photographic essays
Alexander Mendelevich Planning The Emptiness [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] We have a rectangle in which we keep reassembling the world. It’s a fantastic tool; it fixates what’s in front of the camera and also what’s behind the camera. It is an objective picture in subjective viewfinder. Through photography we are re-framing our memories, fantasies, …
Paolo Marchetti The Price of Vanity [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] We all know intensive farming, which uses industrial and scientific techniques to get the maximum amount of product at the lowest cost and using minimal space. A practice widespread in all the developed countries. Yet we know much less about how intensive farming actually …
Sebastian Liste An Intimate Pandemic [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] Many say that violence is the social pandemic of the century in Latin America. Yet everyday life and social change in the region has never been immune to violence. The conquest, the slavery system, the independence, land acquisition, expropriation of natural resources and political revolutions …
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) Charles Roux Fictitious Feasts [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 FINALIST ] This project is based upon the relations between food and literature through photography. Starting from specific passages from fiction literature, I aim to recreate the symbolic and emotional strength of literary food scenes. Being a feature of relevant human behaviour …
Jacob Aue Sobol Arrivals and Departures Arrivals and Departures chronicles Jacob Aue Sobol’s travels across the Asian continent by train during 2012-2014, with stops in Moscow, Russia; Ulan Batar, Mongolia and Beijing, China, and numerous rural communities along the way. During three separate month-long trips, Sobol photographed the changing landscape from his window seat, as …
Erin Geideman I can see right through you [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 FINALIST ] During the summer following my last year of high school I started documenting the lives of my closest friends. We grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, a sprawling city in decline. Unable to afford anything else, we entertained ourselves by partying …
Alvaro Laiz The Hunt [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] It was still a time when a Udege, looking at a deer, he thought he saw a deer-man (…) In those times all sort of things happened to people. Such things happened that nowadays do not. Udege tale Udege people have lived in the Boreal Jungle …
Annie Flanagan We Grew Up With Gum In Our Hair [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] I first picked up my camera when I was 14 and since then my best friend Hannah has been a consistent focus for my photography. Now, nearly 15 years later, we have created a body of work that confronts the …
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Marta Berens Suiti [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] The history of the Suiti people goes back almost 400 years to a romantic story from 1623 when the ruler of the Alsunga region (Kurzeme, Latvia), Johan Ulrich von Schwerin, in order to marry a Polish court lady Barbara Konarska, agreed to re-convert to the Catholic faith. …
Javier Arcenillas Latidoamerica [ EPF 2015 FINALIST ] Sociological essay of Honduras, the most violent zone in the world in its most dramatic and miserable. The impotence of pain and hell asocial victims of murderers in a daily theater of war where violence is always the news of the day in his red note. It …
