Month: February 2009

lisa wiltse – teen pregnancy

[slidepress gallery=’lisawiltse-teenpregnancy’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Lisa Wiltse Teen Pregnancy play this essay   “The one who got me pregnant was my cousin. He is not my boyfriend. In one bed, there are three of us…I am the only girl beside two boys…The one who got me pregnant is …

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max sher – dmitry

  Dmitry by Max Sher Dmitry, a student of the Vyksa Religious School, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia, poses for picture in his class. An Orthodox religious school prepares boys for entering the seminaries and trains girls as church choir singers. There is a heated debate in Russia these days on whether to include religious subjects …

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james chance – the dead

[slidepress gallery=’jameschance-livingwith’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls James Chance Living With The Dead: Manila’s North Cemetery play this essay   In the middle of the bustling Philippine city of Manila, home to almost 11 million people, lies the North Cemetery. Founded in 1904, it is the final resting place for …

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clear eyes…

i read carefully all of your comments on our last two essayists, Michael Christopher Brown and James Chance….both received almost unanimous “thumbs up” votes from the readers here on the essays presented…both are working in the documentary style of “bearing witness”, and yet this seems to be a good time to point out how quite …

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raul touzon – path to the ring

[slidepress gallery=’raultouzon-pathtothering’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Raul Touzon Path To The Ring play this essay   Blood and glory, for who, the bull or the “novillero”? I met this troupe of young Mexican bullfighters one February afternoon in San Miguel de Allende. Their bravery and unparalleled commitment to the …

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michael c. brown – sakhalin

[slidepress gallery=’michaelchristopherbrown-sakhalin’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Michael Christopher Brown Sakhalin play this essay   Photographed predominantly in the broken, rusted, skeletons of communities around Sakhalin Island, Russia, these images explore the enigmatic spirit of a place and its people, long scarred from the Soviet era and left behind in …

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grace kim – love hotel

[slidepress gallery=’gracekim-lovehotel’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Grace Kim Love Hotel play this essay   Love hotels in South Korea are commonly known to be where lovers go to carry on secret affairs. I was given access to photograph the rooms of a love hotel in Seoul after couples had …

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giovanni cocco – sick girl

[slidepress gallery=’giovannicocco-sickgirls’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Giovanni Cocco Sick Girl play this essay   Naughty and irresistible Italian girls –  free and cunningly organized. They came into being because of an urge to tear to pieces boredom and well-meaning prissiness, they are the pissed-off daughters of the fifties pin-ups. …

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