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[kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/mikepinches-pasturesnew/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” bgcolor=”#262626″ publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”658″] [/kml_flashembed]   Mike Pinches Pastures New   I was born in the English New Town of Milton Keynes in the 1980s when much of it was still fields. It had been conceived, in the 1960s, as a radical solution to the post-war housing crisis and as an …

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[slidepress gallery=’rochkind_anthropographia’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT David Rochkind Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit: The Costs and Consequences of Mexico’s Drug War play this essay   In the three and a half years since Mexican President Felipe Calderon escalated the battle against the country’s drug cartels, more …

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[slidepress gallery=’emilyschiffer_cheyenneriver_2′] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Emily Schiffer Cheyenne River play this essay   In 2005, I founded a photography program for youths on Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. In this ongoing program, my students and I photograph together, share our images while they’re still in the viewfinder, …

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[slidepress gallery=’markgong_cubanlife’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Mark Gong Cuban Life play this essay   I wanted to do one last great backpacking trip before settling down in the Big Apple, so in Spring 2008, I visited Cuba.  Like most countries I travel to, I try not to have any …

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[slidepress gallery=’jamiemaxtonegraham_wheneveningscomes’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT   Jamie Maxtone Graham When Evening Comes: Night Market Portraits PLAY THIS ESSAY   The photographs in this body of work came to be out of a couple of different but complimentary impulses. The first was a simple curiosity of …

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[slidepress gallery=’jamesdodd_olympicdreams’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls James Dodd Olympic Dreams play this essay   Sport funding in the UK has increased dramatically as a result of winning the 2012 Olympic bid. Knowing the eyes of the world will soon be upon the nation, much of this funding has been …

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[slidepress gallery=’kevinsweeney_familyself’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Kevin Francis Sweeney Family/Self play this essay   Family/Self is a twenty-four hour cross-section of my immediate family. My family is a subject I know intimately but seldom consider with more than a snapshot. We are three individuals living together with common and …

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[slidepress gallery=’dmitrymarkov_awkwardage’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls   Dmitry Markov Awkward Age PLAY THIS ESSAY   I grew up in a small Russian town in a family of factory workers. The part of the town where I lived was rough: the only available place of work (the factory) had been …

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[slidepress gallery=’manjarisharma_theshowerseries’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls   Manjari Sharma The Shower Series play this essay   For the last few months I have been inviting people to visit my apartment and allow me to photograph them in a very intimate space; my bathroom. I have also been inviting them …

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