photographic essays
Marius Ionut Scarlat From East to West [ EPF 2018 SHORTLIST ] Romania generates the greatest migratory flow of the European Union. After the revolution of ’89 and the death of Ceausescu, the Romanians were anxious for an immediate improvement. However this improvement did not happen and everything was even worse. The opening of the …
Juan Pablo Bellandi The Tale Nobody Tells [ EPF 2018 SHORTLIST ] My job as a Photographer of the pólice in Venezuela for more than two years has taught me through crude lessons to see myself as a policeman, with the particularity that I possess a camera. Venezuela faces an extremely deep crisis; absurd and …
Ignacio Colo At the Same Time [ EPF 2018 FINALIST ] Eduardo and Miguel Portnoy are two 50-year-old twins from Buenos Aires, Argentina. They live together, they have never been apart since they were born, and today they are all alone in this world. Their family passed away with time: their parents, their only brother, also …
Massimo Nicolaci I Carusi Sicily, for its past history and for its multiple influences and contaminations, is a place that preserves and sends forward a long tradition of faith, linked to Christianity, which has a large pagan and theatrical part connected to the populations that live there. The man, the Sicilian, needs a hold on …
Nicholas Constant (Untitled) [ 2018 FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD SHORTLIST ] My Grandmother’s father and brother were both beheaded by the Japanese during the occupation of Malaysia from 1941 to 1945 during WWII for being Chinese. This meant she had to flee the country with her mother at the age of 3. With this …
Mathias Depardon Gold Rivers [ EPF 2018 SHORTLIST ] The history of the Mesopotamian rivers and their presence in our own cultural history may be one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world, spanning some, 10,000 years of world heritage. In the 4th millennium BCE, the first literate societies emerged in Southern Mesopotamia, …
Sébastien Van Malleghem Nordic Noir An artistic residence in Norway (Halsnoy Cloister, 2013) ignites a passion with the North. Iceland, then Scandinavia further fuels the flame, revealing a personal confrontation with an endless space, a passionate and brutal encounter. Captivated by the Scandinavian lands from a residence in Norway, Sébastien Van Malleghem has since advanced …
Andrew Sullivan Endangered Species Mexico’s murder rate went up 16% in the first half of 2018, a grim statistic that suggested this year would be the bloodiest in the country’s history. Time magazine approximated that someone was killed every 15 minutes in May. Where I live in Mexico has the reputation of being a …
Yorgos Yatromanolakis The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings ‘The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings’ arose from my unforeseen return to my homeland and my residence there for four years. Isolated in the countryside of the island, I was constantly confronted with my traumatic …
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M.H. Frøslev Unsettled City Unsettled City is a journey of a human in a metropolis. It portrays despair and love in a place where life at times can be very uncertain. The book is a personal depiction of a claustrophobic environment with the cityscape as framework, captured in the cities of Saint Petersburg …
