photographic essays
We are now officially announcing the Emerging Photographer Fund award for 2012. We will now award $15,000. as three different grants. We are trying to spread the love a bit. Burn will give $10,000. to one photographer, and two smaller grants of $2500. each . Three awards instead of one. Each intended to get a …
A VIDEO BY ROGER BALLEN I FINK U FREEKY by DIE ANTWOORD Many of you may remember Roger Ballen here from his Boarding House essay, also published in Burn 01. Roger was also kind enough to interact with this audience. This is a very interesting example of a conceptual still photographer making a video. This …
Dana Stolzgen Black Garden Nagorno Karabakh / 2010 May. Inside the narrow valleys of the Caucasus Mountains there is a country not appearing in the maps: Nagorno-Karabakh, which name – a mixed of Russian, Turkish and Persian languages – means Mountainous Black Garden. This self-proclaimed republic is the result of a cruel conflict – 20 …
The cool little video clip above by maestro Pete Longworth really is the way it is around my loft right now. Creative juices flowing the way they SHOULD always flow but rarely do. Along with doing my own work, my number one priority, is to mentor those who seek to marry art, craft, and daily …
[slidepress gallery=’alfredochiarappa_crossingleningrad’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Alfredo Chiarappa Crossing Leningrad play this essay Leningrad, Russia January 2011 “Stavrogin: … in the Apocalypse the angel swears that there’ll be no more time. Kirillov: I know. It’s quite true, it’s said very clearly and exactly. When …
Teresa Cos I Was There – Observations on “The Society of The Spectacle” “I Was There” is the first chapter of a long term (lifetime) project which explores western society and its obsession with success. I started by depicting the worlds of art, fashion and culture, where anxiety and struggle for success, together with the …
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We are working around the clock to make this happen. This being an exhibit of the recently photographed ONE NIGHT IN RIO and the book/portfolio to launch simultaneous. I will probably be here in my NY loft night and day for three weeks . Sequencing, choosing paper stock, size, interplay between photos etc etc. The …
Yurian Quintanas Grabarka Every year on the 19th of August, thousands of Orthodox Catholics moved by faith flock to the holy mountain of Grabarka in Poland to celebrate the Transfiguration. Many of them go by foot or on their knees, many carry the traditional orthodox cross for many miles as a sacrifice to God. On …
Hanging. Supposed to be writing a piece for NatGeo on what goes on beyond this porch in OBX. Yet this is about as far as I can get into the world of writing. Posting on Burn, which I doubt is considered writing. Chris Bickford and Jennifer Kolb take a smoke break after our pizza and …
Charlotte Tanguy Nyx In St-Petersburg, pollen comes out of poplars that were massively planted there after the second World War, in order to fill the holes in the city. Because so many of them were planted, and the pollen started to pollute the city, people became allergic to these pollen. In St-Petersburg, I …
