photographic essays

photographic essays

scott brauer – we chinese

[slidepress gallery=’mscottbrauer_wechinese’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls M. Scott Brauer We Chinese play this essay “We Chinese” grew out of a curiosity to find out what Chinese people think about their country and their future.  Media coverage of the country and its development often raises questions about the direction of …

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theo stroomer – prison boot camp

[slidepress gallery=’theostroomer_prisonbootcamp’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Theo Stroomer Prison Boot Camp play this essay At first the inmates were too busy getting their asses kicked to notice me. They were experiencing the first day of the Colorado Corrections Alternative Program boot camp, a program aimed at reducing recidivism using …

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pej behdarvand – bingwa

[slidepress gallery=’ejbehdarvand_bingwa’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Pej Behdarvand Bingwa play this essay Bingwa is a Swahili word that translates not only as “expert” or “competent,” but also as “bodybuilder.” This project began when I stumbled across a website featuring African bodybuilding and was struck by the appeal that bodybuilding …

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katia roberts – your dark euphoria

[slidepress gallery=’katiaroberts_yourdarkeuphoria’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Katia Roberts Your Dark Euphoria play this essay They wanted to flower, and flowering is being beautiful. But we want to ripen, and that means being dark and taking pains. -Rainer Maria Rilke In 2004, I met a young …

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patrick hogan – solitary half mad

[slidepress gallery=’patrickhogan_solitaryhalfmad’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Patrick Hogan Solitary, Half Mad play this essay A photographic short story. When I began this essay, I decided to move from the urban area where I had been living to a small cottage in rural Ireland.  I was interested in people who …

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only the good die young..

I am totally not up to this…Writing obits is not what I do…This will not be my best of anything. Yet, it is all I can do at the moment. I found out yesterday, at exactly this time by text message  while driving in a blinding rainstorm,  that my friend and next door neighbor Tim …

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vladimir vasilev – life in concrete

[slidepress gallery=’vladimirvasilev_lifeinconcrete’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Vladimir Vasilev Life in…concrete play this essay A concrete city of Bulgaria’s post-communist world –  this is my homeland. It is real, without any decor. The unfinished transition to a European way of life is a bitter reality that cannot be hidden – …

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matteo armellini – simon

[slidepress gallery=’matteoarmellini_simon’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Matteo Armellini Simon / Story of a Softgunner play this essay In these years of virtual reality,
 where children have stopped playing war in the courtyard
 and do it in front of the computer instead,
 there are those who don’t want to miss …

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sam harris – postcards from home

[slidepress gallery=’samharris_postcardsfromhome’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Sam Harris Postcards from Home (2008 – 2011) play this essay Postcards from Home revolves around my domestic life and especially focuses on my two daughters Uma & Yali growing up. After several nomadic years, we migrated to Australia in 2008. It was …

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michael kircher – potomac gorge

[slidepress gallery=’michaelkircher_potomacgorge’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Michael Kircher Potomac Gorge play this essay “In wildness is the preservation of the world.”  — Thoreau For me there is no better place to stretch myself as a photographer than in the natural world. Just minutes outside of Washington, DC is the dramatic …

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