Alain Laboile Quotidian [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] In his giant outdoor studio where he controls space, time and light, Alain Laboile watches his six children. He captures moments of nothing, the unexpected as the expected, the blooming as the outbreak, imagination as banality. His tracking shots put everything on hold: the passage …
Brooklynn Kascel Fear/Loving : A personal narrative of aging, intimacy and separation [ FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2017 – SHORT LIST ] Fear/Loving is a self-reflective body of work, encompassing experiences shared by those closest to me. Fear of abandonment has been a weight I have carried my entire life, emerging into reality during …
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Bayu Wira Handyan Three Weeks, Melancholia [FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2017 – SHORT LIST ] My work presents the questions about existence of life and the things related with solitude. The solitude that causes feelings of anxiety, worry, and fear that led to a melancholia. My pictures are a result of myths that exist in …
Joan Alvado Cuban Muslims, Tropical Faith [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] Cuba is one of the last countries in the world where Islam has entered. Although is still widely unknown, the number of Cubans embracing Islam has constantly increased in the recent years. This growth is strongly linked with the current scenario of …
Karl Mancini Amores Perros In Buenos Aires the dirty waters of Riachuelo delimit borders and people who have their houses in its proximity live in alarming conditions. On one side it is Capital Federal, on the other it is Avellaneda, here Buenos Aires, there the Province. One of the suburbs on the river is …
Ekkarat Punyatara Black Day Thailand is one of the last countries in the world that most of the people still have so much love for the king. The king is the soul of the nation. I grew up in Thailand. As a Thai, I thought I had known well about the love of Thai people …
David Arribas González Scars / Cicatrices [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] Spain is one of the few countries where the hunting with greyhounds is a legal activity. What was a way of survival for the familiar core in rural areas, now (when it is not a vital activity anymore) has been reinvented and …
Loulou d’Aki Down by the Water [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] The first times I went to Iran I did so to work on a personal project about Iranian youth and their aspirations as a part of a larger project I was working on across the Middle East. My subjects and I spent …
Anton Polyakov & Anna Galatonova Mahala In the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union was about to collapse and Moldova proclaimed its independence, one of the regions of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic decided to go another way. Self-proclaimed republic of Transnistria is an approximately 200-km-long sliver of territory along the left bank of …
Juan Pablo Bellandi Endless Countenances [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] Countenances because the wheel of the imminent is so brutal that the “Great Picture” is sterile in front of the overwhelming human tragedy. Mothers waiting for murdered sons at the gates of overcrowded morgues under the Caribbean heat. Who find their own unhuman pain …
