Romania.
Orthodox icons shop. Arad, Romania, 2014. Photo for Burn Diary/@burndiary by Ciprian Hord/@ciprianhord, member of @elephantguncollective and contributor to @everydayeasterneurope
photographic essays
photographic essays
Max Cabello Orcasitas – Chungui’s Grief (The Wedding of Grief and Carnival)
Max Cabello Orcasitas Chungui’s Grief (The Wedding of Grief and Carnival) ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT In the district of Chungui, Ayacucho, Peru, there’s a foundational myth that strikes people’s imagination the most. From the countless versions that exist, this is one of them: when Dominican monks arrived to the district during the first part of …
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Jordi Pizarro – Disappearing Lands: The “Human Face” of Climate Change in the Sundarbans, India
Jordi Pizarro Disappearing Lands: The “Human Face” of Climate Change in the Sundarbans, India [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ‘Disappearing Lands’ sets out to capture the ‘human face’ of climate change. The delicate balance that has for many centuries existed in the Sundarbans between land, air, and sea, is today under threat, and in certain …
Meeri Koutaniemi – Taken
Meeri Koutaniemi Taken [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] Taken is a long term work aiming to a book, which has a diversity of stories from circumcised women who share their struggles in daily life resulting from an incident that caused irreversible mental and physical consequences for the rest of their lives. Female genital cutting has …
Justin Maxon – Heaven’s Gain
Justin Maxon Heaven’s Gain [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT July 5th, 2013. ‘Hey Bro, well its 7 months today since you was taken away from us… I know you don’t want to see us down & heart broken. It is going to get harder b4 it get easy but we trying.’ …
Kiana Hayeri – Jense Degar (The Other Sex)
Kiana Hayeri Jense Degar (The Other Sex) [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Under Islamic laws, homosexuality is not recognized and is considered to be a sin. Contrary to what is often reported in the media about the Iranian government stand, the LGBT community in Iran live without harassment, threat or persecution. …
Birte Kaufmann – The Travellers – Ireland’s Biggest Minority Group
Birte Kaufmann The Travellers – Ireland’s Biggest Minority Group [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT My ongoing photography project “The Travellers”, gives insight into the everyday life of Ireland’s largest minority group. This group has a nomadic origin, stemming from the tradition of migrant workers. As this tradition no longer exists, the …
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Alessandro Penso – Lost Generation : This is the Story of Young, Unaccompanied Migrants in Greece
Alessandro Penso Lost Generation: This is the Story of Young, Unaccompanied Migrants in Greece [ EPF 2014 WINNER ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Hundreds, thousands, hidden in the abandoned industrial areas that surround the port of Patras or in the old disused train station in the centre of Corinth. I found them in the “urban …
EPF 2014 – the winners
EPF 2014 WINNERS Alessandro Penso, winner – $10,000 Birte Kaufmann, runner-up – $3,000 Kiana Hayeri, honorable mention EPF 2014 FINALISTS (in alphabetical order – out of a total of 1135 entries) Laia Abril Dominic Bracco II Max Cabello Orcasitas Marco Casino Alejandro Cegarra Stephen Dock Ditte Haarlov …
Eric Gottesman – Sudden Flowers
Eric Gottesman Sudden Flowers “If given just a bit of water and light, we will suddenly blossom.” Over the past fifteen years in a neighborhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a group of young people that came to call themselves Sudden Flowers worked with me to make photographs that represented the experiences they endured in their …