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Transformation: Vivre-Réagir

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For the con­test “Trans­for­ma­tion: Vivre-Réagir“1, Julien Las­sort and Matthieu Bur­lot explored the human face, the most exposed and per­sonal part of the human body. Their dynamic por­trayal of “1000 et une faces“2 is a mosaic of por­traits and emo­tions that plays off of the power of faces seen close up. Julien Fargo com­posed the melody that encap­su­lates the film.

  1. In eng­lish, “Trans­for­ma­tion: Live-React” [↩]
  2. In eng­lish, “1000 and one faces” [↩]

Photomonth 2008 Photos

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Sweet. Two of my pho­tos got selected to be shown at Pho­tomonth 2008 in London.

pho­tomonth 08 the east lon­don pho­tog­ra­phy fes­ti­val is the largest pho­tog­ra­phy fes­ti­val in the UK with over 100 exhi­bi­tions and events tak­ing place in more than 60 gal­leries and spaces and fea­tur­ing up to 500 pho­tog­ra­phers. This year there is a photo­fair in Spi­tal­fields Traders Mar­ket and the photo-open and the pho­tomonth sem­i­nar are at the Dray Walk Gallery, Old Tru­man Brew­ery. Tom Hunter gives the pho­tomonth lec­ture and the port­fo­lio reviews take place at the Whitechapel. The pho­tomonth work­shops will be found at Lon­don Met­ro­pol­i­tan Uni­ver­sity and shoot expe­ri­ence con­duct a pho­to­graphic trea­sure hunt around Spi­tal­fields. pho­tomonth 08 is also link­ing with Chobi Mela V in Dhaka Bangladesh.

This year, Pho­tomonth has invited the Flickr com­mu­nity under the theme “free­dom”. The end result was an open call to the Flickr com­mu­nity to enter their pho­tos to the Free­dom 2008 group.

Any­ways, here are the ones that were selected:

Rockin' Rooftop
Departing San Francisco

Pho­tos from the group will be on dis­play at the Dray Walk Gallery (part of The Old Tru­man Brew­ery on Brick Lane in Lon­don) between Octo­ber 29th and Novem­ber 9th1. Please do let me know if you hap­pen to see them. Maybe even try to take a photo with it? haha. Awesome.

  1. More info about the show­ing at this Flickr Blog post. [↩]

Mr. Hyphen 2008

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Mr. Hyphen 2008, orig­i­nally uploaded by stechico.

I had the oppor­tu­nity to shoot last night’s Mr. Hyphen 2008, a sig­na­ture event by Hyphen Mag­a­zine.

Back by pop­u­lar demand, Hyphen and the Oak­land Asian Cul­tural Cen­ter (OACC) present the 3rd annual Mr. Hyphen com­pe­ti­tion on Octo­ber 4, 2008, cel­e­brat­ing the men of the Asian Amer­i­can com­mu­nity. Each year, Hyphen and OACC cel­e­brate Asian Amer­i­can men who devote them­selves to wor­thy com­mu­nity causes. While struc­tured like a pageant with rounds of tal­ent, fash­ion and Q&A, Mr. Hyphen turns stereo­types on their heads in front of a sold-out crowd. Strik­ing a blow for equal-opportunity all-in-good-fun ogling, Mr. Hyphen is an energy-filled evening of fun and char­ity. Rounds will be decided alter­nately by an audi­ence vote and by an illus­tri­ous panel of judges. The man who is crowned Mr. Hyphen wins a $1000 cash dona­tion to his non­profit organization.

Hosted by writer/performer: Saman­tha Chanse

Con­grat­u­la­tions to all of the par­tic­i­pants, espe­cially to Runner-up Mau­rice Seaty and Mr. Hyphen 2008 him­self, Aris­to­tle Gar­cia (pic­tured above respec­tively). Spe­cial thanks go to Flickrite/Vaindeer/Hyphen Magazine’s Lan­lian for giv­ing me the oppor­tu­nity to check it out and pho­to­graph. It was both enter­tain­ing and edu­ca­tional. Good times.

Hyphen Magazine’s Mr. Hyphen 2008
@ Oak­land Asian Cul­tural Cen­ter
388 9th Street, Suite 290
Oak­land, CA 94607
(510) 637‑0455

Declare Yourself Public Service Announcements

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Declare Your­self teamed up with pho­tog­ra­phers Mark Lid­dell and David LaChapelle along with Jes­sica Alba, Christina Aguil­era, Jonathan Ben­nett, LaToya Lon­don and Andre 3000 to bring some PSAs to get peo­ple to vote this upcom­ing November’s Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tions.

Mean­while, if I may say, the cam­paign also has a great tagline: “Only you can silence your­self.” Awe­some. These are great.

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