[slidepress gallery=’ericespinosa-lordsofthering2′] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Eric Espinosa Lords Of The Ring play this essay Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST (number five of eleven) Bert Randolph Sugar, one of the greatest boxing writers, says that “to understand boxing, one must understand its roots. From its beginnings, the sport …
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[slidepress gallery=’michaelbrown-sakhalin2′] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Michael Christopher Brown Sakhalin play this essay Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST (number four of eleven) Introduction: Photographed predominantly in the broken, rusted, skeletons of communities around Sakhalin Island, Russia, these images explore the wintry atmosphere of a remote land and its …
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[slidepress gallery=’simonaghizzoni-aftermath’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Simona Ghizzoni Aftermath play this essay Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST (number three of eleven) ” These are the last things, she wrote. One by one they disappear and never come back.” Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things 2006-2009 Since …
[slidepress gallery=’jennackerman-trapped’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jenn Ackerman Trapped play this essay Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST (number two of eleven) The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into default mental health facilities. The system designed for security is now …
[slidepress gallery=’chaskielberg-hightide’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Alejandro Chaskielberg The High Tide play this essay Emerging Photographer Fund – FINALIST (number one of eleven) With my photographs I create fictional scenarios with real people and situations. I try to explore the limits of documentary photography, using technical processes to …
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[kml_flashembed fversion=”9.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/hillaryatiyeh-inhotwater/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”551″] [/kml_flashembed] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Hillary Atiyeh In Hot Water Water, the essential element within all living things… in perpetual motion. Heat, from the core of the Earth… springs to the surface. A journey of our body & our community in nature through an inherent interconnection with …
Desert Storm by Sean Gallagher A man pushes his bike into a suffocating duststorm on the outskirts of the town of Hongsibao, in Ningxia Province in north-central China. Sand and duststorms have been one of the major problems as a result of desertification in China. As the spring winds blow, dry and degraded topsoil …
[slidepress gallery=’brentfoster-hellhole’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Brent Foster Hell Hole: Living On Jharia’s Fiery Mines play this essay I consider it hell on earth, literally. The smell, the smoke, the heat, the conditions. No human should have to live here, work here, grow up here, exist here, yet …
[slidepress gallery=’davidplummer-maisondelachance’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls David Plummer Maison De La Chance play this essay In the village churchyard there grows an old yew, Every spring it blossoms anew: Old passports can’t do that, my dear, old passports can’t do that. The consul banged the table and said, …
[kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/rodrigocruz-thepromisedland/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” bgcolor=”#262626″ publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”551″] [/kml_flashembed] Rodrigo Cruz The Promised Land Every year, thousands of Central Americans from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras illegally enter Mexico via the southern border with the goal of reaching the United States in search of a better life. The journey is long and full of …
