photographic essays

photographic essays

Valerio Spada – Gomorrah Girl

Valerio Spada Gomorrah Girl ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT It’s about adolescence, choices and chances in a land of Camorrah (the name of the Mafia in Naples). On March 27th, 2004, Annalisa Durante, at the age of 14, was killed in Forcella, a Naples area under the Giuliano clan’s egemony. Annalisa and two of her friends …

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Archival…

I took this picture the day after Christmas . I was playing dominos with my mother, when I noticed the light hitting just right on her wedding day picture. A very small simply framed b&w shot from a random off the street commercial photographer in San Francisco where my parents were married without ceremony as …

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Laura El-Tantawy – Cairo

Reda Abdelaziz Mohamed, 19, is seen before and after his injuries. He is seen a few months after earning his diploma in Tourism and Hotel Management, when he was 17, and a week after he lost sight in both eyes. photograph by LAURA EL-TANTAWY Reda Abdelaziz Mohamed is not crying. His left eye constantly weeps, …

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WALL FOR RIO AS OF DEC.19,2011

38 Responses to The Wall as of December 19th Gerhard says: December 19, 2011 at 1:56 pm  (Edit) Phenomenal! Have a safe trip back! Happy Holidays to the whole team! [Translate] Charles Peterson says: December 19, 2011 at 2:06 pm  (Edit) Great looking “wall.” Lots of fantastic images not seen before. I get the feeling that there …

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Tamas Dezso – Here, Anywhere

Tamad Dezso Here, Anywhere The map of Hungary is speckled with capsules of time. During the political transformation twenty years ago, as the country experienced change, some places were simply forgotten… Streets, blocks of flats, vacant sites and whole districts became little self-defined enclosures, in which today a certain out-dated, awkward, longed-to-be-forgotten Eastern European feeling …

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HOT COTTON

Shooting here in Rio is almost over. Actually I think it is over. I only have about five days left here and those days are mostly going to be taken up with organization. Yes, there is back end organization which is just as important as the front end. Since ONE NIGHT IN RIO is coming …

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Amnon Gutman – The Promised Land

Amnon Gutman The Promised Land ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT In June 2002, the government of Israel decided to erect a physical barrier to separate Israel and the West Bank in an attempt to minimize the entry of Palestinian terrorists into the country. This has partially solved today’s terrorist infiltration problem but has caused grief and …

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ONE NIGHT IN RIO

Here is just a quick sneak peak at what’s going on over at Rio Book. Honestly it is a rather amazing experience in all directions. This will never happen again. Anybody can see this is a one time event..Come on over and hang. For those of you who have never been here before, what is …

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