Monika Bulaj Behind The Great Game. Central and Western Asia Project. ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT What lies behind the conflicts and power struggles vying for control of the oil resources of Western and Central Asia? The aim of this work – The Central and Western Asia Project – is to give voice to those who are …
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Reneta Gancheva Bango Vassil Bango Vassil is the day when Bulgarian gypsies are celebrating the beginning of their new year. It is on the 14th of January. For them it is the most important day of the year. The legend says this is the day when St.Vassil saves their nation from being swallowed up by …
Manfredi Pantanella Leaving Rubbish Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is one of the world’s largest cities, more than 25 million inhabitants which produces a lot of wastes. Until today an ad-lib urban plan could not manage the situation, leaving the city flooding in the trash. No chance. Luckily, Cairo has the Zabbaleen. The Zabbaleen are …
Marc Shoul Brakpan Brakpan is a small town that lies on the East Rand of Gauteng, sandwiched between Boksburg, Benoni and Springs. A once-prosperous mining community, today there are pawnshops, roadhouses, mechanics, mini casinos and other day-to-day shops lining the two main roads that slice through the town. Brakpan is like going back in time; …
Una Fotografa Caucasian Woman Una, Nessuna, Centomila No name. No memory today of yesterday’s name; of today’s name, tomorrow. If the name is the thing; if a name in us is the concept of every thing placed outside of us; and without a name you don’t have the concept, and the thing remains in us …
Rian Dundon Fringe Life: Negotiating Modernity in Chinas Provincial Grey Zones [ EPF 2011 HONORABLE MENTION ] This project re-examines China’s shifting cultural norms, economic transitions, and socio-political changes from within the context of its marginalized interior regions. Moving beyond the urban-centric/scenic/iconic structures, which dominate the current visual record of China, it considers the cultural …
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Nicholas Calhoun Existing Is All ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT We never live in the same moments. Although, life may be repetitive with our daily rituals and the things we experience, they are never truly the same. But it’s this illusion that we create, thinking life is vapid, that pushes us to do the ‘unexpected’. Losing …
Stacy Kranitz The Other My project engages with history, representation, biography, personal narrative, and otherness in the documentary tradition. Each year in Pennsylvania, 500 people come together to reenact the Battle of the Bulge. During the reenactment, I portray Leni Riefenstahl and behave with soldiers, as she would have. I am intrigued by the complex …
Elena Perlino A Sea Of Light ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Essay foreword by Machiel Botman “Let’s call it the yellow photograph for now: a street sign with half an arrow, a woman touching the sign and looking at where the arrow points. Behind it all a yellow sea of light, a colored landscape, cityscape that …
If a war photographer is awarded a Peace Prize, furthermore in a city once devastated by a war, then he must be a very special person and a truly extraordinary photographer. And he must have something to oppose to war. For it is the nature of war to engage and take in everything, to occupy and appropriate, without exception. Which …
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