Sebastian Liste The Refuge [ EPF 2017 – HONORABLE MENTION ] When I was seventeen I fell in love with Laura. Then I met her family and the way they lived fascinated me. Twenty years ago, Laura’s parents, Anne and Ben, came to a small village in the Spanish countryside. There they began to …
Lily Zoumpouli Selinophilia [ EPF 2017 – FUJIFILM / YOUNG TALENT AWARD RUNNER UP ] Capturing glances of the moments that passed us by, in times when we were maybe too young to realise that they weren’t there to stay until eternity would have torn us apart. But still old enough to know they were worth …
Mayumi Suzuki The Restoration Will [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] My parents, who a owned photo studio, went missing after the 2011 tsunami. Our house was destroyed. It was a place for working, but also for living. I grew up there. After the disaster, I found my father’s lens, portfolio, and our family …
Mariya Kozhanova Declared Detachment [ EPF 2017 – HONORABLE MENTION ] The series “Declared Detachment” represents a generation of Russians which was born in times when well organized society and established identity fell apart. All myths and beliefs that were the driving force for generations before were destroyed. Children came into our …
Elena Anosova Out of the Way [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] The project was created on the far away territories of the Extreme North of Russia, where bad accessibility and isolation, special relationship with nature, and following the century-long ways of life involve unique mythology of the region where the fictional things are very …
Matt Eich I Love You, I’m Leaving [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] My introduction to photography was in childhood, as my grandmother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease. The hopelessness of her plight triggered something within me, and when my grandfather handed me a camera, making photographs became a way of stabilizing the insecurity of …
Marta Giaccone Systems of Harmony [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] Systems of Harmony is a personal portrait of 2016 suburban America. In the 19th century a large number of Europeans and Americans went to great lengths to establish small utopian communities throughout America. They were preachers, social reformers, industrialists, philosophers, anarchists, journalists and socialist …
Wiktoria Wojciechowska Sparks [ EPF 2017 – HONORABLE MENTION ] Sparks is a multi-dimensional portrait of a contemporary war in Europe, forgotten but still actual, the war in Ukraine. Ukrainians are fighting against the separatists, who are Ukrainians as well, driven by Russia’s influence and support. The core of the project is meeting victims of …
Sarah Pabst Zukunft [ EPF 2017 – HONORABLE MENTION ] I was still standing on a northern corner. Moonlit winter clouds the color of the desperation of wolves. Proof of Your existence? There is nothing but. (Franz Wright) Between 1933-1945 Germany and many parts of Europe were dominated by Nazism and World War II. 72 …
Aleksey Kondratyev was the recipient of the 2017 Fujifilm/Young Talent Award for this essay. This honor recognizes photographers under 25 and grants $5,000 from Fujifilm to continue the work. Aleksey Kondratyev Ice Fishers [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2017 WINNER ] For generations, Kazakh fishers have set out on to the frozen Ishim River in …
