‘You look at it and you just feel better’: this year’s Photoville festival highlights

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According to The Guardian’s report, ‘You look at it and you just feel better’: this year’s Photoville festival highlights, The annual New York-based display of photography contains moving pictures from behind bars and a revealing look at trans lives back in the 1990s For the 15th installment of the annual Photoville festival, which sees more than 90 exhibits of photographic portfolios from all around the world, festival co-founder Sam Barzilay is thinking about apples – specifically the bizarre and at times cosmic-looking ones in the exhibit Old Apples. “I was so delighted it got selected,” he enthusiastically told me. “It’s the most whimsical thing we have, it’s about apples and how there are no two apples in nature that are the same.” Continue reading…

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