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Photographic Workshop with Michael Ackerman
Napoli, New Years' Eve 2011
From December 28, 2011 to January 5, 2012
"The woman passed me by in an instant. This picture changed my way of considering what i do. It made me want to get rid of any superfluous information. To get rid of the street. Get rid of anything that got in the way of an impossible purity". M.A.
Michael Ackerman born in Tel Aviv in 1967, at the age of seven he moved to New York with his family. He has been a professional photographer since 1990. He began working in the streets, in nightclubs and in the dock area of New York. In 1993 he made his first visit to India shooting in Calcutta, New Delhi and Benares. In 1994 he returned to India to continue his work in Benares. In 1996 he worked in New York on Times Square and in 1997 he began a project called "Smoke" with a singer called Benjamin in Cabbagetown, Atlanta. In 1998 the photographs he took in India earned him the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in the young photographers category and in 1999 "End Time City" published by Nathan Delpire and Scalo received the Nadar prize as the best photographic book of the year. In the following years he worked in Poland, in Marseilles, in Naples and in Havana. In 2001 he published his second book "Fiction" with Delpire. In 2009 he won the Prix SCAM Roger Pic. His last book "Half life", published by Delpire in 2010, is the achievement of a work which began in 2001, after the publishing of "Fiction". From 1997 to the present day he has had many exhibitions throughout the world, among which have been the individual ones in New York, Berlin, Milan, Belgrade, Munich, Arles, Cologne, Krakow, Heidelberg, Sète, Strasbourg and Paris. M.A. lives in Berlin and is represented by VU' Gallery in Paris.
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