[slidepress gallery=”epf_2010_finalists”] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls SOME ESSAYS CONTAIN EXPLICIT CONTENT Emerging Photographer Grant 2010 Finalists play this essay This is a short preview of the essays of our 13 EPF finalists……their complete essays will be published on Burn in the coming weeks……the jury: Bruce Gilden, Michael Nichols, …
[slidepress gallery=’petepin_theave’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Pete Pin The Ave play this essay “My whole take on the Telegraph life is, basically, my life is very simple: I sit around all day and I spare change for hours for alcohol which I use to compensate for the fact …
[slidepress gallery=’zisiskardianos_feastday’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Zisis Kardianos Feast day play this essay “Memory demands an image” Bertrand Russell Rituals and traditions represent a very strong manifestation of the Greek way of life. It can be sensuous, surreal, mysterious and always loaded with the indelible sparkles of memory. …
i simply love the New Yorker cartoons…i suppose we all do…and many of you know of their cartoon caption writing contest…in that spirit i thought we should have a Burn caption writing contest…for the picture above ….photographed by my friend Medford Taylor probably 25 years ago, but which i am seeing for the first time …
[slidepress gallery=’shumway_blackgirl’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Brian Shumway Black Girl play this essay “Modeling is an addiction.” Johanie, 24, aspiring model Black Girl is a portrait series on young black women in the New York City area who aspire to be models. Even as …
[kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/mikepinches-pasturesnew/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” bgcolor=”#262626″ publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”658″] [/kml_flashembed] Mike Pinches Pastures New I was born in the English New Town of Milton Keynes in the 1980s when much of it was still fields. It had been conceived, in the 1960s, as a radical solution to the post-war housing crisis and as an …
[slidepress gallery=’rochkind_anthropographia’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT David Rochkind Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit: The Costs and Consequences of Mexico’s Drug War play this essay In the three and a half years since Mexican President Felipe Calderon escalated the battle against the country’s drug cartels, more …
[slidepress gallery=’emilyschiffer_cheyenneriver_2′] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Emily Schiffer Cheyenne River play this essay In 2005, I founded a photography program for youths on Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. In this ongoing program, my students and I photograph together, share our images while they’re still in the viewfinder, …
[slidepress gallery=’markgong_cubanlife’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Mark Gong Cuban Life play this essay I wanted to do one last great backpacking trip before settling down in the Big Apple, so in Spring 2008, I visited Cuba. Like most countries I travel to, I try not to have any …
is there anything better than a childhood dream? 9 year old Gracie Johnson dreams of becoming a photographer….she lives now in the Virginia town where i also dreamed of being a photographer at about the same age…Gracie and her family are part of my American family series Off For A Family Drive…Gracies’ father, U.S.Navy Capt. …
