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rafal pruszynski – little pieces

[slidepress gallery=’rafalpruszynski-littlepiecesofus’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Rafal Pruszynski Little Pieces Of Us play this essay   When I was still not even a teenager, I lost my mother to breast cancer. I still remember the night she died vividly, its an image etched in my mind that will stay …

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chris bickford – storm

[slidepress gallery=’chrisbickford-afterthestorm’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Chris Bickford After The Storm play this essay   …A life of Surf on the Outer Banks   The bad weather comes out of nowhere.   Within hours, sometimes minutes, a perfect day at the beach–kids playing in the surf, girls in bikinis …

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andrew sullivan – harlem jazz

[slidepress gallery=’andrewsullivan-harlemjazzmm’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Andrew Sullivan Harlem Jazz play this essay   Tap dancer Omar Edwards thrust the metal toe of his shoe forward and scraped an arc on the Minton’s Playhouse stage. An audience of three heard the sound of saws cutting through logs. African drums …

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david plummer – feast of losses

  Feast of Losses by David Plummer Feast of Losses, is an ongoing project that documents the life of David Pembroke, who in 2003 was diagnosed with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare brain disease that causes nerve endings at the base of the brain to gradually die. These neurons mainly control movement and balance, vision …

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akaky – no pictures please

  No Pictures Please by Akaky When I was a young man, a time I like to think of as only yesterday and the calendar likes to tell me wasn’t, I had no suicidal tendencies.  Yes, I bumbled my way through the usual raft of silly foibles allotted to the young and hormonally overwhelmed male. …

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laura el-tantawy – fervent

[slidepress gallery=’lauraeltantawy-ferventspirits’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Laura El-Tantawy Fervent Spirits play this essay   Fervent Spirits is about faith. Believing in the invisible. A power only heard of, but never quiet seen. I started this project in the holy Land in Jerusalem, inspired by a 60-year-old conflict that has …

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chiara tocci – enlightened

  Enlightened by Chiara Tocci In the Sunna, the other major holy Muslim book together with the Quran, the pictures of living beings are condemned. “Whoever makes a picture will be punished by Allah. He (the picture maker) will be ordered to breathe life into the picture, but he will not be able to do …

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stephen burrows – auschwitz

  Auschwitz by Stephen Burrows Auschwitz in the snow as the debate whether the site should be kept in its time locked state or left to nature is being considered.   Website: Stephen Burrows