photographic essays
[slidepress gallery=’coquentin_strangerain’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Julien Coquentin Strange Rain play this essay Once again—the sky saturates us with is deluge—accompanied by its loud burst of thunder—we’ve grown accustomed to. How long has it been raining on this city? Mute and indifferent to what has become familiar—we are …
[slidepress gallery=’jansochor-50years’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jan Sochor 50 Years play this essay Jan Sochor – 50 Years after the Revolution About 50 years after the national rebellion, led by Fidel Castro, and adopting the communist ideology shortly after the victory, the Caribbean island of Cuba …
[slidepress gallery=’michaelchristopherbrown_china’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls EPF 2010 Finalist Michael Christopher Brown China play this essay I feel most alive while on the road. As a result, I am often drawn to photograph people in a state of transition. Fifty years ago President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the …
“Having a story to tell and willingness to tell it, is nothing – a total zero… ability to do it is much more important and valuable…” this is just a part of a very provocative, and soon to be very controversial comment, by one of our readers , Anthony RZ , under our most recent …
[slidepress gallery=’kerrypayne_leftbehind’] Hover over the image for navigation controls Kerry Payne Left Behind play multimedia In a small Australian town on June 12th 2001, my father, Myles Hilton Bean took his own life, aged 60. It was a decision I had no say in, but one which would alter me and the way I …
[slidepress gallery=’justinmaxon_whenthespiritmoves’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT EPF 2010 Finalist Justin Maxon When the Spirit Moves play this essay I’ve heard people say that since America has it’s first Black President in office, we have transitioned into a post-racial society. If he can succeed, then …
[slidepress gallery=’katestone_attheseams’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls EPF 2010 Finalist Kate Stone At the Seams play this essay In “At the Seams” I used photographs of domestic interiors and common architecture to construct impossible, uncanny spaces that evoke a feeling of hesitant curiosity, a nervous desire to explore the …
[slidepress gallery=’dimagavrysh_inshallah’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT EPF 2010 Finalist Dima Gavrysh Insha’Allah play this essay I took a photograph of Captain Harris, the commander of Combat Outpost Tangi, in Afghanistan’s Wardak province, as he was waiting for a helicopter to take him to the …
[slidepress gallery=’EmileDubuisson_Siberia’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Emile Hyperion Dubuisson Siberia, the Far North play this essay I went to Siberia without a camera. I bought it there. I was eighteen. Before being there, I never photographed. After shooting these images, I did not photograph again for more than …
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[slidepress gallery=’matteich-carrymeohio’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls EPF 2010 Finalist Matt Eich Carry Me Ohio play this essay Once known for its bounty of coal, salt, clay and timber, Southeastern Ohio was stripped of its resources by the mining corporations that thrived from the 1820s to the 1960s. When …
