Month: May 2009

tatiana grigorenko – missing link [EPF Finalist]

[slidepress gallery=’tatianagrigorenko-missinglink’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Tatiana Grigorenko Missing Link play this essay   Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST (number six of eleven) My parents fled the Soviet Union in 1976, where they had been dissidents, their families persecuted and imprisoned many times over. They ended up in New …

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eric espinosa – lords of the ring [EPF Finalist]

[slidepress gallery=’ericespinosa-lordsofthering2′] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Eric Espinosa Lords Of The Ring play this essay   Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST (number five of eleven) Bert Randolph Sugar, one of the greatest boxing writers, says that “to understand boxing, one must understand its roots. From its beginnings, the sport …

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michael christopher brown – sakhalin [EPF Finalist]

[slidepress gallery=’michaelbrown-sakhalin2′] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Michael Christopher Brown Sakhalin play this essay   Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST (number four of eleven) Introduction: Photographed predominantly in the broken, rusted, skeletons of communities around Sakhalin Island, Russia, these images explore the wintry atmosphere of a remote land and its …

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jenn ackerman – trapped [EPF Finalist]

[slidepress gallery=’jennackerman-trapped’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jenn Ackerman Trapped play this essay   Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST (number two of eleven) The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into  default mental health facilities. The system designed for security is now …

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buzz..

BURN is buzzing…..in New York…..now…. wherever i went at the recent New York Photo Festival in the last couple of days, BURN was the talk of the town…now yes of course it would SEEM like that to ME…..but, even factoring out the dah pride thing, BURN was buzzing….. however, forget that….the important thing right now …

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alejandro chaskielberg – the high tide [EPF Finalist]

[slidepress gallery=’chaskielberg-hightide’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Alejandro Chaskielberg The High Tide play this essay   Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST  (number one of eleven) With my photographs I create fictional scenarios with real people and situations. I try to explore the limits of documentary photography, using technical processes to …

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hillary atiyeh – in hot water…

[kml_flashembed fversion=”9.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/hillaryatiyeh-inhotwater/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”551″] [/kml_flashembed] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Hillary Atiyeh In Hot Water   Water, the essential element within all living things… in perpetual motion. Heat, from the core of the Earth… springs to the surface. A journey of our body & our community in nature through an inherent interconnection with …

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sean gallagher – desert storm

  Desert Storm by Sean Gallagher A man pushes his bike into a suffocating duststorm on the outskirts of the town of Hongsibao, in Ningxia Province in north-central China. Sand and duststorms have been one of the major problems as a result of desertification in China. As the spring winds blow, dry and degraded topsoil …

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brent foster – hell hole

[slidepress gallery=’brentfoster-hellhole’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Brent Foster Hell Hole: Living On Jharia’s Fiery Mines play this essay   I consider it hell on earth, literally. The smell, the smoke, the heat, the conditions. No human should have to live here, work here, grow up here, exist here, yet …

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