photographic essays
The waves today on the Outer Banks are just spectacular. An offshore wind gives the large swells a perfect shape. Although it is for sure a winter day with seriously icy water, the surfing crowd is out there. Modern wetsuits make surfing a year around art form. So about an hour ago at sunset when …
Kenneth O’Halloran Life After Death Though now a more secular society, Ireland still has remnants and relics of the old religious faith, even if many of its devoted followers are typically advanced in age – part of what might be termed a dying generation. The Catholic Church had been one of the country’s mainstays. Falling …
Andrei Becheru The Fountain I think you come to grasp a place better when you spend a considerable amount of time there; by seeing and listening to everything around you, you develop a constant connection, you react to it, and then, in the end, you distil everything; in my case, with images. But, first of …
Veronica Daltri Amore Mio Di Provincia The project is focused on the province of Italy as a category of feeling. In fact there is no interest in creating a physical amenability to a specific land; what I want is to convey the feeling of the province and that of living in the province. As I …
Arnau Blanch Vilageliu Veneno ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Veneno ‘Poison’ plays inside the Colombian jungle. Its essence are moments lived, towns, roads, skies and random sites inside the jungle, captured while passing, almost stolen. It is the terrifying story about an encounter with the environment, which looks outward, but also inward. It bears witness to a …
Thomas Bregulla Five to Nine 4:30 a.m. the alarm rings. no, actually it is three alarms ringing. another day to meet a colleague in another country. email and phone or videoconferences take you only so far. nothing beats a face to face meeting. traveling and i have a love hate relationship. it’s part if my …
Filippo Mutani The Backstage Diaries Originally being a reportage photographer, I landed into fashion quite randomly, being assigned by an Italian magazine to follow Karl Lagerfeld in his 2009 Venice Chanel Cruise fashion show. I was immediately more attracted in the before and after, in the work and humanity behind the fashion shows, than in …
James Robertson Off Piste in Afghanistan Bamian is situated at a six hour drive North of Kabul. Historically it has benefited from its location on a trade route and, subsequently, its resultant cultural tourism. It is a long time since silk, spices and Buddhism crossed through Bamian and the last 30 years of turmoil in …
Pete Marovich Shadows of the Gullah The Gullah people are direct decedents of slaves who were brought to the islands from West Africa. After arriving in America, the Gullah created their own community steeped in religion and African traditions. They are known as Gullah in North and South Carolina and Geechee in Georgia and Florida. …
Michal Solarski Hungarian Sea The Hungarian Lake Balaton is the largest in Central Europe. As Hungary is landlocked, the lake is often called the Hungarian Sea. From the 1960’s onwards, Balaton became a major destination for ordinary working Hungarians as well as for those from the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain, who were rewarded …
