photographic essays
Winner of EPF 2015 – Danila Tkachenko – Restricted Access 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 …
Gwen Coyne The Early Years I have photographed memoirs from my daughter’s childhood for nearly six years. I’m more interested in collecting snippets evocative of her, rather than documenting specifics. My daughter has asthma and I never know when a mild cold will turn into an emergency. Naturally, I’ve developed a pervasive concern for her …
Daniel Tchetchik Sunburn “The next day he woke me up at 4:30 in the morning to watch the sun rise over the Sea of Galilee – the most beautiful sunrise in the world, he assured me. We sat on the shore and waited. At five o’clock the sun came up. By 5:15 it was …
Lena Mucha Days in the Amazon “One morning my father woke me up and told me, We will prepare you for the pelazón. First I was afraid, and I didn’t want to do it. They took me to my grandmother and started preparing everything.” The Tikuna, an indigenous group of about 9,500 people, …
Tony Burns Electric Dreams Tokyo is a place like no other. A city from the future, bathed in neon and awash with cartoon-like symbols of all things ‘kawaii’. Fascinating, beautiful, sometimes strange. To wander Shinjuku at night, with its futuristic sounds and childish electronica filling the air is pretty mind blowing and presumably what …
João Castellano Sou Farofa One of the biggest issues in Brazil is the heavy social inequality and all the prejudice that comes along with it, a bad heritage we have incorporated from the colonization period. Middle and upper class Brazilians frequently use a depreciative term to refer to the lower income beachgoers: “farofeiros”. This term …
Simona Ghizzoni Rayuela Over the period of the past seven years, almost as a form of therapy, I’ve been working on a visual diary, Rayuela. Self-portraits and portraits go along in an uninterrupted flow with nature and animals, life and death. Being born and raised in the countryside of a small village in northern Italy, …
Brazil Print Sale It’s Carnaval right now in Brazil. In celebration of this special time and of a country where I’ve photographed with deep conviction over the last 10 years, we are offering a 5 DAYS ONLY small print, out-of-print book, and large collector print sale. (Ends midnight February 10. We extended one day because …
Felipe Jacome Lord of the Mangrove The northwestern corner of Ecuador is home to the tallest mangrove trees in the world. Amidst the trees´ towering, almost fantastical, roots, people of nearby Afro-Ecuadorian communities gather black shells as their form of livelihood. In local parlance shell pickers are known as concheros. Concheros start young. Children as young as …
Irina Popova Welcome to LTP In 1967, during the cold war, the Soviet Union introduced the system of labour treatment profilactoria which was actively used for the forced isolation of persons suffering from alcoholism and drugs addiction. The first Labour Treatment Profilactoria appeared in the USSR in 1967 within the territory of Kazakhstan. In …
