Elena Perlino A Sea Of Light ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Essay foreword by Machiel Botman “Let’s call it the yellow photograph for now: a street sign with half an arrow, a woman touching the sign and looking at where the arrow points. Behind it all a yellow sea of light, a colored landscape, cityscape that …
So I took this picture about half an hour ago. In Rio. Well, Renata is in Rio and I am at home alone in Carolina talking to a black cat. Renata is a character in my book about to go to press in Italy which was shot in Rio. My not so secret …
[slidepress gallery=’michaelnicknichols_interview’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls play this essay David Alan Harvey: Now the thing is that you were a photographer first. When I met you, you were a Magnum photographer. Now you are Editor at Large at National Geographic. Pretty obvious though, this doesn’t seem to …
If a war photographer is awarded a Peace Prize, furthermore in a city once devastated by a war, then he must be a very special person and a truly extraordinary photographer. And he must have something to oppose to war. For it is the nature of war to engage and take in everything, to occupy and appropriate, without exception. Which …
Wim Wenders – Eulogy for James Nachtwey at the occasion of the Dresden Prize Read More »
Sean Gallagher China’s Fragile Forest Natural forests cover about 10 percent of China, however few of these forests remain in a primary or pristine condition. China’s forests are threatened primarily by timber collection, mining, unregulated harvesting of flora for traditional Chinese medicine and excessive development related to increased tourism. Reforestation efforts by authorities have …
SKYPE is NOT sponsoring this story… Yet Burn could probably not exist without Skype…No joke…Many of my relationships are virtual , on Skype…Including a very special relationship with Kaya Berne (above), who attends university classes a few hundred miles from me and yet gets all my e-mail and workshop and some Burn stuff done …
We are now officially announcing the Emerging Photographer Fund award for 2012. We will now award $15,000. as three different grants. We are trying to spread the love a bit. Burn will give $10,000. to one photographer, and two smaller grants of $2500. each . Three awards instead of one. Each intended to get a …
A VIDEO BY ROGER BALLEN I FINK U FREEKY by DIE ANTWOORD Many of you may remember Roger Ballen here from his Boarding House essay, also published in Burn 01. Roger was also kind enough to interact with this audience. This is a very interesting example of a conceptual still photographer making a video. This …
Dana Stolzgen Black Garden Nagorno Karabakh / 2010 May. Inside the narrow valleys of the Caucasus Mountains there is a country not appearing in the maps: Nagorno-Karabakh, which name – a mixed of Russian, Turkish and Persian languages – means Mountainous Black Garden. This self-proclaimed republic is the result of a cruel conflict – 20 …
