photographic essays
Elena Chernyshova Days of Night – Nights of Day Norilsk, in northern Russia, is (after Murmansk) the second-largest city within Arctic Circle, with a population of over 177,000. It is also one of the most polluted cities in the world. 2 million tons of gas rejected every year in the atmosphere, 100,000 ha of tundra …
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EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER FUND 2017 – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Burn Magazine revolves around the EPF. Our most important curatorial contribution to the oftentimes chaotic landscape of photography today. By choosing a jury whose lifetimes have been spent in looking at photographs and making photographs, we try to give our Burn readers a distilled version of the best work …
Every now and then we like to feature our @burndiary artists during their takeover. This is Lea Savvides @lea.savvides from Leicester, UK.
Jason Vinson Holi India is a hard place to shoot. Not because there is nothing to shoot, but because there is so much to shoot. The country is filled to the brim with colorful buildings and interesting people. It can almost feel like shooting fish in a barrel. Go during the Holi festival and things …
Abhishek Basu Labyrinth The mind is quite a labyrinth, much like the night—a journey into the depths of which these images attempt to dig deep into. When suddenly faced with a vast, dark and intrinsically violent world along with the godforsaken challenge of trying to find one’s place in it, questions of identity followed by …
Ruth McDowall Malaiku I am openly embraced by three young ladies running up to me greeting me as Aunty Ruth. During five years living in northern Nigeria, I have seen many haunted faces, but these girls look different, haunted and also broken. I wanted to photograph them looking like the strong resilient survivors they are, …
Video by Frank Overton Brown III Emerging Photographer Fund EPF 2016 Recipient is Annie Flanagan with her essay “Deafening Sound” FujiFilm/Young Talent Award 2016 Recipient is Aleksander Raczynski with his essay “Views”
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi Pride Uganda Between August 5th and 9th, 2015, the LGBT community in Uganda held their fourth Pride celebration despite the country being one of the worst in the world for LGBT rights. Moreover, the turnout was larger than ever before. As with previous Pride celebrations, the events were held in “secret”: …
Stefano Schirato Where Shall I Go? “I don’t think anyone will survive,” said Schiavone, repentant, in his secret testimony. “In Casal di Principe, Castel Volturno, and so on, the inhabitants are all at risk of dying from cancer within twenty years.” He was former treasurer of Casalesi clan controlling the territory in the so-called “Land …
14&15 Mobile Photographers #1415IRAN A photographic book and a permanent observatory on today’s Iran, made by Iranian photographers. Using their smartphones, they tell the story of the daily life of a country caught between modernity and tradition; the richness of a collective memory in continuous growing Iran, which is one of those countries that we …
