photographic essays
Martina Cirese Asankojo What happens when a circle begins? You know the circle will end. The matter is how is it gonna end. (The matter is, how can you know how is it gonna end?). A photographer meets an subject, not that she thinks he his, but it’s the only thing he deserves to be. …
Zaida Gonzalez Rios Primera Comunion ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT My intention is to critique the traditions and social references of Western culture, as well as use irony in questioning certain canons, such as the idealization of the body in advertising and media, the role of gender, and a consumer based existence due to globalization and …
Miguel Angel Sánchez Ulu Pamir Miguel Ángel Sánchez traveled in 2012 with his studio to Ulu Pamir, Turkey, a far place in the middle of Turkish Kurdistan, hidden between mountains with very hard winters and connected by a tortuous path to Van Lake. 30 years ago, this land was the witness of the arrival of …
Matt Blum The Nu Project ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Matt Blum started “The Nu Project” with the idea that women of all shapes and sizes deserve to be photographed beautifully as fine art nudes. His subjects were volunteers through word-of-mouth or Craigslist–they came with their stories, their successes and failures, their scars, their survival of …
Allison O’Keefe One Goal Grand Forks, North Dakota. Winter. It’s so cold you can barely breathe, and 12,000 people don’t care. They brave the wind, snow, and negative temperatures to watch their beloved University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux hockey team, and they expect a win — because they don’t hang second place banners in …
Jagath Dheerasekara Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud In 2005, in the wake of a defeated nuclear waste dump plan in South Australia, the Australian government named three Department of Defence areas in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia as potential sites for the first purpose built national nuclear waste storage facility. There was no consultation with …
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Sofía López Mañán Anonymous ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT In “Anonymous” I used stand-ins for self portraits and this allowed me to step outside of my self. The nameless women silently speak for me. They become me in a universal sense. I think it might be easier to reveal our deeper truths anonymously. I am anonymously directing the …
Sean Schmidt An American Matter These photographs are part of a on-going project titled ‘An American Matter’. It is a personal project which explores the contemporary American landscape as I encounter it in my life. I am an American born salesman living under the pressures of upward mobility; loans, credit, and, to borrow a phrase, …
Giuseppe Moccia A Third Landscape? The Alps form both a natural and a cultural landscape, place of a diversity which is not only biological but also cultural. Back in the 60’s and 70’s, a widespread wealth along with the exploits of a group of Italian athletes, known as the “Italian Landslide”, set the basis for …
Nicola Taylor Tales from The Moors Country I have always loved being told a story and my series “Tales from the Moors Country” takes inspiration from tales and folklore of the North Yorkshire Moors, told to me as a child. Those stories of witches and ghosts, spirits and fairies, lost loves and obscure protagonists are …
