photographic essays
Coffee and Tattoos by Anton Kusters Kaicho lies motionless, silently enduring the pain. Sensei Horiyoshi applies the tattoo manually, according to ancient traditions, and with his own prepared colors. Although it is said to be less painful than a modern tattoo, the sheer size and complexity of the artwork is daunting. The skillset involved …
[slidepress gallery=’janadamski-mayancosmos’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jan Adamski Mayan Cosmos play this essay The Mayan people for more than half a century have been separated from their true identity. The Maya are founders of infinite doctrines in the development of the human being in the search for his …
[slidepress gallery=’araoshagan-fatherland’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Ara Oshagan Father:Land play this essay My father died in June 2000. A few years before that, he and I decided to embark on a project about Karabagh: a remote mountainous area next to Armenia. A region where the Armenians fought and …
[slidepress gallery=’manuelgarcia-georgiacolors’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Manuel Garcia The Georgia Colors play this essay I think that first and foremost I like to watch the world in all its complexity. I get dragged to places where, despite of the stories of misery and war, life still goes on. …
[slidepress gallery=’evemorgenstern-abandonment’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Eve Morgenstern Abandonment And Foreclosure play this essay The recent foreclosure crises has spread like a pandemic across the country, wreaking havoc on cities and their neighborhoods and leaving abandoned homes to begin their process of neglect and decline. It is not …
[slidepress gallery=’brentlewin-bodycollectors’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Brent Lewin Body Collectors play this essay The Por Tek Tung Foundation is Bangkok’s largest provider of emergency medical services (EMS) and is made up mainly of volunteers who have regular jobs during the day but moonlight as …
Wall of Death by Jonnek Jonneksson This photo is taken at a traditional motorcycle show that takes place since 1930 in USA, Great Britain and some countries in the Balkans. It’s called “Wall of Death”, as the man who rides the motorcycle and overriding the law of gravity climbing on a vertical wall, risks his …
Self Portrait 1 by Carrie Roseman This photograph is part of a long term self-portrait project that I started during David Alan Harvey and James Nachtwey’s LOOK3 workshop, aptly entitled “The Art of the Photographic Essay”. The subject of the essay that I would create eluded me until the start of the workshop. Really …
[slidepress gallery=’charbonneaufrench-massillon’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jeff Charbonneau $ Eliza French Massillon play this essay Massillon is a group of performance-based pictures loosely inspired by the life of one of our ancestors who lived and died in Massillon, Ohio at the turn of the 20th century. We are …
[slidepress gallery=’rafalpruszynski-riverside’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Rafal Pruszynski Riverside play this essay I shot “Riverside” at the same time as I shot Little Pieces of us, and both are still on-going projects. The shooting, and showing of Pieces was a very intense experience since it was highly personal …
