photographic essays
Gaia Squarci Broken Screen When you’re losing sight, the world starts to appear fragmented, like through a broken screen. Then you stop understanding where light comes from.” Dale Layne The blind live in a sighted world. They function in a system constructed on the rules of seeing. Many of them could once see, but …
Aji Susanto Anom Recollecting Dreams “Not all who wanders are lost” J.R.R Tolkien Question about home, dream and everything between, photography is my emotional escape, I use it as something to express what I feel in my boring life. 2014, I moved from my hometown and started to live in another city for a study, it …
Sarah Pabst Reclusive “And in the end, we were all just humans… drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald When we met we were immediately drawn to each other, but we didn’t have an easy start. There was love and passion, but also addiction and pain. …
Camilo Ramirez The Gulf This work explores the entire length of the U.S. Gulf Coast and the way its varied history, economics, environment and culture intertwine to reveal a simultaneous reverence and abuse of its fetishized natural resources. As I photographed along the southern edge of the Gulf Coast states most affected by the …
2016 Just about the time I got used to 2015 it was over. The year ripped right on by before giving me a chance to digest it. I am sure most feel the same. BURN now rocks right into it’s 8th year. Many photographers who got their start right here on BURN and BurnDiary in …
Cécile Menendez Rapid Eye Movement Rapid Eye Movement is the paradoxical phase of sleep: only when we let go completely can we free ourselves from all social or moral proprieties. Images seem to flash by in a chaotic or incoherent yet significant order; through this stream of images our subconscious shows us the very core …
Christopher Nunn Ukraine 2013-2015 This on-going series began in February 2013 when I travelled to Ukraine following a thread of family history to the sleeper town of Kalush, the birthplace of my then-ailing grandmother. She left at 14 before arriving in England as a displaced person after World War II. Never intending to document my …
Lianne Milton Song of the Quetzal This project explores the complexities of post-civil war recovery and the struggle to find peace and security from the Guatemalan Civil War among the indigenous populations, who suffered the most violence. Guatemala is the only country in the western hemisphere that experienced genocide in the 20th century. During the …
Mariano Silletti Ludovicu Ludovicu’s disappearance. Ludovicu arrived in Montescaglioso (Italy), with his family, from Romania. Ludovicu was 57 years old and he was suffering from Alzheimer. One day in December 2013, he went out from his home and never came back. Veronica, his wife, waited for him for hours. She then finally came to our …
Cyril Marcilhacy The Village Brann du Senon, former homeless, former biker, ex-con and eternal rebel, decided to change his life two years ago. After an eventful existence and several heart-attacks, he became a housing rights activist, bought a field in Fontainebleau forrest, 80 kilometers away from Paris, some old caravans he accommodated, and organized a …
