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[slidepress gallery=’ejbehdarvand_bingwa’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Pej Behdarvand Bingwa play this essay Bingwa is a Swahili word that translates not only as “expert” or “competent,” but also as “bodybuilder.” This project began when I stumbled across a website featuring African bodybuilding and was struck by the appeal that bodybuilding …
[slidepress gallery=’patrickhogan_solitaryhalfmad’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Patrick Hogan Solitary, Half Mad play this essay A photographic short story. When I began this essay, I decided to move from the urban area where I had been living to a small cottage in rural Ireland. I was interested in people who …
[slidepress gallery=’matteoarmellini_simon’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Matteo Armellini Simon / Story of a Softgunner play this essay In these years of virtual reality, where children have stopped playing war in the courtyard and do it in front of the computer instead, there are those who don’t want to miss …
[slidepress gallery=’samharris_postcardsfromhome’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Sam Harris Postcards from Home (2008 – 2011) play this essay Postcards from Home revolves around my domestic life and especially focuses on my two daughters Uma & Yali growing up. After several nomadic years, we migrated to Australia in 2008. It was …
[slidepress gallery=’michaelkircher_potomacgorge’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Michael Kircher Potomac Gorge play this essay “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” — Thoreau For me there is no better place to stretch myself as a photographer than in the natural world. Just minutes outside of Washington, DC is the dramatic …
Margaret Bryant The Dangers of Drunk Dialing This was taken as an expression of frustration with the telephone company, who had taken five days and three service calls to fix a problem with the line. But it is more about the trouble one can get into when intoxicated, how one can become tied up …
[slidepress gallery=’leameilandt_themaguires’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Lea Meilandt The Maguires play this essay The number of poor families in the United States is growing rapidly these years. Unemployment and expensive housing makes it almost impossible for families all over the country to make ends meet and create a stable …
[slidepress gallery=’sarakatz_themanbehindthecurtain’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Sara Katz The Man Behind the Curtain play this essay When I was growing up, and my dad got into any sort of argument with my mom over something banal (the most common cause being a joke deemed too off-color, annoying, childish, …
[slidepress gallery=’brandangomez_thingsthatneverhappened’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Brandan Gomez Things That Never Happened play this essay These are the images of what never happened, but should have. They express what really moves the world: desires, deep desires that start forming in your early years, and crystallize inside your chest when …
[slidepress gallery=’michaelchristopherbrown_lybia’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Michael Christopher Brown Libya play this essay LIBYA Since arriving ten days ago, I have tried to understand the situation here in Libya. People swap facts, predictions and rumors, the news feeds me information, but the complexity of the …
