Nicholas Constant (Untitled) [ 2018 FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD SHORTLIST ] My Grandmother’s father and brother were both beheaded by the Japanese during the occupation of Malaysia from 1941 to 1945 during WWII for being Chinese. This meant she had to flee the country with her mother at the age of 3. With this …
Mathias Depardon Gold Rivers [ EPF 2018 SHORTLIST ] The history of the Mesopotamian rivers and their presence in our own cultural history may be one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world, spanning some, 10,000 years of world heritage. In the 4th millennium BCE, the first literate societies emerged in Southern Mesopotamia, …
Sébastien Van Malleghem Nordic Noir An artistic residence in Norway (Halsnoy Cloister, 2013) ignites a passion with the North. Iceland, then Scandinavia further fuels the flame, revealing a personal confrontation with an endless space, a passionate and brutal encounter. Captivated by the Scandinavian lands from a residence in Norway, Sébastien Van Malleghem has since advanced …
Andrew Sullivan Endangered Species Mexico’s murder rate went up 16% in the first half of 2018, a grim statistic that suggested this year would be the bloodiest in the country’s history. Time magazine approximated that someone was killed every 15 minutes in May. Where I live in Mexico has the reputation of being a …
Yorgos Yatromanolakis The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings ‘The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings’ arose from my unforeseen return to my homeland and my residence there for four years. Isolated in the countryside of the island, I was constantly confronted with my traumatic …
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M.H. Frøslev Unsettled City Unsettled City is a journey of a human in a metropolis. It portrays despair and love in a place where life at times can be very uncertain. The book is a personal depiction of a claustrophobic environment with the cityscape as framework, captured in the cities of Saint Petersburg …
Yiota Tsokou The Distance I don’t need you – please stay. I keep at arm’s length, as though I were a ghost stuck between two worlds. I linger in this moment and time is frozen. I have overanalyzed reality – cut it into little pieces – and now everything lies shattered; deformed. The …
Jake Borden In Ruins – Displaced Georgians in Tbilisi [ FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2018 SHORTLIST ] On the outskirts of Georgia’s capital, Tblisi, an abandoned military hospital from the bygone Soviet era serves as a refuge to some one hundred and fifty families unable to find jobs and affordable housing. Tweny-five years after …
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Anneke Paterson Growing Pains [ FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2018 SHORTLIST ] These are the things I wish to keep, though I know I can’t. My generation is saying goodbye to its favorite places, even entire neighborhoods with cultural significance; the remnants of our childhoods are an Austin that seems too far gone. Some …
Abhishek Basu The Rum Diary [ EPF 2018 SHORTLIST ] The Rum Diary adopts the tone of a scrapbook whose dog-eared pages are found yellowing inside the baggy jeans pocket of many a photographer searching for their decisive moments. How long do you hold out your fishing rod in still water without conjuring up images …
