[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. …
Brides of March by Herve Blandin The Brides of March started as an annual Cacophony Society event that takes place in San Francisco around March 15th. Intended as a pun on the term Ides of March and a parody of weddings in western culture. The event, which began in 1999, is basically a pub …
The Warmth of Isolation by Vasilios Sfinarolakis We are never alone, but we are all lonely. Website: Vasilios Sfinarolakis
Los Emo Kids by David Gimenez At first sight, Valencia, located in the Spanish Mediterranean Coast, could give an impression of being a conservative city. But in Fallas, one of the most world popular Spanish festivities, everything changes, especially at night. The mixture of fireworks, typical costumes, food, chaos, friendship, religion, alcohol and drugs …
[slidepress gallery=’brianshumway-lachureca2′] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Brian Shumway La Chureca play this essay La Chureca (‘the scavenger’) is located in Managua, Nicaragua and is home to one of the largest inhabited dump communities in the world. With a population of 1700 housed within its walls, over fifty percent …
C’est Tout by Jan Smith There is a certain glory in what is constructed being defeated by the forces of time. Void of human habitation, a patina of self-identity emerges from the structures and substitutes the original man-made baptism of name and function. These spaces anthropomorphize when they are empty. When we enter them, …
