Month: December 2009

beso darchia – stigma

[slidepress gallery=’besodarchia_stigma’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Beso Darchia Stigma play this essay   The dire economic situation in Georgia has left the population of the country without any protection that would be provided by Government. Socially unprotected groups of society were among the ones most affected, their survival left …

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jonathon bowman – monkey business

[slidepress gallery=’jonathonbowman_monkeybusiness’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jonathon Bowman Monkey Business play this essay   I began taking photos at the monkey houses at the zoo, fascinated by the inner lives of our genetic relatives. I soon realized that what I found compelling in the photos I had been taking …

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face…

many of you have seen this book before, but i am sure many of you have not….my first work in print….i publish it again here now only because my friend Masaaki Okada, who was the designer/editor, died on December 21….Masaaki was a tremendous influence on me as a person and as a photographer….my first collaborator… …

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burnians…

EDITOR’S NOTE: this is a guest post by Lassal and Haik, two BURN participants who have organized a birthday surprise from all involved with BURN Magazine… After a few weeks of conspiracy, Lassal’s and Civi’s unrelated cryptic comments it is time to unveil. Operation “BURN plot” was made by BURNIANS for BURNIANS and is to …

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a collectors’ edition…

dreams, fantasies, and idealizations….all ethereal in nature….and hardly anything one can grasp or hold onto…yet, this is what i live for and form the basic building blocks for anything i have ever done….the starting point….and what always keep me going…my crazy ideas are usually just that…gone with the wind…however, sometimes and only sometimes , does …

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charlie mahoney – a troubled paradise

[kml_flashembed fversion=”9.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/charliemahoney-atroubledparadise/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” bgcolor=”#262626″ publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”551″ allowFullScreen=”True” allowScriptAccess=”Always”] [/kml_flashembed]   Charlie Mahoney A Troubled Paradise   Climate change is a difficult subject to treat visually, because much of the expected damage is still yet to come. We just haven’t seen many direct victims of climate change…at least not yet. As a result, I …

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christopher young – five #08

  Five’ explores the power of ambiguity, minimalism and ‘the frame’ in photography. It develops concepts of implied narrative to communicate, amongst other things, darkness and danger. Whilst the specific places that were visited are, conceptually speaking, irrelevant, there is an inherent sympathy for that which is stagnant, abandoned or neutered by various external forces. …

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lila schaffler – my collections

[slidepress gallery=’lilaschaffler_mycollections’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Lila Schaffler My Collections play this essay   Remember the story of that old photograph? It was taken at some show in the run-down Bowery years ago. There’s this boy sitting in the middle of some trashed mosh pit …

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burn band…

looks like a burned out rock band doesn’t it? i was playing with my toy Instax instant film camera today and did set up this shot of Anton Kusters, Mike Courvoisier (he does not seem to have moved from his position in the last picture), Chris Bickford and the ubiquitous John Gladdy…all hanging around waiting …

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