ARTICLES BY MATHIEU BERENHOLC
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 HARRI PECCINOTTI
Every photographer who’s made a career out of pressing shutter buttons in front of beautiful women owes a great debt to Harri Peccinotti. He was the first person to consistently capture the sexuality of everyday activities on camera: subversively pleasing sights like girls carefully sucking on popsicles, close-ups of butts on bike seats, and California beach bunnies unknowingly shot with telephoto lenses...
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  LIFE IN THE JUNGLE
Calais is the closest point in France to the United Kingdom. Besides that distinction, it's basically sort of a shithole. And besides that distinction, Calais is also where thousands of refugees to France from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Somalia congregate in a massive, sprawling camp of improvised shelters. The refugees and the press alike call this provisional home "the jungle." It's a filthy place that sits in a grimy forest between a chemical factory and the harbor. It's an ideal base from which to plan an illegal emigration to Engl...
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 FRENCHMAN ANGELO DI MARCO BELIEVES IN MORAL ABSOLUTES
Angelo di Marco takes random human-interest stories and turns them into horrorific masterpieces of draftsmanship. French people are crazy about his work. His drawings have been in pretty much every newspaper over there during the past five decades, as well as on billboards and in countless magazines...
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 GROSS!
Collecting Hair and Then Collecting Stories About the Hair That Was CollectedThis guy named Louis B. has been amassing a hair collection for six years. He claims to have upward of 400 bags of the stuff. He started when he was working in a salon and he hasn't stopped since because… actually we have no fucking idea why he does this...
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 A MEXICAN IN... PARIS
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Vice: Where are you from?
Abraham: I grew up in a neighborhood that wasn't even a neighborhood-it was land taken by immigrants. It was called Colonia Ajusco because you could see the Ajusco Mountains. It was like a moon landscape, just lava and rocks. The govern...
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 MASTER OF MINUTIA
Martin Monestier Really Knows His ShitYou've probably never heard of Martin Monestier, but he is literally one of the best people ever. He used to be a photojournalist but after taking his millionth photo, he went through a bizarre phase which involved boarding himself up in his flat and contemplating suicide for two years. After this c...
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 NATIONAL FRONT SOUP KITCHEN
All White on the NightRoger Bonnivard runs a bird shop in a popular paris neighbourhood. Roger loves his pets, and he also loves people. He was a militant for the MNR (National Front dissident party) when he founded the SDF association. SDF is the French acronym for "homeless" but for Roger and his wife Odile it means "S...
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 SUICIDE GIRLS
On The Trail To Absolutely NothingWhen two 14-year-old French girls jumped to their death from the 17th storey of a tower block in Paris, leaving a note that said "Life Isn't Worth It", I spent the next week following the huge media storm that blew up around them....
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