photographic essays
Gaston Lacombe Captive In zoos all around the world, visitors go to admire some of the most beautiful, rare or fierce creatures on Earth, but often fail to notice the deplorable habitats in which they are kept. I have been gathering pictures from zoos all around for the last three years. I like most zoos …
Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Edite Haberman It’s a Girl play this essay The visual story of a childless woman. “It’s a Girl” started as a simple exercise and transformed itself into a potent self exploration through visual expressions of longing and loss. It …
Mette Frandsen Sin City ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Mickey I meet Mickey at a traffic light two blocks from the center of Las Vegas. He’s carrying a heavy suitcase and the brutal and inhuman desert sun is making him sweat. He takes a break in the shadow. I ask him about the suitcase. – I …
OUTER BANKS, NORTH CAROLINA …. SEPTEMBER 2012 We are now in the process of building a separate page for the Family Drive project. We take off driving around Oct 1 for an online version of the process, but of course I am shooting all the time on it. This body of work has been …
Ira Block Faces of Hope Thousands of survivors have walked the difficult path of recovery since the September 11, 2001 bombings of the World Trade Center. And although I began documenting this horrific event shortly after the attacks, focusing on the people who emerged from the burning twin towers alive proved to be not only …
From my archives. I managed to get permission to get my helicopter in close to the statue for a story I was doing on National Parks special edition for NatGeo. A spectacular morning as I recall. On 9/11 I was in New York having breakfast with photographer Ira Block. See his essay on the survivors …
Too bad I just can’t sit still. Nobody likes more than do I to relax and party and play games and just enjoy life. No matter where I am in the world, images of my cats sitting on the front porch will pop in my head while I am walking down the Champs-Élysées. I have on …
Alejandro Olivares Living Periferia ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT How many times can a person face death in their lives? Sense it. Feel it. Smell it. Maybe once? Twice? Four times? The people captured in “Living Periferia” live with it every day of their lives. The violence, the drugs, the weapons, the lost bullets, which take …
Maki Maki Welcome 2 My Room ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Internet is reachable by millions of people each second. They can communicate with each other, and sometimes very private things are told and shown on internet blogs through photos, videos, writings. Although initially it was not intentioned, this is what I experienced with this series …
I have never been one to follow any “routine” for long. I always want to get as close to the creative edge as I can. The status quo tends to get boring quickly. So when asked recently to participate in the upcoming Magnum Nudes project, my curiosity was immediately piqued since I had never …
