photographic essays
Amur Leopard by Andrew Harrington Amur leopards are the world’s rarest cat. Between 25 and 40 remain in the wild. Can you remember how many kids were in your class at school? Imagine that’s the whole human race, it is not a good place to be. The population has been stable for the last …
[kml_flashembed fversion=”9.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/markovaska-cityinmourning/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”566″] [/kml_flashembed] Mark Ovaska City In Mourning On April 3rd, 2009 Jiverly Wong, depressed by economic hardship and aggravated by his poor English language skills, walked into the American Civic Association in Binghamton, N.Y. and opened fire. Within moments 13 victims were dead. As news of the …
Maria Burns is my next door neighbor…literally….and a photographer….and an erstwhile student at the International Center of Photography here in New York….Maria is Swiss and a finer neighbor one could not have…i just took this picture tonight after returning to NYC from the Carolina shore…..so i was leaving home and coming home at the same …
[slidepress gallery=’paulrussell-besidethesea’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Paul Russell Beside The Sea play this essay Why the seaside? Well, I grew up in a little seaside town and spent a lot of time wandering around and around, even in the dead of winter. And now I find myself back …
[slidepress gallery=’sigurdfandango-fastfoodheroes’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Sigurd Fandango Fast Food Heroes play this essay They may not be paid very well, and the hours might be long. But behind the counters of McDonalds, Rays Pizza and other more anonymous fast food joints I found the workers to have …
As Light Shines on thy Thigh by Anton Kusters Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo – Going deeper underground… Walking the streets with Soichiro and his family. Kabukicho is the red light, food & gambling district of Shinjuku, smack in the middle of Tokyo. We gather at his office, where he shows me the work of …
[slidepress gallery=’angelabaconkidwell-travelingdream’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Angela Bacon-Kidwell Traveling Dream play this essay My photography comes from a life long obsession of exploring how my subconscious generates my dreams. As I move through my day, I am keenly aware of my encounters with people, places and things. I …
Untitled, Greece by Young Tom “Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light. I couldn’t ask for more, nor did I want any thing more. I had everything a man could desire, and I knew it. I …
[kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/carlantapp-tva/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” bgcolor=”#262626″ publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”777″] [/kml_flashembed] Carlan Tapp – Clean Coal TVA Ash Spill For the past five years much of my work has focused around the social cost of producing energy in the USA. I continue to work in the Four Corners area of the Southwest on the Navajo Nation striving …
Buceros bicornis by Peter Tonningsen This image is from my series, Descent which is an immersion into the visual pathos of an analytical world; a mournful ballad resulting from a marriage of art and science that began when I was invited to come to U.C. Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology to draw …
