleepers - Dormire Forse Sognare (To Sleep, Perchance to Dream). His portraits of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges were published in 1999, and in the same year the exhibition Niños del Mundo displayed Scianna's images of children from around the world.
In 2002 Scianna completed Quelli di Bagheria, a book on his home town in Sicily, in which he tries to reconstruct the atmosphere of his youth through writings and photographs of Bagheria and the people who live there.

Awards
1966       Prix Nadar (for Feste Religiose in Sicilia), France