photographic essays
Sipho Mpongo Born Free The ‘Born Frees’ make up about 40 percent of the population, and the critics among older South Africans contend that they are apathetic and apolitical, unaware of the history of the struggle that made their lives better. Will they allow themselves to be defined by the scars of apartheid, or will …
Coping Mechanism from Run Riot on Vimeo. WATCH THIS! Coping Mechanism Anthony Smallwood Full disclosure: David Alan Harvey is a great mentor and dear friend and the fact that we’ve almost been arrested/killed together at various times in our travels means we’re pretty close. So, admittedly, my track to the pages of Burn was an …
James Whitlow Delano The Little People: Equatorial Rainforest Project In the Eden-like rainforests that once clothed the equator, multinational corporations are quietly stealing the resources of powerless, largely voiceless indigenous peoples whose names still identify the mountains, the valleys, and the rivers from where oil, timber, gold and other valuable minerals are spirited away. Imagine …
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Matjaz Krivic Tribe As far as new age social utopias go, it’s doesn’t get any more spectacular than the Rainbow Gathering. With members in the tens of thousands and a long spanning tradition in every imaginable alternative lifestyle, the Rainbow tribe certainly knows how to put together a happening. It began with the counter-culture “dropout” …
Sarker Protick Love Me or Kill Me [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] The Bangladeshi film industry based in Dhaka, and so known as “Dhallywood” has been going since 1956. Dhallywood movies have fallen out of favor among the richer classes, who prefer foreign films. The growing influence of Bollywood (Hindi cinema) films in Bangladesh has …
Pablo Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] The first survey of areas affected by glyphosate spraying in Argentina revealed that 13.4 million people — one third of the country’s population — are affected. In 2012, 370 million liters (98 US million gallons) of agrotoxins were used over 21 million hectares, …
Raffaele Petralla Mari People, a Pagan Beauty [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] There is a population with Finnish ancestors living in a rural area near Joshkar-ola, in the Republic of Mari-El, Russia. They are called Mari, speak a language belonging to the Ugro-Finnic and use a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet. They settled in …
Emanuele Occhipinti The Flower of Kosmet [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] “Kosmet” is short for “Kosovo and Metohija”, a land which has been long disputed by the Serbian and Albanian Kosovans. After the war, unleashed by Slobodan Miloevic in 1999, the UN intervention allowed for a gradual return of the Albanians who in their turn …
David Molina Heroes [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 FINALIST ] “Heroes” is a personal body of work about my family and how my uncle’s heroin addiction and his death from overdose affected and changed our lives. What I am presenting now is the first step of a long term project, starting on chapter 1: “The …
Mariah Leal Paes Mom Tales [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 FINALIST ] My mother is 43 and ’til 3 years ago she used to live by herself. After my grandfather died in 2012 due to Alzheimer’s complications, my grandma broke her arm. Then she chose to never leave the bed anymore. Her feet is atrophied …
