photographic essays
From new book coming, HOW TO TAKE BETTER PICTURES : USEFUL THOUGHTS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS EVERYWHERE Every time i get ready to quit Burn, something happens which keeps me in the game for another 5 minutes…I am sure you can imagine I often have to ask myself “is all this really worth it?”…a pretty …
James Rowan Trespassers Will Be Shot This body of work is a photographic survey of the American landscape. It weds traditional documentary photography and my own inclination toward cinematic, or dreamlike, imagery. The project was inspired by years of traveling throughout the country, particularly in the southern United States. These photographs were shot spontaneously. They …
yes, Bob Dylan had it right..answers for life tend not to be empirical but rather instinctive gut level decisions based on the moment and circumstance…we TRY to have rules to follow, methods, reason, and sage advice…any of that really work for you? most likely instinctive decisions seem to play the largest role for most …
Lucia Herrero Tribes ‘Tribes’ is a social analysis, a raw portrait of occidental society. Groups of families and friends set themselves up by the sea equipped to spend a day in the sun. All this, harmoniously juxtaposed, seems like a poem of customs that reveal with humor, color and tenderness, the profundity of a whole …
Manjari Sharma Darshan Historically considered a mechanical device to keep record, photography didn’t even start to find a place in galleries until the 20th century. It’s no surprise then that paintings and sculptures of Hindu deities were the dominant way to experience Indian mythology. As an Indian traditionally raised in Mumbai, despite my extensive …
Victor Cobo Behind the Smoke Colored Curtain ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT The images that I collect are often as much about myself as they are about the subjects being photographed. A broad exploration of real and imagined journeys, which often entail not only a physical displacement but also a psychological and emotional passage. The act …
Chloe Borkett East of Nowhere The frozen conflict zone and ex-Soviet enclave of Trans-Dniester, is a narrow slither of land located along the Eastern Moldovan border – a disputed sovereignty, which for 20 years has been de facto governed but also unrecognized by the UN. This came about in the Soviet Union’s dying days as …
Emilie Germiquet Visions of Diepsloot ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT More than 150 000 people live there; 150 000 people under the shadow of sickness, cold, violence, hunger, unemployment, survival. Diepsloot, 30km North of Johannesburg, is a mass of shacks, dirt and people. Consisting of both formal and informal housing, it started in the mid 1990’s …
I have a very playful side. Some get this side confused with my so called “serious side”. Often the two blend. Surely my intent. So, right smack in the middle of Burn 02 production and also when I am focusing on two major projects, RIO and FAMILY DRIVE, I come up …
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[slidepress gallery=’paulamundsen_memoirofaboy’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Paul S. Amundsen A Memoir of a Boy – In Search of a Normal Life play this essay “I was born a boy, but I want to die as a woman”, she says, sitting in a taxi, nervous about …
