photographic essays
David Alan Harvey Tell It Like It Is [ Published by BurnBooks ] I went a little bit crazy publishing this book. Just like I did the first time. In 1967, Bryan was six months old and I was spending the last $400 of the family money to go buy film. This time …
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One day when I was in university, I picked up one of the photo magazines, and saw some pictures by a Mary Ellen Mark who had at the time a Ford Foundation grant to do work in Istanbul. The work blew me away. From that day forward, I kept my eye out …
Marta Berens Dream Chapter [ EPF 2014 SHORTLIST ] This is the Dream Chapter of my Fairytale story: “It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born. (…) Some call me the Elder Granny, others’ the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a …
Lawrence Sumulong Burying the Lead Following Typhoon Haiyan, 60 Filipino families were forced to move into Leyte Provincial Jail after being left homeless and destitute. For close to a year, they lived alongside their incarcerated relatives, some of whom were accused of rape and homicide. I gained access to the prison and verified that families …
Greg Kahn The Sleep of Reason The window on the high-speed train to Naples, Italy, frames an idyllic picture – rolling hills, sun-covered vineyards, and fertile farmland. But beneath the fertile soil of this region lies something insidious, an amalgam of industrial, hospital and nuclear waste that is spiking cancer rates and spreading alarm across …
Jill Corona Creature of the West There is a creature that dwells in the warm desert of the West, one with searing red eyes that blink slow & steadily like a long hot drag of a cigarette burning in the night. It’s tentacle-like arms are generations of families that have lived and died in a …
Allison Davis O’Keefe Mother: Daughter; Daughter: Mother “Mother: Daughter; Daughter: Mother” is an ongoing personal project about the awkward place between being a daughter and having a daughter. For the first year and a half of my daughters life, I didn’t take any photos. Being alone with a child was a depth of loneliness I …
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Kerry Payne and Natalie Grono Sonar Madre Soñar Madre (Mothers Dreams) is a body of work produced by two friends: seekers, artists, alchemists, separated by 30,000 miles but continually inspired by one another as women and artists. In honor of Mother’s Day, they have collaborated, in conjunction with the Instagram feed @echosight; on Motherhood, from …
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Michael Webster Too Many Black People in One Place Intro by Roy Edroso There is a neighborhood called Coney Island just up from the beach in south Brooklyn. Because the gentrification waves that have transformed much of the City have not reached it, the world mostly hears of its crimes, and sometimes about politicians visiting …
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In Bed With Martin Parr
