Month: October 2009

michael mullady – children of lead

[slidepress gallery=’michaelmullady-childrenoflead’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Michael Mullady Children of Lead play this essay   At an altitude slightly above twelve thousand feet, in the Central Andean region of Peru, pollution is a fact of life for the inhabitants of La Oroya. Since 1922, the city of La Oroya …

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la familia abrazada

[slidepress gallery=’lafamiliaabrazada’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Curated Group of Photographers La Familia Abrazada play this essay   La Familia Abrazada is a curated group dedicated to family and vernacular photography. The photographs chosen for this show are a cross section of styles and subject matter that aims to be …

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brennan o’connor – on the run

[slidepress gallery=’brennanoconnor-ontherun’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Brennan O’Connor On The Run play this essay   ‘On the Run’ documents tribal groups from Burma who have been pushed off their land by the junta. Some of them have moved to rebel controlled zones. Other groups like the Karen have left …

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carl bower – chica barbie

[slidepress gallery=’carlbower-chicabarbie’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Carl Bower Chica Barbie play this essay   The pageants of Colombia are a petri dish for examining the nature of beauty and how we cope with adversity.  Set against a backdrop of poverty, crime, and the hemisphere’s longest running civil war, nowhere …

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audrey bardou – brigitte et bernard

Brigitte et Bernard by Audrey Bardou New images as part of the “Brigitte et Bernard” essay, previously featured here on BURN: www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/03/audrey-bardou-brigitte-and-bernard/ From time to time, we will feature updates from previous stories as “Work in Progress”. Website: Audrey Bardou

BURN magazine receives Lucie Award

No cameras allowed at the ceremony, but Kerry Payne managed to sneak out a tiny iPhone pic… Needless to say, we are so very humbled by this award…Photography Magazine of the Year 2009 www.lucieawards.com -david alan harvey (editor), anton kusters (creative director)

john busch – breaking & entering

[slidepress gallery=’johnbusch-breaking’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls John Busch Breaking & Entering play this essay   This incense just floats away.  I cannot track it; it burns and goes. All of my moustaches have come and gone, I burn them on my face, they become gone and sometimes they return, …

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louise chin & ignacio aronovich – after the fire

[kml_flashembed fversion=”9.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/swf_essays/after_the_fire_burn.swf” targetclass=”flashmovie” publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”665″] [/kml_flashembed] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Louise Chin & Ignacio Aronovich After The Fire   We read about the fire on twitter before it was on the news.  We drove to the “favela” (slum), about fifteen minutes from our house, and found the …

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talia herman – west county

[slidepress gallery=’taliaherman-westcounty’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Talia Herman West County play this essay   This photo essay is of western Sonoma County in rural Northern California. Central to this story is Guerneville, a former logging and current resort town of about 2,400. Located just 60 …

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