[slidepress gallery=’katiaroberts_yourdarkeuphoria’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Katia Roberts Your Dark Euphoria play this essay They wanted to flower, and flowering is being beautiful. But we want to ripen, and that means being dark and taking pains. -Rainer Maria Rilke In 2004, I met a young …
[slidepress gallery=’patrickhogan_solitaryhalfmad’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Patrick Hogan Solitary, Half Mad play this essay A photographic short story. When I began this essay, I decided to move from the urban area where I had been living to a small cottage in rural Ireland. I was interested in people who …
[slidepress gallery=’vladimirvasilev_lifeinconcrete’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Vladimir Vasilev Life in…concrete play this essay A concrete city of Bulgaria’s post-communist world – this is my homeland. It is real, without any decor. The unfinished transition to a European way of life is a bitter reality that cannot be hidden – …
[slidepress gallery=’matteoarmellini_simon’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Matteo Armellini Simon / Story of a Softgunner play this essay In these years of virtual reality, where children have stopped playing war in the courtyard and do it in front of the computer instead, there are those who don’t want to miss …
[slidepress gallery=’samharris_postcardsfromhome’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Sam Harris Postcards from Home (2008 – 2011) play this essay Postcards from Home revolves around my domestic life and especially focuses on my two daughters Uma & Yali growing up. After several nomadic years, we migrated to Australia in 2008. It was …
[slidepress gallery=’michaelkircher_potomacgorge’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Michael Kircher Potomac Gorge play this essay “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” — Thoreau For me there is no better place to stretch myself as a photographer than in the natural world. Just minutes outside of Washington, DC is the dramatic …
[slidepress gallery=’williameckersleyalexandershields_u-s-80′] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls William Eckersley and Alexander Shields U.S.80 play this essay These photographs are from a recently completed body of work, titled U.S.80. U.S.80 was the first coast-to-coast highway in America, pre-dating even the fabled Route 66. It spans nearly 3,000 miles between Savannah, Georgia …
[slidepress gallery=’leameilandt_themaguires’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Lea Meilandt The Maguires play this essay The number of poor families in the United States is growing rapidly these years. Unemployment and expensive housing makes it almost impossible for families all over the country to make ends meet and create a stable …
[slidepress gallery=’sarakatz_themanbehindthecurtain’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Sara Katz The Man Behind the Curtain play this essay When I was growing up, and my dad got into any sort of argument with my mom over something banal (the most common cause being a joke deemed too off-color, annoying, childish, …
[slidepress gallery=’brandangomez_thingsthatneverhappened’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Brandan Gomez Things That Never Happened play this essay These are the images of what never happened, but should have. They express what really moves the world: desires, deep desires that start forming in your early years, and crystallize inside your chest when …
