photographic essays
many of you have seen this book before, but i am sure many of you have not….my first work in print….i publish it again here now only because my friend Masaaki Okada, who was the designer/editor, died on December 21….Masaaki was a tremendous influence on me as a person and as a photographer….my first collaborator… …
EDITOR’S NOTE: this is a guest post by Lassal and Haik, two BURN participants who have organized a birthday surprise from all involved with BURN Magazine… After a few weeks of conspiracy, Lassal’s and Civi’s unrelated cryptic comments it is time to unveil. Operation “BURN plot” was made by BURNIANS for BURNIANS and is to …
dreams, fantasies, and idealizations….all ethereal in nature….and hardly anything one can grasp or hold onto…yet, this is what i live for and form the basic building blocks for anything i have ever done….the starting point….and what always keep me going…my crazy ideas are usually just that…gone with the wind…however, sometimes and only sometimes , does …
[kml_flashembed fversion=”9.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/charliemahoney-atroubledparadise/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” bgcolor=”#262626″ publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”551″ allowFullScreen=”True” allowScriptAccess=”Always”] [/kml_flashembed] Charlie Mahoney A Troubled Paradise Climate change is a difficult subject to treat visually, because much of the expected damage is still yet to come. We just haven’t seen many direct victims of climate change…at least not yet. As a result, I …
Five’ explores the power of ambiguity, minimalism and ‘the frame’ in photography. It develops concepts of implied narrative to communicate, amongst other things, darkness and danger. Whilst the specific places that were visited are, conceptually speaking, irrelevant, there is an inherent sympathy for that which is stagnant, abandoned or neutered by various external forces. …
[slidepress gallery=’lilaschaffler_mycollections’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Lila Schaffler My Collections play this essay Remember the story of that old photograph? It was taken at some show in the run-down Bowery years ago. There’s this boy sitting in the middle of some trashed mosh pit …
looks like a burned out rock band doesn’t it? i was playing with my toy Instax instant film camera today and did set up this shot of Anton Kusters, Mike Courvoisier (he does not seem to have moved from his position in the last picture), Chris Bickford and the ubiquitous John Gladdy…all hanging around waiting …
Untitled by Imants Krumins … thought about it………… I should buy a pair of goal posts for the backyard ………….. instead of kicking my soul aimlessly . . Bio: …………………. lived most of my life in Australia Exhibited on the Continent, The New World and The Old World ………. No awards prizes etc …
Mike and Mike….yes, there they are…Mike Young on the left and Mike Courvoisier on the right…cold Coronas both and hanging out at my loft..as usual…some of the best late afternoon light that always floods my apartment has been shared by the two Mikes and yours truly…discussing life, love, and yes, books…Michael Loyd Young, the guy …
