photographic essays
[slidepress gallery=’lauraeltantawy-ferventspirits’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Laura El-Tantawy Fervent Spirits play this essay Fervent Spirits is about faith. Believing in the invisible. A power only heard of, but never quiet seen. I started this project in the holy Land in Jerusalem, inspired by a 60-year-old conflict that has …
i have been suggesting recently that it might be easier for discussion here if all comments came under Dialogue…this seems to be the right time to give it a try….as with all things, it is timing, timing and timing…. when i read Laura El Tantawy’s comment under the Chiara Tocci “selected single”, it seemed perhaps …
Enlightened by Chiara Tocci In the Sunna, the other major holy Muslim book together with the Quran, the pictures of living beings are condemned. “Whoever makes a picture will be punished by Allah. He (the picture maker) will be ordered to breathe life into the picture, but he will not be able to do …
Auschwitz by Stephen Burrows Auschwitz in the snow as the debate whether the site should be kept in its time locked state or left to nature is being considered. Website: Stephen Burrows
Felix Mars Peterson and his mother nine hours and ten minutes after coming into this world. Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA , 1/29/09 9:34pm. Felix was born to Mascha Kroenlein and myself after an arduous 30 hour labor and a vacuum assisted delivery (he was face up and coming at a strange angle). He …
Self Portrait in Bathroom #1 by Noah McLaurine Website: Noah McLaurine
[slidepress gallery=’lisawiltse-teenpregnancy’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Lisa Wiltse Teen Pregnancy play this essay “The one who got me pregnant was my cousin. He is not my boyfriend. In one bed, there are three of us…I am the only girl beside two boys…The one who got me pregnant is …
Dmitry by Max Sher Dmitry, a student of the Vyksa Religious School, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia, poses for picture in his class. An Orthodox religious school prepares boys for entering the seminaries and trains girls as church choir singers. There is a heated debate in Russia these days on whether to include religious subjects …
[slidepress gallery=’jameschance-livingwith’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls James Chance Living With The Dead: Manila’s North Cemetery play this essay In the middle of the bustling Philippine city of Manila, home to almost 11 million people, lies the North Cemetery. Founded in 1904, it is the final resting place for …
i read carefully all of your comments on our last two essayists, Michael Christopher Brown and James Chance….both received almost unanimous “thumbs up” votes from the readers here on the essays presented…both are working in the documentary style of “bearing witness”, and yet this seems to be a good time to point out how quite …
