photographic essays
Ruth Prieto Safe Heaven This work is the second chapter of a documentary project about Mexican immigrant women in New York. Some of them have indigenous backgrounds so that Spanish is not their first language. I decided to document their lives during their free time at their homes. Homes have deep emotional meaning. Through their …
PAYBACK My schedule has been a bit crazy lately. Or maybe it always is. I have a really hard time saying “no” to stuff. Especially if it involves wide eyed youngsters who I can see are just craving some words of “wisdom”. Of course this seems often strange to me, since I am …
Piotr Zbierski Love Has to Be Reinvented When Venasque told me about diaries of Cocteau, I came across this fragment, which deeply affected me: “And then I realized that the world of my dreams is equally full of memories as my real life, so it is the real being and also richer, deeper, full of …
© Bieke Depoorter We are now officially announcing the Emerging Photographer Fund grant for 2013. We are awarding $15,000 to three winners and spreading the love. One top winner will receive $10,000 and two runner-ups will each take home $2,500. Applications are now closed! These grants are designed to support continuation of a photographer’s personal project. This …
The whole point of this I have written about prior, but most likely many readers just do not know….The collector version, which was expensive by nature as an art object or an artisan object if you will is gone…I like art and art objects… At the same time I hate to be in any way …
Irina Werning Back to the Future 2 I love old photos. I know I’m a nosy photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for those old photos. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if …
Return to Rio…. I am heading tomorrow for Rio… Yes, again… For me, there will always be an “again.” Love the place. The ambiance, the life, the people, the whole “theater” that is Rio de Janeiro. For a storyteller, a dream come true. Sure all cities have all kinds of life. Yet Rio …
Todd Danforth Portrait of a Family I sat on the hospital bed beside my grandfather and watched as he took his dying breaths. Aunt Beth walked into the room and quietly sat next to me. She glanced at her father for a moment and then back to me. “Life is funny, huh?” she said. I …
Enri Canaj Shadow in Greece ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT The centre of Athens, as I first remember it, was full of life. During the period before the Olympic Games, there was great development. New hotels appeared in order to host the visitors, shops, restaurants and cafes kept sprouting out, it was full of people everywhere. …
