michelle smith – monkey do
Lombok, Indonesia iPhone photo by Michelle Smith
photographic essays
photographic essays
laurence butet-roch – the last mine
[slidepress gallery=’laurencebutetroch_thelastmine’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Laurence Butet-Roch The Last Mine play this essay It is still nighttime. The sun has yet to rise and the sky is a dreary dark grey that forecasts a cloudy day. Gilles, 55, is getting ready for another day at work. He lives …
gabriela bulisova – iraqi refugees
[slidepress gallery=’gabrielabulisova_iraqirefugees’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Gabriela Bulisova Iraqi Refugees play this essay The Option of Last Resort: Iraqi Refugees in the United States One of the least reported stories of the U.S. invasion of Iraq is the dispersal of close to 5 million Iraqis displaced internally or forced …
is paper hot, or not?
“Color , grace, gesture. Slipping and sliding through nights humid and intimidating. I am both lost and found in a simultaneous rush of primal feelings and needs.” These were my words for a Bravo paper promo for their paper and printing. A commercial use of my photography but the whole concept, design and writing was …
preston gannaway – between the devil and the deep blue sea
[slidepress gallery=’prestongannaway_betweenthedevilandthedeepbluesea’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Preston Gannaway Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea play this essay “Wildness is a necessity.” — John Muir Seven and a half miles of beach stretch along the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in Norfolk, Virginia. There are few, if any, …
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righteous (as in bob marley def)….
(interview with Alec Soth , above, coming soon…..stuff you never knew) I have had writers block for the last three weeks, yet I am not a writer. Which is no doubt the whole of the problem. I can do ok with pictures on demand. Not so with pen and paper. Surely it isn’t that I …
sebastien van malleghem – police
[slidepress gallery=’sebastienvanmalleghem_police’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Sébastien Van Malleghem Police play this essay Brussels, Nivelles, Belgium, 2008 – 2010 For more than 3 years, I followed Belgian cops in their cars, during their missions, everywhere. I discovered the violence of life seen on the face …
laura el-tantawy – cairo
[slidepress gallery=’lauraeltantawy_cairo2′] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Laura El-Tantawy Cairo play this essay Editors note: After a week of shooting and updates, this is an edit of Laura’s work…she leaves tomorrow to return to London….this is her final essay. -dah- February 11, 2011 Cairo, Egypt I was in Tahrir Square …
Emerging Photographer Fund 2011 – Call for Entries
[slidepress gallery=’epf_2010_sampler’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls play the EPF 2010 sampler We are now receiving submissions for a BURN grant of $15,000. Deadline for entry is May 15, 2011 Funding is designed to support continuation of a photographer’s personal project. This body of work may be …
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ekkarat punyatara – the monk
[slidepress gallery=’ekkaratpunyatara_themonk’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Ekkarat Punyatara The Monk in New York play this essay I began this project in New York with the idea that I believe Buddhism, or the middle way of Buddha, is the journey of each person’s mind observing very tiny feelings and mood …