photographic essays
Annalisa Natali Murri The Black Line [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] Haiti and Dominican Republic are divided by 360 km of borders, 55 of which are made up of the River Massacre, in the northern region of the island. In October 1937, its waters turned red as blood, when Rafael L. Trujillo- dictator …
Lionel Jusseret Kinderszenen [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] Inspired by Fernand Deligny anti-psychiatric research, the French association J’interviendrais offers kids with deep autism to live collectively in different country houses. Out of the walls, we walk off the path, cross wild torrents or look for abandoned houses to make drawings with color chalks. For them, a break. For …
Haris Kakarouhas Natural Presence Human beings without a particular external identity, but with an esoteric one. All are present in their own truth, expressed in a directly intimate way. I call this kind of image prosopo-graphy. It is coming from the ancient Greek word prosopo which means the essence or natural reality of a person. …
Luis Cobelo Zurumbático [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] ZURUMBÁTICO Someone who acts in a foolish way. A ninny, bewildered, slow, somber, melancholic, enig- matic, half-drunk, half-mad, and with bad temper. A trance-like sensation. Zurumbático is an endless journey to the place where “One hundred years of solitude,” the literary work of the writer …
Kaja Rata Kajnikaj [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] Sometimes it seems to me that everything is going to collapse. The houses, grey from soot, and the broken pavements will fall on the mine corridors below. I live in a small town in Silesia, and at some point there might have been something interesting …
Alain Laboile Quotidian [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] In his giant outdoor studio where he controls space, time and light, Alain Laboile watches his six children. He captures moments of nothing, the unexpected as the expected, the blooming as the outbreak, imagination as banality. His tracking shots put everything on hold: the passage …
Brooklynn Kascel Fear/Loving : A personal narrative of aging, intimacy and separation [ FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2017 – SHORT LIST ] Fear/Loving is a self-reflective body of work, encompassing experiences shared by those closest to me. Fear of abandonment has been a weight I have carried my entire life, emerging into reality during …
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Bayu Wira Handyan Three Weeks, Melancholia [FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2017 – SHORT LIST ] My work presents the questions about existence of life and the things related with solitude. The solitude that causes feelings of anxiety, worry, and fear that led to a melancholia. My pictures are a result of myths that exist in …
Joan Alvado Cuban Muslims, Tropical Faith [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] Cuba is one of the last countries in the world where Islam has entered. Although is still widely unknown, the number of Cubans embracing Islam has constantly increased in the recent years. This growth is strongly linked with the current scenario of …
Karl Mancini Amores Perros In Buenos Aires the dirty waters of Riachuelo delimit borders and people who have their houses in its proximity live in alarming conditions. On one side it is Capital Federal, on the other it is Avellaneda, here Buenos Aires, there the Province. One of the suburbs on the river is …
