photographic essays
Laia Abril Thinspiration [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT The Pro Ana community has turned anorexia (Ana) into its dogma. This illness has even been embodied by the members of this group; they venerate it as the one giving meaning to their totalitarian ‘life style’. It’s a virtual reality where they state …
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Giovanni Cocco Monia [ EPF 2012 RUNNER UP ] This work is an ongoing project; it started five years ago, in silence. The photographs came first, before any other project, and before the story, which they belong to. They are the result of an experience and the desire to tell it. Monia is my sister. …
Simona Ghizzoni Afterdark: Consequences of War on Women in the Gaza Strip [ EPF 2012 RUNNER UP ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT I reached the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the first time in 2010, on assignement with a friend journalist, to document the condition of palestinian women in the Gaza Strip. At that time, we …
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Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Jessica Lutz Get Your Cowgirl On play this essay I am not a songwriter or a singer, nor was I planning to spend several months in the desert of West Texas, and yet I did all of those things. …
Matt Lutton Only Unity: Serbia in the Aftermath of Yugoslavia and Milosevic [ EPF 2012 RECIPIENT ] “Only Unity” has emerged from five years of living and working in the Balkans; it is my personal response to the confounding atmosphere of the region. My project presents a psychological portrait of Serbs from across the Balkans …
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Candace Owens, Outer Banks artist/photographer, stopped by just now to get me to sign her copy of the June issue of NatGeo with my OBX story in it. I am right now so crazed busy, but how could I say no? The mother of two of the cutest kids I have ever seen, Candace …
Michael Webster New York ESSAY CONTAINS IMPLICIT CONTENT The mythology of New York is known to anyone who has watched more than a dozen hours of television or skimmed magazines in a dentist’s office. But like ancient Greece, New York is too big to have a single, central story; its myth is carried by its …
Medford Taylor Bulldust I could hear the fatal thump of rabbits under the wheels of the big Land Cruiser as it hurtled through endless clouds of bulldust, up the Birdsville Track. Jock Makin, the Aussie writer, was driving us the 1,100 kilometers from Adelaid to Birdsville, into the ‘red heart’ of Australia. In 1860 the …
