Comments on: Alicia Vera – Eden https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/12/alicia-vera-eden/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:32:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/12/alicia-vera-eden/#comment-265746 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:17:19 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20222#comment-265746 Alicia, I follow you on Instagram and “like” your pictures there, but now I see who you really are as a photographer and am blown away! “Eden” is a powerful portrait of a young woman’s journey to finding herself. Like her mother, I may find some of her choices not to my liking but what you do here is help me respect Eden’s right to live her own life as she must. You bring an artistic, compassionate, non-judgement eye to this project and that is what makes it work. Just keep doing what you’re doing, dig ever more deeply and show us all sides of Eden’s life. As she says, she is daughter, sister, friend, artist and provider of sex for money. If you can show us her well-rounded life you will be breaking the stereotype of sex worker as subject of photo essay. Forge on…

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By: Thomas Bregulla https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/12/alicia-vera-eden/#comment-265428 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:17:53 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20222#comment-265428 @Brian, of course I cannot answer your questions, but if you read “11 Minutes” by Paolo Coelho, could give you a hint into a direction.

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By: Brian Frank https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/12/alicia-vera-eden/#comment-265047 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:43:09 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20222#comment-265047 A couple questions that seem to be nagging me a bit. First, why was it her dream to be an exotic dancer? Where did that come from? Second, why did she make the move to being an escort? Was the promise of money too great?

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By: Brian Frank https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/12/alicia-vera-eden/#comment-265012 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:12:04 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20222#comment-265012 #20 where she is bored at work is so incredibly telling.

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By: Cesar https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/12/alicia-vera-eden/#comment-261576 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:57:40 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20222#comment-261576 Great job!. Very close and intimate. I particularly like pictures 2 (with the cardboard sign “hanlde with care”), 7 (out of focus, but full of tenderness) and 21 (innocent rest after a hard life).
cheers

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By: paultreacy.com https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/12/alicia-vera-eden/#comment-260368 Wed, 01 Jan 2014 21:40:21 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20222#comment-260368 Am keen to see how this project pans out. Marvellous start. Very intimate and gentle. Good luck to all concerned.

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By: alicia vera - eden | Photography - Street - Por... https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/12/alicia-vera-eden/#comment-260079 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:12:57 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20222#comment-260079 […] “Nobody IS what they DO, but whatever we do becomes a part of us. I am a woman, a daughter, a sister, a friend, an artist, and a provider of sex in exchange for money. Although I set aside pieces of myself to protect them, I do not disappear. The daughter, sister, friend, and artist that I am outside of work will always carry around the memories and lessons I’ve gained.” – Eden, 21  […]

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By: Jonathan VDK https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/12/alicia-vera-eden/#comment-260078 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:12:41 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20222#comment-260078 Such a calm story and I would rarely use the word ‘calm’ in the same sentence with ‘prostitutes’ or ‘sex industry’. :)

I agree that using Eden’s journals would enhance the story even more. This looks like the start of an awesome book.

Well done.

J.

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/12/alicia-vera-eden/#comment-259817 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 06:43:30 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=20222#comment-259817 Alicia – Many photographers do essays on prostitutes. You are doing an essay on a human being, unlike any other I have seen. Keep going.

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