Year: 2014

Max Cabello Orcasitas – Chungui’s Grief (The Wedding of Grief and Carnival)

Max Cabello Orcasitas Chungui’s Grief (The Wedding of Grief and Carnival) ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT In the district of Chungui, Ayacucho, Peru, there’s a foundational myth that strikes people’s imagination the most. From the countless versions that exist, this is one of them: when Dominican monks arrived to the district during the first part of …

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Jordi Pizarro – Disappearing Lands: The “Human Face” of Climate Change in the Sundarbans, India

Jordi Pizarro Disappearing Lands: The “Human Face” of Climate Change in the Sundarbans, India [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ‘Disappearing Lands’ sets out to capture the ‘human face’ of climate change. The delicate balance that has for many centuries existed in the Sundarbans between land, air, and sea, is today under threat, and in certain …

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Meeri Koutaniemi – Taken

Meeri Koutaniemi Taken [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] Taken is a long term work aiming to a book, which has a diversity of stories from circumcised women who share their struggles in daily life resulting from an incident that caused irreversible mental and physical consequences for the rest of their lives. Female genital cutting has …

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Birte Kaufmann – The Travellers – Ireland’s Biggest Minority Group

Birte Kaufmann The Travellers – Ireland’s Biggest Minority Group [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT My ongoing photography project “The Travellers”, gives insight into the everyday life of Ireland’s largest minority group. This group has a nomadic origin, stemming from the tradition of migrant workers. As this tradition no longer exists, the …

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Alessandro Penso – Lost Generation : This is the Story of Young, Unaccompanied Migrants in Greece

Alessandro Penso Lost Generation: This is the Story of Young, Unaccompanied Migrants in Greece [ EPF 2014 WINNER ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Hundreds, thousands, hidden in the abandoned industrial areas that surround the port of Patras or in the old disused train station in the centre of Corinth. I found them in the “urban …

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EPF 2014 – the winners

        EPF 2014 WINNERS   Alessandro Penso, winner – $10,000 Birte Kaufmann, runner-up – $3,000 Kiana Hayeri, honorable mention     EPF 2014 FINALISTS   (in alphabetical order – out of a total of 1135 entries) Laia Abril Dominic Bracco II Max Cabello Orcasitas Marco Casino Alejandro Cegarra Stephen Dock Ditte Haarlov …

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