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		<title>Life At The Waypoints Of America’s Truckers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Itkoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Hurry Up &#38; Wait" is an ongoing collection of images exploring the obscure and anonymous life of America’s trucking culture.  Driving for a year in our own tractor-trailer, we focus on the banal repetition and periods of isolation from constant movement on the road. These images are a byproduct of the world we entered and a glimpse of the places eighteen-wheelers are allowed. We are constantly faced with the same landscape regardless of location, from moments of obliged waiting in truck stops to backing into the docks of a warehouse. This is where we photograph.]]></description>
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		<title>Construction Firms Built More Than 300,000 Houses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Itkoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alejandro Cartegena focuses his lens on the development in Northern Mexico in a series of projects from which this portfolio is drawn. The rapid modernization and quick pace of pre-fab construction threatens not only local natural resources but also the traditional culture of the region.]]></description>
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		<title>I Was Humbled By People’s Resilience And Hospitality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margo de Beijer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[daily life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus of my photography is the Middle East, on women and children especially. Lebanon in particular is interesting because of its key location as a gate to the Middle East, between the West and the Arab world. I grew up and lived in both Lebanon and the U.S. I am a Lebanese insider who speaks the language, knows the country, and understands its people, but also an outsider who can see Lebanon and its complexities through Western eyes, who can still be intrigued by the dichotomies that are shocking to the Westerner, but unnoticed by the locals.]]></description>
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		<title>Garish Robots, Futuristic Knights And Princesses</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/11/social-behavior-re-defined-in-game-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margo de Beijer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deprived of a past that has been buried by the bulldozers of modernity, a new generation closes up in themselves. They cover, disguise and dress themselves, wearing colored wigs, trying to live the real size of this illusion transmuting it into a fictional world where names, codes and social behaviors are re-invented and re-written in game language.]]></description>
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		<title>Pause For Thought, Even If Just For A Microsecond</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elie Domit</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palestina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turn Right is a term lifted from military vocabulary, and hence a priori it is no wonder that I would choose it as a title for my photo series on Palestinian soldiers. My soldiers, however, are not shown marching or parading. Most of them are not moving at all in front of the camera. Their very stillness reveals the complex resonance of the title which, depending on how one reads the two constituent words, can be taken to mean very different things: a command to turn right, a right or correct change of direction, or the right to change direction. Faced with the simple command: Right Turn!, every soldier and, generally, every human being, would pause for thought, even if just for a microsecond, before reacting. The response, if it leads to an observable external action, would not, however, reveal anything about the inner state of mind. Indeed, in view of the complexities of today’s socio-political environment and of individual histories, what would be the right turn to take? Should one turn to the right, turn around in circles, turn back, or turn away?]]></description>
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		<title>The Intersection Of post-Apartheid Identities</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/02/02/the-intersection-of-post-apartheid-identities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Cuthbert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Interior Relations" focuses on the intersection of post-Apartheid identities via photographic portraiture of black domestic workers who work in homes owned by white South Africans. Although these domestic workers and their employers remain separated by an enormous gulf in race, culture, education and poverty that characterizes much of South Africa today, they are often wedded by an intensely intimate, personal, and awkward interdependence.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 172 &#8211; A False Veil Behind Which Lurks Death</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/01/27/day-172-a-false-veil-behind-which-lurks-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcelo Brodsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photographic oil paintings are hypnotic. The patina of paint is like a false veil behind which lurks death: there is a sense of evasion, as when applying make-up to a corpse prior to viewing. It is a trans-vested genre where the subject is further removed from reality by an additional mask. The photographic image is thus disguised by a technical mixture, but the result is still a hybrid inspiring a particular symbolic tension: that which is intended to be hidden remains present, and what is feigned will never actually happen.]]></description>
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		<title>Moonlit Islanders Of The Paraná River Delta</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/01/22/moonlit-islanders-of-the-parana-river-delta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcelo Brodsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With my photographs, I create imaginary scenarios with real people and situations. I explore the limits of documentary photography, using technical processes to transform the natural perception of light, color, and space. Much like a script in my head, I think of my pictures as slides of unfinished stories. The photographs are carefully planned after days of observation and then come into being with the slow process of a large format camera. Using only the light of the moon and flashlights, it can take from five to ten minutes until this thick darkness sprouts what is secret. My intention is to use photography to occupy a border between document and fiction and imbue the islanders with a strange timelessness. Photography can transform reality and produce a magical view of people and of life.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 168 &#8211; Drugs Fall On Piedra Buena Like Rain</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2010/01/21/day-168-drugs-fall-on-piedra-buena-like-rain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcelo Brodsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent all my life here, at the rhythm of Piedra Buena. This is my world, people know me and respect me as I walk on the street, the walls of the houses are cracking because of their age, like the faces of kids transformed by drugs and violence. I love my neighbourhood, I am proud of it, I will not leave this place, just as the other people do not want to leave, and if they have to, they move no further than 10 blocks away.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 144 &#8211; Beyond The Limits Of Portraiture</title>
		<link>http://www.theblacksnapper.net/2009/12/21/day-144-beyond-the-limits-of-portraiture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Artur Eranosian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The people in these images are cycling on a long and straight daily commuter route. Typically, when we cycle we’re disconnected from the world around us: we dream and ponder whilst mechanically driving along a familiar, somewhat mundane path. Submerged into an 'absorptive mode', people's expressions depict themselves in an honest way – unposed, unconcerned and unaware of either the photographer or the camera.]]></description>
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