photographic essays
This was by far my best photo job. Ever. Both Magnum and NatGeo pale by comparison. The Virginia Beach Photo Service. We sold tourists pictures in little telescopic plastic viewers. 2 for $2. , 6 for $5. Deal. I was 19 in this shot. This job helped me learn to talk to strangers. This shot …
This is the entrance to National Geographic and this is the Editor of National Geographic Magazine. Yes, Chris Johns a field photographer with “more than 20” published essays to his credit who became THE editor of NatGeo. We are on our way to his office after being cleared by 7 year security officer D’Won Addison, …
Alberto Lizaralde Frail [ EPF 2011 HONORABLE MENTION ] Frail is about those everyday moments when everything collapses. Little moments where our life changes, spins and breaks. Suspended moments in which something has just happened or is about to. Situations in which time, objects and places lose their physical nature. Tiny fragments of life which, …
Sometimes you just do not want to be finished. Sometimes you could just roll on along. For awhile longer. Just a bit more. This is the second time I have had an assignment from National Geographic to do a story on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Back in the late 80’s I did an …
Valerio Spada Gomorrah Girl ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT It’s about adolescence, choices and chances in a land of Camorrah (the name of the Mafia in Naples). On March 27th, 2004, Annalisa Durante, at the age of 14, was killed in Forcella, a Naples area under the Giuliano clan’s egemony. Annalisa and two of her friends …
I took this picture the day after Christmas . I was playing dominos with my mother, when I noticed the light hitting just right on her wedding day picture. A very small simply framed b&w shot from a random off the street commercial photographer in San Francisco where my parents were married without ceremony as …
Reda Abdelaziz Mohamed, 19, is seen before and after his injuries. He is seen a few months after earning his diploma in Tourism and Hotel Management, when he was 17, and a week after he lost sight in both eyes. photograph by LAURA EL-TANTAWY Reda Abdelaziz Mohamed is not crying. His left eye constantly weeps, …
38 Responses to The Wall as of December 19th Gerhard says: December 19, 2011 at 1:56 pm (Edit) Phenomenal! Have a safe trip back! Happy Holidays to the whole team! [Translate] Charles Peterson says: December 19, 2011 at 2:06 pm (Edit) Great looking “wall.” Lots of fantastic images not seen before. I get the feeling that there …
HAPPY BIRTHDAY #3 BURN DOWN THE HOUSE ALMOST Yes, three years ago right about now I launched Burn Magazine as an evolution of my Road Trips blog. I as the publisher and curator, and out of a pool of eager helpers, Anton Kusters became the creative director/tech guru. Together Anton and I allowed Burn …
Tamad Dezso Here, Anywhere The map of Hungary is speckled with capsules of time. During the political transformation twenty years ago, as the country experienced change, some places were simply forgotten… Streets, blocks of flats, vacant sites and whole districts became little self-defined enclosures, in which today a certain out-dated, awkward, longed-to-be-forgotten Eastern European feeling …
