photographic essays
David Favrod Gaijin [ EPF 2013 FINALIST ] GAIJIN is a japanese word meaning ‘The Foreigner’ “For a Swiss, I am a Japanese and for a Japanese I am a Swiss or rather a gaijin.” My name is David ‘Takashi’ Favrod. I was born on the 2nd of July 1982 in Kobe, Japan, of a …
Javier Arcenillas Violence in Latin America [ EPF 2013 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Sociological essay of Latin America, the most violent zone in the world in its most dramatic and painful form. The impotence of pain and hell asocial victims of murderers in a daily theater of war where violence is always the …
Maciej Pisuk Under the Skin Photographs from Brzeska Street [ EPF 2013 RECIPIENT ] The inhabitants of Warsaw consider Brzeska Street, the very core of North Praga, the most neglected and dangerous district in the city (in my opinion the greatest local problem is stigmatization of the people living in the area). I would like …
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Oksana Yushko Balaklava the Lost History [ EPF 2013 RECIPIENT ] This project is a part of my exploration of people’s mind who were born in the USSR. Changing people’s mind is the most difficult thing. The Soviet Union hasn’t existed for 20 years but the shadow of it lies everywhere. Things have changed but …
Iveta Vaivode Somewhere on Disappearing Path [ EPF 2013 RECIPIENT ] I’ve always been fascinated with family albums. I grew up looking at my parent’s family albums, imagining their lives before me. Trying to reconstruct the memories that I didn’t have, but at the same time living them over and over again in my imagination. …
Diana Markosian My Father The Stranger [ EPF 2013 RECIPIENT ] I knocked on the door of a stranger. I’ve traveled halfway around the world to meet him. My father. I was seven years old when I last saw him. As the Soviet Union collapsed, so did my family. I remember my father and I …
EPF 2013 WINNERS Diana Markosian, winner Iveta Vaivode, runner-up Oksana Yushko, runner-up Maciej Pisuk, runner-up EPF 2013 FINALISTS (in alphabetical order) Javier Arcenillas David Favrod Dimitris Michalakis Mads Nissen Fausto Podavini Bryan Schutmaat The full essays of the winners and finalists will be published on BURN over the next few days. Stay tuned! …
Joshua Dwain Frith, Kate McElwee, and Verna Pitts At Home w/ David Alan Harvey Workshop play this essay above I have decided to occasionally publish here on Burn, work from students I have in workshops…With their work from the 5 days of shooting customary in most workshops…The three students here were all in …
Jisu Ashram Jisu Ashram Only a hundred miles from Kolkata, but immersed in a jungle in which time seems to stand still, a Jesuit missionary group has expanded the meaning of being called “parents”. In its mission “Jisu Ashram” hosts over a hundred children from families of agriculturists of lower castes. There are a thousand children …
Valentina Quintano In The Absence of Things ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Murmansk (Russia) The project ‘In The Absence Of Things’ explores life in darkness and the difficulties of true communication between people. Every year the city of Murmansk (because of its arctic latitude) descends into darkness for forty days; the sun doesn’t even rise above …
