photographic essays
Ana Carolina Fernandes Bodies and Souls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT For the past two years, photographer Ana Carolina Fernandes coexisted within a transvestite community, spending time in a large house where they live in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro. This time of familiarity, complicity and trust diluted any kind of pre-judgment one could possibly have about …
15 Photographers Iranian Living Room If you leaf through our family album the first ten years of my life were spent in black and white and predominantly in our living room yet my memories of those years are full of colour. ~ Hamid Ziarati, Iranian writer Under the creative direction of Enrico Bossan, head …
Dana Stolzgen Baku’s Refugee Settlements [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Azerbaijan gained independece. But the early years of independence were overshadowed by the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict between Azerbaijan and their neighboring Armenia between 1992-1994. More than one million people had been displaced. Thousands of refugees had to move …
Dominic Bracco II My Republic [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT My Republic is a personal exploration of the South Texas border region where I was raised. The Republica Del Rio Grande lasted only a year. The new nation’s commanders were executed by Mexican troops, (one of which was a distant – …
Bryan Schutmaat Grays The Mountain Sends [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] “Grays the Mountain Sends” combines portraits, landscapes, and still lifes in a series of photos that explores the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West. Equipped with a large format view camera, and inspired by …
Fausto Podavini Mirella [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Mirella is the story of a woman, a mother, a wife, a grandmother. Mirella is 71 years old, she spent 43 years of her life with the only person loved. 43 years of sharing, difficulties, laughs and beautiful moments: a family, a house, …
The light inside St. Peter's Basilica has alway fascinated me. Rome, Italy. Photo by @giovannicoccophoto
Mads Nissen Amazonas [ EPF 2013 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT AMAZONAS is a raw and lyrical journey into the world’s largest rainforest. The intense documentary photographs lure you inside the uncanny wilderness, where gold-diggers, warriors, homosexuals in exile and isolated indigenous tribes collide on the threshold between nature and culture, instinct and reason, …
Dimitris Michalakis Burnout [ EPF 2013 FINALIST ] Large demostrations in Athens since 2010, police repression, violence and irrational use of tear gas, 3500 suicides, massive unemployment (26%) and unpaid work – two out of three young people are unemployed – abolition of health structures in the public sector, closure of mentally ill units, hundreds …
Snapshots. Whatever is coming down around me at any moment. That is what I like about Instagram. For me a personal diary and I hope now for this audience as well. I think this is the best way for us to launch BurnDiary and for this audience to have a platform in real time. Your …
