Polka magazine 12 Polka is a magazine of photojournalism.
From photography to writing history, to feel a time, to write the words. From
humanistic photography, intense and realistic.
A photograph - Testimony.
Polka is a magazine where photography has meaning and photographer presence.
Polka some ways, recalls the heyday of Paris-Match which subjects rubbed thin sections more difficult, while promoting the image.
In this Spring issue, we go so the discovery of a Pakistani painter,
Iqbal Hussain, whose paintings of women are controversial (his models are prostitutes unveiled) to a "story accusing" (or how the photograph taken by Ed Or two child soldiers in Somalia will cause a scandal in the U.S. States).
ensued an article on Marc Ribout, poetry, compassion and tenderness of his gaze.
Polka then discusses the revolution in the Arab world.
Although things are changing rapidly, this issue remains relevant for understanding (support) these mass movements and avoid the "clash of civilizations."
In this regard, the editorial
Alain Genestar is just critical of our western governments. A moving tribute
is also made to Mohamed Bouazizi, seller Tunisian who was slain Dec. 17, 2010 to protest against the injustices he was a victim (by Abdellah Taia).
We travel again: the French schools of Kabul, Afghanistan (Esteqlal, Malalai) in Haiti, where despite the declarations of the international community, nothing changes. We turn
testimony on poverty in France to a surprising story about a ghetto black riders Philadelphia and continue on our reading of Pina Bausch not to continue with a tribute to Oscar Niemeyer, one of the builders and architect Brasillia the French Communist Party headquarters in Paris.
few pages each time provoking curiosity, challenge, or move him.
Particularly rich and dense in the themes, this issue of spring 2011 ends with excerpts from the book by Stéphane Hessel,
indignation you! on Course!
Polka is a quarterly magazine but also a gallery
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Publication Manager: Alain Genestar.
Project Family launched by Edward and Adelie Genestar.
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