photographic essays
[slidepress gallery=’jennackerman-trapped’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jenn Ackerman Trapped play this essay Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST (number two of eleven) The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into default mental health facilities. The system designed for security is now …
BURN is buzzing…..in New York…..now…. wherever i went at the recent New York Photo Festival in the last couple of days, BURN was the talk of the town…now yes of course it would SEEM like that to ME…..but, even factoring out the dah pride thing, BURN was buzzing….. however, forget that….the important thing right now …
[slidepress gallery=’chaskielberg-hightide’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Alejandro Chaskielberg The High Tide play this essay Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST (number one of eleven) With my photographs I create fictional scenarios with real people and situations. I try to explore the limits of documentary photography, using technical processes to …
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[kml_flashembed fversion=”9.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/hillaryatiyeh-inhotwater/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”551″] [/kml_flashembed] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Hillary Atiyeh In Hot Water Water, the essential element within all living things… in perpetual motion. Heat, from the core of the Earth… springs to the surface. A journey of our body & our community in nature through an inherent interconnection with …
Desert Storm by Sean Gallagher A man pushes his bike into a suffocating duststorm on the outskirts of the town of Hongsibao, in Ningxia Province in north-central China. Sand and duststorms have been one of the major problems as a result of desertification in China. As the spring winds blow, dry and degraded topsoil …
[slidepress gallery=’brentfoster-hellhole’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Brent Foster Hell Hole: Living On Jharia’s Fiery Mines play this essay I consider it hell on earth, literally. The smell, the smoke, the heat, the conditions. No human should have to live here, work here, grow up here, exist here, yet …
[slidepress gallery=’davidplummer-maisondelachance’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls David Plummer Maison De La Chance play this essay In the village churchyard there grows an old yew, Every spring it blossoms anew: Old passports can’t do that, my dear, old passports can’t do that. The consul banged the table and said, …
all i can say is that you rocked my boat……venues for young photographers may be changing drastically and unpredictably, but this new work i have seen over the last few weeks is shaking the ground of possibility for the future…..the clear authorship of these photographers who submitted EPF portfolios to BURN will become apparent to …
[kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/rodrigocruz-thepromisedland/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” bgcolor=”#262626″ publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”551″] [/kml_flashembed] Rodrigo Cruz The Promised Land Every year, thousands of Central Americans from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras illegally enter Mexico via the southern border with the goal of reaching the United States in search of a better life. The journey is long and full of …
My Daughter’s Question by Marc Davidson We buried the remains of a family dog today. It must have reminded our four year old daughter Laurence of last summer when we buried my father’s remains. Laurence has a vague understanding of death, or “going back to nature” as we have explained it to her; she …
