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Michal Chelbin: A Life full of contradictions

Blurring the lines between childhood and adolescence, between fact and fiction, Michal Chelbin's work attempts to "exist in the space between the odd and the ordinary."

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Barry Crosthwaite
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Book Review • Portrait

Autoportrait – Samuel Fosso

Renowned for his penetrative self-portraiture which explores pan-African identity, photographer Samuel Fosso has led to his epithet ‘the man of a thousand faces’, is widely regarded as one of Africa’s most important contemporary artists.

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Profile • Black & White

Ruth Bernhard

Deemed “The finest photographer of the nude form” by her friend and contemporary Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, renowned for her striking monochrome compositions, was one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century.

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