photographic essays
Michele Palazzi Black Gold Hotel [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] In the last decade the economy of Mongolia has grown at an unprecedented rate, with GDP expanding by more than 10% per year. All this mostly depends on the mining industry: attracted by the large deposits of copper, gold and most of all coal, all …
Scott Typaldos Butterflies [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT To this day, I have extensively photographed the problematic of mental affliction in Ghana, Togo and Kosovo. My long term goal is to create a global project on mental illness and the great inequalities present in its therapies. Since my last trip to …
Alicia Vera Eden [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT I met Eden while working on a project about strippers in San Francisco, CA. She had just flown into the city to live out her fantasy of becoming an exotic dancer. Baby, a slightly older dancer and prostitute, was one of the first …
Perhaps if you are a new reader you do not know that Burn was born on Christmas Day in 2008. All of the Burn team wishes you a happy holiday season . We will have some new cool stuff going on in 2014. For one thing there will be new Burn03 coming up from the …
Linka Odom Trim Camp [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Welcome to “The Pot Republic”, a cannabis-cultivating region covering nearly 10,260 square miles on the West Coast of America. Unsurprisingly given what they’re doing, there is little documentation of the lifestyle and craft of the local farmers and workers that have turned …
Hiroto Sekiguchi Living in Online [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] His name is Yuki and my high school mate. He was a shy but cheerful boy with sense of humor. After graduation, he studied hard and entered well-known university in Japan. He liked filmmaking. Once, his piece got awarded in a contest. He dreamed of …
Dana Stolzgen Chassuers [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT The photographs are part of the series Chasseurs, shot during the summer of 2010 in the jungles of the Republic of Congo. They are a product of the time I spent living with the local hunters. Working at the heart of the jungle …
Daro Sulakauri Journey to Chechnya [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] Couple of years ago I did a story on Chechen refugees who escaped the deadly war in Chechnya and settled in my country Georgia in pankisi gorge, in a remote mountainous enclave in the far northeast corner. Though not recognized or officially monitored by international …
Andy Spyra Exodus [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] Christianity is on the edge of extinction in its birthplace, the Middle East. Escaping sectarian violence, kidnappings, religious fatwas, economic hardship and severe persecution, the oldest Christian communities in the world are leaving the region. Nowadays there are more Iraqi, Turkish and Palestinian Christians living in the …
Alexander Mendelevich Tel Aviv’s Girls [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT This is a work in progress. This series is about Tel Aviv, girls, bicycles, independence, despondency, loneliness and fashion. Is this a reality or my attitude to reality? I do not know. And I don’t really care about it. I do …
