photographic essays
Matt Eich Fear and Self Loathing in America [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT For the last eight years I have catalogued the American experience in pictures, trying to understand this country by focusing on specific places, on community and on the issues they embody. My hope was that these examinations of …
Laura Morton The Social Stage [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] San Francisco, California has a thriving culture of what is often referred to as high society. This small group of wealthy people attends numerous glamorous social events with each other throughout the year to socialize while financially supporting local cultural institutions and other charity organizations. …
Dana Matthews One Farm One Decade [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] Over thirty years ago, photographer Dana Matthews and writer Richard Giles met in the rural deep south. Matthews came from her grandmother’s farm and Giles from the Delta by way of farms in the Mississippi Black Belt. Between Matthews’s home in Alabama and Giles’s …
Sara Munari Dolphins Sleep With Open Eyes [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] Zoos are born with informative intent to know and understand animal breeds, otherwise unattainable. I wonder today which is the sense of life of an animal that is born, grows and dies in a cage. Strange form of entertainment for humans, or thin …
Video © by Photo Raw Magazine My intent here was originally to write a whole long treatise on Jean-François Leroy. But I skipped that idea. He is of course the progenitor of Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, France. 25 years worth of photojournalism based exhibitions, lectures, seminars, and workshops. Café de la Poste, a local …
Christopher Capozziello The Distance Between Us I want answers. I want explanations for why some suffer and others do not. I want to know why some get better while others get worse. Is it fate or is it chance or is it just bad luck? Initially, telling our story wasn’t something I set out to …
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I feel this morning just a wee twinge of fall in the air here in the Outer Banks of NC. Oh yes it is still summer, but I can feel and smell what’s coming. I won’t think winter yet of course but the change of seasons always makes one think things over a bit. Reflect. …
Bart Koetsier Taillights Fade [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] Bart Koetsier follows the tradition of night street photographers in his series Taillights Fade. Walking the dark hours of cities in Europe, the work-in-progress series so far includes Amsterdam, Paris, Marseille and Warsaw. While many street photographers rely on anonymity and distance, Koetsier says he enjoys …
Jeremy Wade Shockley My American West The American West is who I am. It was my childhood, and it is my way now. The ideals of the West have shaped my personality, my values, and my decisions. I see a culture of bravery, resilience. I understand the ebb and flow, the double edged sword of …
Nicolas Janowski The Liquid Serpent [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT The Amazon is neither man nor animal. She is nature’s hybrid. Mirrors of man’s contradiction, of a world to which she belongs and yet remains distant. The Amazon bears forth over-stimulated cities pervaded by a savage force, which exist simultaneously as …
