photographic essays
Tara Wray Too Tired for Sunshine Too Tired for Sunshine is a photobook that confronts my own struggles with depression by documenting the beauty, darkness, and absurdity of everyday life. The images were made largely in my adopted home of Vermont between 2011-now. They offer a deeply personal interpretation of the Green Mountain State, juxtaposing …
João Pina 46750 In 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil started the process of an enormous transformation process to host both the 2014 FIFA world cup, and the 2016 summer Olympic games. The economy was favorable, due to the surge of commodity prices which Brazil vastly produces. The country turned its eyes toward a huge investment …
Karim El Maktafi Hayati [ EPF 2017 – YOUNG TALENT AWARD / FUJIFILM FINALIST ] Hayati (“my life” in Arabic) is a visual journal realized exclusively with a smartphone. Hayati reflects on my identity as a second-generation Italian. Son of immigrants, born and raised in Italy, balance between two realities that at first sight …
Alexey Shlyk The Appleseed Necklace [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] Every time I think of my country (Belarus), I am reminded of how wonderfully resourceful and creative the people are. Probably those qualities were inherited – together with tolerance – from the Soviet period. As I was born in 1986, I was a citizen …
Jordan Gale It Is What It Is [ EPF 2017 – YOUNG TALENT AWARD / FUJIFILM FINALIST ] I was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; the only child to a single mother who since before I was born has struggled with a combination of drug abuse and poverty. When I was nine, our house …
Jeroen Bocken The Celebrated Remedy for the Cure of Disorder [ EPF 2017 – YOUNG TALENT AWARD / FUJIFILM RUNNER UP ] With his interest in the glorifying and influential nature of photographs and images, Jeroen Bocken investigates the increasingly prominent role of hyper-idealised aesthetics in today’s world. Bocken is fascinated by natural science, …
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Manon Lanjouère Bleu Glacé [ EPF 2017 – YOUNG TALENT AWARD / FUJIFILM FINALIST ] Bleu Glacé is a cabinet of curiosity, a “scientist” study synthetically rebuilding the Icelandic landscape. The use of synthetic material is to question our daily use of plastics, resins and polymers in an exponential way, and how it can change …
Ian Hananto Futile [ EPF 2017 – YOUNG TALENT / FUJIFILM RUNNER UP ] The project is a reflection on my question about happiness. People said that everybody needs a dream, so they could see something to pursue in life, and a dream was one of the sources of happiness. On the way pursuing their …
Joel Karppanen Finnish Pastoral [ EPF 2017 – YOUNG TALENT AWARD / FUJIFILM FINALIST ] Georg Simmel wrote about the relieving power of the ruins. According to him the ruins help us to appreciate everything “incomplete, shapeless and what shatter the frames”. Finnish Pastoral is a photo series that offers its viewers new means …
Mario Wezel Do You Sometimes Dream of America? [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] “The cinema and TV are America’s reality.” – Jean Baudrillard Growing up as a european in the 90’s, America was like a big brother that had already moved out of the house. His heroic stories had surpassed his absence, his …
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