Tag: Paolo Woods

  • Avoiding Taxes, Legally, Offshore – The New York Times

    Avoiding Taxes, Legally, Offshore – The New York Times

    Avoiding Taxes, Legally, Offshore A new book looks at the baroque — and sometimes absurd — world of offshore tax havens. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/avoiding-taxes-legally-offshore/ The collapse of Enron, with its web of offshore companies, got Paolo Woods talking with a photo editor. As big as the story was, the editor told him, he was…

  • Getxophoto – Paolo Woods, Pepe – The Eye of Photography

    [contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/09/07/article/159964009/getxophoto-paolo-woods-pepe/”] Getxophoto – Paolo Woods, Pepe – The Eye of Photography In the 1960s, during Kennedy’s term of office, the United States began to export second hand clothes to underdeveloped countries. This activity grew in the 1980s and since then it is millions of tons that are sent each year to the third world,…

  • Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti photograph tax havens in their book, The Heavens.

    Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti photograph tax havens in their book, The Heavens.

    The Crazy Secretive World of Tax Havens It’s hard enough for outsiders to know what’s even going on in tax havens, those notoriously secretive places where taxes are levied at absurdly low… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/03/20/paolo_woods_and_gabriele_galimberti_photograph_tax_havens_in_their_book.html It’s hard enough for outsiders to know what’s even going on in tax havens, those notoriously secretive places where…

  • Portraits of Haitians Wearing Ironic T-shirts Cast-off by Americans

    Portraits of Haitians Wearing Ironic T-shirts Cast-off by Americans

    Portraits of Haitians Wearing Ironic T-shirts Cast-off by Americans There’s more to Institute photographer Paolo Woods’ series Pepe than meets the eye. Teaming up with photographer Ben Depp, the two capture numerous Haitians sporting T-shirts of various declarations. The portraits are lighthearted and yet simultaneously r via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/01/portraits-of-haitians-wearing-ironic-t-shirts-cast-off-by-americans/ There’s more to Institute photographer Paolo…

  • Paolo Woods: Life in Haiti beyond the headlines

    Paolo Woods: Life in Haiti beyond the headlines

    Looking Past the Stereotypes of Haiti Paolo Woods doesn’t want to take a picture you’ve already seen. Although it seems like a given, Woods—who has created photography series around the… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/12/05/paolo_woods_life_in_haiti_beyond_the_headlines_photos.html Paolo Woods doesn’t want to take a picture you’ve already seen. Although it seems like a given, Woods—who has created photography…

  • Showcase: Iran, Beyond Stereotype – Lens

    Showcase: Iran, Beyond Stereotype – Lens

    Showcase: Iran, Beyond Stereotype Having realized “there was much more to Iran than just political turmoil and religious fundamentalism,” Paolo Woods set out to capture it, as Eirini Vourloumis reports. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/showcase-84/ “I knew I was on the wrong path photographically,” Paolo Woods recalled. “I had first started photographing by what I had…