Paul Kooiker – Eggs and Rarities

Paul Kooiker – Eggs and RaritiesPaul Kooikers encyclopaedia of life in 164 images. This ambitious but utopian project reads like a sampler of photographic genres: landscape, nude, still life, etc. To achieve this, Kooiker often uses clichs more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media. Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work. Intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective

as its name suggests

Clarissa Pinheiro

Gregory Halpern focuses on the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe

As she was devoting herself to her acting lessons

prostitutes

Over the last five years

to make visible to all the diversity and the future of this living heritage

the sheets’ gentle movements

Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work

200 × 270 mm

des gravures

“In 2011