[slidepress gallery=’aaronvincentelkaim_exodusjewishmorocco’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Aaron Vincent Elkaim Exodus: Jewish Morocco play this essay Jews first arrived to the land now known as Morocco over 2000 years ago. Protected under the Islamic Principle of Tolerance since the 7th century, they flourished, holding high positions in trade and …
[slidepress gallery=’lassal_disencounters’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Lassal Disencounters play this essay After two years of feeling absolutely not myself, I was diagnosed with Hypothyroidism, a hormone deficiency. Modern medicine can supply synthetic hormones but it took me more than half a year to build up to the correct …
[slidepress gallery=’dannyghitis_landofos’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Danny Ghitis Land of Os play this essay Every year more than a million tourists visit the concentration camps of Auschwitz – Birkenau to pay respect to the same number of innocent men, women and children who were murdered there. Because they …
[slidepress gallery=’brentclark_seasonsgreetings’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Brent Clark Season’s Greetings play this essay Season’s Greetings is an ongoing project documenting the physical representations of Christmas in my native North Carolina. I am drawn to the luminous and imaginative beauty of Christmas, and also interested in the way that …
[slidepress gallery=’lauraeltantawy-illdieforyou’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Laura El-Tantawy I’ll Die for You play this essay “I’ll Die For You” is a project that will combine still photographs and video. The work explores the epidemic of farmer suicides in rural India where over the past decade more than 200,000 …
[slidepress gallery=’thodoristzalavras_nicosiaindarkandwhite’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Thodoris Tzalavras Nicosia in Dark and White play this essay On Your Fiftieth Anniversary Short story by Ioanna Mavrou Everything is quiet. The years pass like water in a stream. You sit and wait patiently and impatiently. You can’t decide if you’re happy …
i am always telling my students and those i mentor that the most obvious and best projects are just at your front door….so it is a concept i endorse and have indeed lived…yet, i need to re-learn it all the time and the subtleties therein…so sure, it was clear and obvious that i would two …
[slidepress gallery=’martinusborne_mutethesilenceofdogsincars’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Martin Usborne MUTE: the Silence of Dogs in Cars play this essay I was once left in a car at a young age. I don’t know when or where or for how long, possibly at the age of four, perhaps outside …
nobody goes to Iowa for vacation….if you go to Iowa it is for a very specific reason…you are either driving to Colorado from Illinois , or to enter a Presidential primary, or to grow corn and the animals that eat it….i can tell you for sure that Cecil and Wilma above were not responsible for …
[slidepress gallery=’dannywilcoxfrazier_detroit’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Danny Wilcox Frazier A Detroit Requiem play this essay Detroit…the word alone incites many emotions within America’s conscience. Detroit was the epicenter for economic equality in the U.S., the home front for the ideal of well paying jobs …
