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Terje Abusdal – The Forest Finns

Terje Abusdal The Forest Finns [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] Finnskogen – directly translated as The Forest of the Finns – is a large, contiguous forest belt along the Norwegian-Swedish border, where farming families from Finland settled in the early 1600s. The immigrants – called Forest Finns – were slash-and-burn farmers. This ancient agricultural …

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Lukas Vasilikos – Uncanny

Lukas Vasilikos Uncanny In the beginning there is emptiness and darkness. The light seems to be hovering over the the surface of this formless void. Light is ordered to descend, for light is said to be good. It is a blow which separates the light from the darkness and, thus, the first day is born. …

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Rachel Cox – Shiny Ghost

Rachel Cox Shiny Ghost In this project I have documented the final years of my Grandmother’s life as she was suffering from a degenerative brain disease. The images were made during moments of conversation, gesture, and experiences of death. The variety of photographic approaches towards the subjects are representative of a frantic need to record all …

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Sabrina Caramanico – Circus

Sabrina Caramanico Circus [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] This journey starts in the past when, as a child, I was fascinated to see the “great creature” come to life and where strange and controversial things happen inside. The Circus is a magical, mysterious and strange world where light and darkness alternate to give life …

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Annika Derksen – De Rijs

Annika Derksen De Rijs [ FUJILFILM / YOUNG TALENT 2017 – SHORT LIST ] I have worked on a project named ‘De Rijs’ revolving around the book The Voyage of Saint Brendan. The novel revolves around Saint Brendan an Irish Monk from Galway. According to legend he read a book on the miracles of creation …

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Lionel Jusseret – Kinderszenen

Lionel Jusseret Kinderszenen [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] Inspired by Fernand Deligny anti-psychiatric research, the French association J’interviendrais offers kids with deep autism to live collectively in different country houses. Out of the walls, we walk off the path, cross wild torrents or look for abandoned houses to make drawings with color chalks. For them, a break. For …

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(This is Brandise Danesewich @antimodel for Burn Diary this week traveling to Oaxaca, Mexico. Day 11/711:11 CST 11/5Coyoacán. Just out wandering aimlessly in the streets. My inner city intuition compass is pretty in tune now despite having not really slept much in the past week. But the lack of sleep and addition of techno cafe …

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