photographic essays
Nicolas Enriquez The Bloodline [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 RUNNER UP ] The Bloodline is a chapter designated by the gang of the Latin Kings to the State of New York. The Latin Kings is one of the largest and most organized gangs in America with more than 35,000 active members. This Photo Essay focuses …
Joshua Irwandi Asmat: Not a Blank Canvas [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 RUNNER UP ] Asmat is a tribe of New Guinea discovered not a century ago, notorious for the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in 1961. However, ever since Indonesia annexed West Papua from The Netherlands, Indonesian government’s transmigration program has brought in an influx …
Aaron Canipe Plateau [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 RUNNER UP ] Plateau is an exploration of the North Carolina piedmont region. The piedmont, situated between the mountain and coastal region of the state, has long been home to tobacco farms, furniture production, and textile mills, among other industries. This series takes it’s inspiration from North …
Mu Yang Human Brain Project [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 RUNNER UP ] The world of ‘victims of brainwave control’ looks like science-fiction; it is full of technology, miracles, machines, and cyborgs. However, unlike cultural movement promoters such as Italian Futurists or Afrofuturists, these ‘victims’ meet with ‘Futurism’ in a different way. For them, those …
Aaron Vincent Elkaim Where The Rier Runs Through [ EPF 2015 HONORABLE MENTION ] Plans for what would eventually be called the Belo Monte Dam Complex began in 1975, under the apex of military dictatorship in Brazil. The dam would be built within the Xingu River basin, in the state of Para, home to Brazil’s …
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Sofia Valiente Miracle Village [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 WINNER ] In South Florida, off the coast of Lake Okeechobee, lies a community called Miracle Village. It is home to over 150 sex offenders. The village was founded five years ago by a Christian ministry that seeks to help individuals that have no place to …
Danila Tkachenko Restricted Areas The project “Restricted Areas” is about the human impulse towards utopia, about our striving for perfection through technological progress. Humans are always trying to own ever more than they have, this is the source of technical progress. The byproducts of this progress are various commodities as well as the tools of …
EPF 2015 WINNERS Danila Tkachenko, winner – $10,000 Aaron Vincent Elkaim, honorable mention FUJIFULM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2015 WINNERS Sofia Valiente, winner – $5,000 + FujiFilm camera Mu Yang, runner up – FujiFilm camera Aaron Canipe, runner up – FujiFilm camera Joshua Irwandi, runner up – FujiFilm camera …
Burn Magazine Interviews Scott Thode at LOOK3 Look3 is upon us. Again. This week. Right now. We will try to keep you updated, mostly through Burn Instagram but also right here and for sure when the EPF is announced on Friday morning at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Va. the traditional “center stage” …
Alina Rudya Prypyat Mon Amour We were evacuated from Prypyat when I was only one-year-old. My father, an engineer, was working in the plant on the night of the accident. He was then 28-years-old and my mother, only 23-years-old. At the time, the average age of residents in Prypyat–a small town three-kilometers away from Chernobyl, …
