photographic essays
Ronghui Chen Freezing Land [ EPF 2018 FINALIST ] We’re used to thinking of Chinese cities in the context of growth, but the country’s northeast region is an exception. Bordering Russia and North Korea, the region, with ample natural resources, was the first to develop heavy industries in the 1960s and prospered for decades. There …
Hajime Kimura Mass/Remains [ EPF 2018 FINALIST ] Mass/Remains is an on-going project that tries to discover the movement of the football histories during the 90s in former Yugoslavia which ended up to influence Japanese football milestone and could be connected to compose the current geopolitics that has been reconstructed by the societies of former …
Sanja Jugovic Burns Fugue [ EPF 2018 FINALIST ] In 1980, Josip Broz Tito died. Yugoslavia followed him a decade later. My family emigrated to Australia in 1985, before the war (so this project is not about the war). I have no recollection of the plane journey there. I found Australia unwelcoming, but lived in comfort …
Felipe Romero Beltrán Magdalena [ EPF 2018 FINALIST ] In the 1960s, an armed-conflict began in Colombia between mafias, paramilitary groups and armed guerrillas such as the FARC movement, who were all fighting to influence the decisions made by the government. The war ended in 2016, when the government and the FARC signed an historical …
Tabitha Barnard was the recipient of the 2018 Fujifilm/Young Talent Award for this essay. This honor recognizes photographers 25 and under, granting them $10,000 from Fujifilm to continue the work. Tabitha Barnard Cult of Womanhood [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2018 WINNER – $10,000 ] Growing up in a small town in rural Maine, my contact …
Shadman Shahid was the recipient of the 2018 Emerging Photographer Fund and was granted $10,000 for this essay. Burn Magazine revolves around the EPF and it is our most important curatorial contribution to the oftentimes chaotic landscape of photography today. Most importantly, our mission is to give recognition to the finest emerging authors out there …
The Emerging Photographer Fund 2018 Shadman Shahid No Quarter EPF 2018 RECIPIENT – $10,000 No quarter speaks about the victims of domestic violence in Bangladesh. It takes the form of a docu-fiction about Alo and Sagor, a couple who have been in an abusive relationship for more than 20 years. Stay tuned for the full …
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Sima Choubdarzadeh Fear I was seven years old when I got scared for the first time. I was getting back from school when my friend told me: “Did you know that if you reveal your hair out of your scarf, God will punish you by hanging you from it?” When I was 26, after all …
Oded Wagenstein Like Last Year’s Snow inside Siberia’s isolated community of forgotten women In the remote village of Yar-Sale in Northern Siberia, lives a group of elderly women. They were once part of a nomadic community of reindeer herders. However, in their old age, they spend most of their days in seclusion, isolated from the world they loved and their community. While men …
Alfio Tommasini Via Lactea The dairy farmers of Via Lactea are part of a story that began with a genetic mutation in their ancestors, shortly after the first agricultural settlements in Switzerland. A change that allowed them to tolerate lactose even at an adult age, thus facilitating their survival in these harsh mountainous lands, often …
