photographic essays

photographic essays

Michele Palazzi – Finisterrae

Michele Palazzi Finisterrae [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ]   “Finisterrae” means so much as: end of the road. That is more or less how it feels when moving around Southern Portugal or, more precisely, the region that in the ancient Roman era was known as “Lusitania.” The residents of this outskirt of the European …

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© Sebastian Liste

Sebastian Liste – The Refuge

  Sebastian Liste The Refuge [ EPF 2017 – HONORABLE MENTION ] When I was seventeen I fell in love with Laura. Then I met her family and the way they lived fascinated me. Twenty years ago, Laura’s parents, Anne and Ben, came to a small village in the Spanish countryside. There they began to …

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Lily Zoumpouli – Selinophilia

Lily Zoumpouli Selinophilia [ EPF 2017 – FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD RUNNER UP ]   Capturing glances of the moments that passed us by, in times when we were maybe too young to realise that they weren’t there to stay until eternity would have torn us apart. But still old enough to know they were worth …

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A bear's skin is crucified on a house. It is the skin of the insomniac bear that came at night and ate the dogs, attacked people, and got into the house through the window. A married couple climbed the roof in panic and waited until the morning to neutralize the beast. They waited until morning because it is pitch-dark at night. There is only electricity in this settlement for 14 hours a day, in the morning and the evening. There is no central power supply service, only a small diesel-driven station. Katangsky District, Irkutsky region. Russia, 2016 – © Elena Anosova

Elena Anosova – Out of the Way

Elena Anosova Out of the Way [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] The project was created on the far away territories of the Extreme North of Russia, where bad accessibility and isolation, special relationship with nature, and following the century-long ways of life involve unique mythology of the region where the fictional things are very …

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Marta Giaccone – Systems of Harmony

Marta Giaccone Systems of Harmony [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] Systems of Harmony is a personal portrait of 2016 suburban America. In the 19th century a large number of Europeans and Americans went to great lengths to establish small utopian communities throughout America. They were preachers, social reformers, industrialists, philosophers, anarchists, journalists and socialist …

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