photographic essays
Zoe Childerley Dinosaur Dust This is an intimate portrait of a peripheral and charismatic community of the high desert, struggling to find meaning and moments of grace in a hostile environment. This community is scattered around the edge of a National Park drawn by the promise of the last wilderness. The work explores the encounters …
Nicola Lo Calzo Cham Culture is a complex thing, especially when it is emergent from centuries of violence, oppression and bondage. The Atlantic slave trade moved millions of bodies and reordered the geographies of peoples and their customs. There are as many histories as there were individuals who lived and suffered, were bought and sold. …
Alfredo Chiarappa Railroad Station Platform Zero: Idomeni. My photo storytelling shows what life is actually like for migrants and refugees within the Idomeni camp in Greece. Idomeni is regarded as one of the worst refugee camps on the European migrant trail, which has increased in size following the decision of Fyrom to close its border. …
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Tamara Dean About Face – “Are you a boy or a girl?” A series of portraits of people with androgynous qualities, which for me symbolize a universal sense of humanity without gender defining the individual. Meng – I have a really cool paternal grandmother – she’s a Buddhist nun, has a shaved head, and really …
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Hiroshi Okamoto Recruit “I want to die.” During February 2013, this e-mail was sent by my best friend in my university, who was doing his job-hunting then. In Japan, more than half a million students participate in job-hunting simultaneously every year. Students go into this frantic game with their desire and anxiety for their future …
Aaron Blum A Guide To Folk Taxonomy Appalachia pulls at me like a haunted memory. It is a place of nebulous forests, moss blankets and dark corners where secrets are kept and folklore thrives. Human nature moves us to classify the things that make up our world. We describe our culture and surroundings through self-made …
Simon Móricz-Sabján Mud Country The number of dirt roads is amazingly high in Hungary. Many people live habitually and inevitably along dirt roads in the rural of Bács Kiskun, Békés and Csongrád counties. While in Western Europe 96 percent of public roads are paved, this ratio in Hungary is only 38 percent. The difference is …
Bill Garrett Sometimes you meet somebody who changes your life. A lead character in the play of your adventures. A like minded soul who gets you, identifies with you,and flips a life switch. Such a man for me was W.E. “Bill” Garrett who passed on this week to the land of editor photographers …
Mark Schacter West The creative process is a mystery. The sharpest insight I’ve ever read about it was written by Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones guitarist and songwriter. In his autobiography, Life, Richards revealed his fascination with the motivation behind artistic creation. He wrote: “What is it that makes you want to write songs? In …
Bill Hess Aġviq: Sacred Whale, Carrier of Life May 5, 2015: Rays stream from sun onto ocean to strike hunters from all angles, cooking them out of their clothing layer by layer until finally they stand bare chested at the water’s edge. I remember a beach in Mexico – but this is Arctic Alaska, …
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