Iveta Vaivode Somewhere on Disappearing Path [ EPF 2013 RECIPIENT ] I’ve always been fascinated with family albums. I grew up looking at my parent’s family albums, imagining their lives before me. Trying to reconstruct the memories that I didn’t have, but at the same time living them over and over again in my imagination. …
Diana Markosian My Father The Stranger [ EPF 2013 RECIPIENT ] I knocked on the door of a stranger. I’ve traveled halfway around the world to meet him. My father. I was seven years old when I last saw him. As the Soviet Union collapsed, so did my family. I remember my father and I …
EPF 2013 WINNERS Diana Markosian, winner Iveta Vaivode, runner-up Oksana Yushko, runner-up Maciej Pisuk, runner-up EPF 2013 FINALISTS (in alphabetical order) Javier Arcenillas David Favrod Dimitris Michalakis Mads Nissen Fausto Podavini Bryan Schutmaat The full essays of the winners and finalists will be published on BURN over the next few days. Stay tuned! …
Joshua Dwain Frith, Kate McElwee, and Verna Pitts At Home w/ David Alan Harvey Workshop play this essay above I have decided to occasionally publish here on Burn, work from students I have in workshops…With their work from the 5 days of shooting customary in most workshops…The three students here were all in …
Jisu Ashram Jisu Ashram Only a hundred miles from Kolkata, but immersed in a jungle in which time seems to stand still, a Jesuit missionary group has expanded the meaning of being called “parents”. In its mission “Jisu Ashram” hosts over a hundred children from families of agriculturists of lower castes. There are a thousand children …
Valentina Quintano In The Absence of Things ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Murmansk (Russia) The project ‘In The Absence Of Things’ explores life in darkness and the difficulties of true communication between people. Every year the city of Murmansk (because of its arctic latitude) descends into darkness for forty days; the sun doesn’t even rise above …
Ruth Prieto Safe Heaven This work is the second chapter of a documentary project about Mexican immigrant women in New York. Some of them have indigenous backgrounds so that Spanish is not their first language. I decided to document their lives during their free time at their homes. Homes have deep emotional meaning. Through their …
Piotr Zbierski Love Has to Be Reinvented When Venasque told me about diaries of Cocteau, I came across this fragment, which deeply affected me: “And then I realized that the world of my dreams is equally full of memories as my real life, so it is the real being and also richer, deeper, full of …
© Bieke Depoorter We are now officially announcing the Emerging Photographer Fund grant for 2013. We are awarding $15,000 to three winners and spreading the love. One top winner will receive $10,000 and two runner-ups will each take home $2,500. Applications are now closed! These grants are designed to support continuation of a photographer’s personal project. This …
