I have never been one to follow any “routine” for long. I always want to get as close to the creative edge as I can. The status quo tends to get boring quickly. So when asked recently to participate in the upcoming Magnum Nudes project, my curiosity was immediately piqued since I had never …
Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT John Gladdy Speakers Corner Hyde Park Corner, London, England. Every Sunday since at least 1872. Between 2009 and 2012 I became a part of the ongoing street theatre that is Speakers Corner. Graduating, slowly but surely, from detached photographic voyeur …
Joao Pina Shadow of the Condor ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT “Operation Condor” was a 1970s secret military plan sponsored by the United States during the Dirty War years, which aimed to eliminate the political opponents to the right wing military regimes. It took place in six countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It …
ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT I met Leila a few months ago and the first thing I learned about her is that she was 23 years old and she was working as a prostitute. She has two children to support. I went into her daily life and I found a strong woman, careful with her context, …
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A Conversation with Jim Estrin, New York Times Lens Blog David Alan Harvey: You will be the third photographer in a row that I have interviewed, who I know as photographers and who have evolved and are now editors/decision makers. Anyway, I knew your credit line so I think of you as a photographer, …
Anastasia Taylor Lind The National Womb: Baby Boom In Nagorno Karabakh [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT In 2008 Nagorno Karabakh’s de facto government introduced the ‘birth encouragement program’ which distributes cash payments to newlyweds for each baby born, with the aim of repopulating the region after the devastating 1991-1994 war. The …
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Ian Willms Fort Chipewyan [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] If anyone would listen, the First Nations peoples in Fort Chipewyan, Canada, would tell them about an ongoing ‘slow motion cultural genocide’. The isolated indigenous reserves of Northern Alberta are watching their land become unlivable as their communities are slowly poisoned by the world’s largest and …
Bieke Depoorter I’m About to Call It A Day [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT ‘I am about to call it a day’ is a sequel on ‘Ou Menya’, a project where I entered the intimacy of families in Russia, while spending one night with them. This time, I have travelled through …
Gustavo Jononovich Richland [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT RICHLAND is my first long-term book project about the over-exploitation of the natural resources in Latin America and the resulting long-term negative effects, both human and environmental. The push for accelerated world economic growth has led to increasing demand for natural resources. Rather …
Ayman Oghanna Yesterday’s War Today’s Iraq [ EPF 2012 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT My father left Iraq in the 1970s. He would not have recognised it, by the time I had gotten there. It was 2009 and Iraq had nearly car-bombed, kidnapped and executed itself into oblivion. ‘Cultures that may seem as durable …
