photographic essays
Myrto Papadopoulos The Attendants VIDEO CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT At the beginning my natural necessity was to enter the world of the sex industry and talk to the women that are involved in it. It has taken me a really long time and effort to reach out to some of these women, to gain their trust …
Chris Bickford Scenes from a Venetial Carnival This week the world’s most ancient and wide-ranging bacchanal kicks into high gear, as millions of revelers across the globe celebrate the ancient rite of Carnival. From Bulgaria to Brazil, from Haiti to India, from Colorado to Trinidad, from Alabama to Australia; in a thousand cities, towns, and villages …
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Lijie Zhang The Innocent If you believe that there are people who are different from us, then the value of their existence is often represented in some other way. We began this project two years ago with an interview to Guo Haiping, one of the few people who have dedicated their career to researching and …
Bob Black Loomings Upon an Horizon Author’s Preface: It has been more than a year and a half since I completed “Loomings Upon an Horizon” and I have not, until recently, looked at it since except to show it as part of an author’s talk and projection in January 2012. I have set it adrift and …
Tomer Ifrah Moscow Metro “Israeli photographer Tomer Ifrah (b. 1981) photographed scenes from the Moscow metro, a vast and bustling transportation network which slices through the echelons of society, carrying an average of 6.5 million passengers daily. In the cold of winter, people travel between the poorly lit underground and the near-perpetual dark life above-ground, …
Arif Iqball Glimpses of the Floating World Outside Japan there is often a misunderstanding about the role of the Geisha and that misunderstanding comes from different literary and movie interpretations/fictionalization by non-Japanese at different points in history. The difficulty also comes from the inability to recognize/accept that female entertainers can exist in cultures without engaging …
Virgil Dibiase 1 Man “You should not learn your lines, you should not hit your mark, and you should never follow your light. Find your light — that’s my opinion.” — Joaquin Phoenix (actor) “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” — Henry Chinaski (barfly) We’ve seen these men. …
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Nathan Pearce Midwest Dirt ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT When I was 18 years old I packed my bags and left rural Illinois. It had been my home my entire life, but I thought in leaving I would find the perfect place for myself elsewhere. In the city everything and everyone I knew was very different …
Hajime Kimura Matagi Man lives freely only by his readiness to die. -Mahatma Gandhi One winter day, we pursued black-bears in the deep forest. Nothing around, the sun shining and the air crisp. We had barely eaten anything in more than 4 days. We were just exhausted. Suddenly one of the Matagi mumbled, having a …
