photographic essays
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 …
[kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/yuliaserdyukova-cosmos/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”551″] [/kml_flashembed] <p style=”font-size: 14px; line-height: 1px; font-weight: normal;”>Yulia Serdyukova</p> <p style=”font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; font-weight: normal; padding-top: 3px;”>Cosmos</p> Gagarin’s flight to outer space in 1961 marked the beginning of the “space boom” in the USSR. Epic drive to the space …
Fast Food Worker by Sigurd Fandango http://www.fandangophoto.com editors note: this photograph was turned in during my class this morning by Sigurd who is doing a portrait essay on fast food …
finally….springtime…i do not know about you, but for me spring just does not come quite quick enough….spring brings hope and promise and well, just warmer weather is just fine with me….and spring is just the time to clean house….throw out all the junk one accumulates over the winter…both physical and psychological ….time for us to …
To Have and Not to Hold Self Portrait by Daria Endresen Website: Daria Endresen
[slidepress gallery=’brentfoster-kashmir’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Brent Foster Kashmir’s Half Widows play this essay Estimates range between 2000 and 6000 women do not know the whereabouts of their husbands. They are Kashmir’s Half Widows, women whose spouses have disappeared during the conflict. Some have been killed by security …
[slidepress gallery=’audreybardou-brigitteandbernard’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Audrey Bardou Brigitte et Bernard play this essay I’d like to introduce you to my parents Brigitte and Bernard; exceptional, yet anonymous They aren’t exceptional in the sense that we hear about them in our society, but in the the values that …
NYU’s Department of Photography & Imaging announces a new program in photography and human rights in partnership with the Magnum Foundation The Department of Photography and Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, has announced a new partnership with the Magnum Foundation, a non-profit …
[slidepress gallery=’yurytoropstov-marilyn’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Yury Toropstov Marilyn And I play this essay “Marilyn and I” is a tribute to Marilyn Monroe and her fans. It started in 2005 when I got access to an authentic summer dress from the personal wardrobe of Marilyn Monroe. It became …
Cluster Bomb Survivor by Laura Boushnak Mohammed’s prosthetic legs lay on the sofa at his home in the Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidiyeh in Tyre. Mohammed lost both legs when he was sitting behind his father on a motorbike and drove over a cluster bomb near Tyre in the last week of Israel-Hezbollah war. …
