Month: July 2012

Jim Estrin

Jim Estrin – Conversation

A Conversation with Jim Estrin, New York Times Lens Blog   David Alan Harvey: You will be the third photographer in a row that I have interviewed, who I know as photographers and who have evolved and are now editors/decision makers. Anyway, I knew your credit line so I think of you as a photographer, …

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Anastasia Taylor-Lind – The National Womb: Baby Boom in Nagorno Karabakh

Anastasia Taylor Lind The National Womb: Baby Boom In Nagorno Karabakh [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT In 2008 Nagorno Karabakh’s de facto government introduced the ‘birth encouragement program’ which distributes cash payments to newlyweds for each baby born, with the aim of repopulating the region after the devastating 1991-1994 war. The …

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Ian Willms – Fort Chipewyan

Ian Willms Fort Chipewyan [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] If anyone would listen, the First Nations peoples in Fort Chipewyan, Canada, would tell them about an ongoing ‘slow motion cultural genocide’. The isolated indigenous reserves of Northern Alberta are watching their land become unlivable as their communities are slowly poisoned by the world’s largest and …

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Gustavo Jononovich – Richland

Gustavo Jononovich Richland [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT RICHLAND is my first long-term book project about the over-exploitation of the natural resources in Latin America and the resulting long-term negative effects, both human and environmental. The push for accelerated world economic growth has led to increasing demand for natural resources. Rather …

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