[slidepress gallery=’thomasfreteur_abusakha’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Thomas Freteur Abu Sakha… play this essay Mohammed Abu Sakha used to be a normal, cheerful kid, despite the violence he witnessed in the West Bank in 2004. In 2008, he joined the first Palestinian circus school, an organization that trains Palestinian children …
[slidepress gallery=’jeromebrunet-cops’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jérôme Brunet Cops: Riding Shotgun with Texas Sheriffs play this essay When asked why I’m interested in law enforcement, I’m compelled to reply, “We all should be.” The fact that we know so incredibly little about our ‘boys in blue’ all though …
[slidepress gallery=’besodarchia_stigma’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Beso Darchia Stigma play this essay The dire economic situation in Georgia has left the population of the country without any protection that would be provided by Government. Socially unprotected groups of society were among the ones most affected, their survival left …
[slidepress gallery=’jenniferrichter-californiaoverpasses’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jennifer Richter California Overpasses Remembering Views From The Road These images encompass my love for traveling by car or motorcycles and they take me back to my childhood road trips taken with my family. I can still hear the words “GOD …
[slidepress gallery=’jonathonbowman_monkeybusiness’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Jonathon Bowman Monkey Business play this essay I began taking photos at the monkey houses at the zoo, fascinated by the inner lives of our genetic relatives. I soon realized that what I found compelling in the photos I had been taking …
many of you have seen this book before, but i am sure many of you have not….my first work in print….i publish it again here now only because my friend Masaaki Okada, who was the designer/editor, died on December 21….Masaaki was a tremendous influence on me as a person and as a photographer….my first collaborator… …
EDITOR’S NOTE: this is a guest post by Lassal and Haik, two BURN participants who have organized a birthday surprise from all involved with BURN Magazine… After a few weeks of conspiracy, Lassal’s and Civi’s unrelated cryptic comments it is time to unveil. Operation “BURN plot” was made by BURNIANS for BURNIANS and is to …
dreams, fantasies, and idealizations….all ethereal in nature….and hardly anything one can grasp or hold onto…yet, this is what i live for and form the basic building blocks for anything i have ever done….the starting point….and what always keep me going…my crazy ideas are usually just that…gone with the wind…however, sometimes and only sometimes , does …
[kml_flashembed fversion=”9.0.0″ movie=”https://www.burnmagazine.org/ss_essays/charliemahoney-atroubledparadise/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml” targetclass=”flashmovie” bgcolor=”#262626″ publishmethod=”dynamic” width=”800″ height=”551″ allowFullScreen=”True” allowScriptAccess=”Always”] [/kml_flashembed] Charlie Mahoney A Troubled Paradise Climate change is a difficult subject to treat visually, because much of the expected damage is still yet to come. We just haven’t seen many direct victims of climate change…at least not yet. As a result, I …
Five’ explores the power of ambiguity, minimalism and ‘the frame’ in photography. It develops concepts of implied narrative to communicate, amongst other things, darkness and danger. Whilst the specific places that were visited are, conceptually speaking, irrelevant, there is an inherent sympathy for that which is stagnant, abandoned or neutered by various external forces. …
