Photo Essays
Photo essay: a form of visual storytelling, a way to present a narrative through a series of images.
We accept any theme, any subject. Although our preference is for stories that need to be told.
Submit your Photo essay.
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“Amricord”, the incipit of one of the many stories that my grandmother told me
Bore, Parma, summer, 2023 “Amricord”, in the Parma dialect “I remember”, represented for me the incipit of one of the many stories that my grandmother told me.It was a bit like “once upon a time” that opened up before my…
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Mary’s Children
Contemplating the deeper aspects of life is a universal endeavor. I recall pondering the vastness of existence even in my childhood, sensing the triviality of my being in the face of its infinitude. As we mature, life’s complexities begin to…
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Mask Mode
In Ukraine, the first case of COVID-19 infection was recorded in the spring of 2020! I decided to film a project on how people’s behavior changes during a pandemic and chose the most crowded public place in the city of…
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Somewhere else
I started this project to tell a story of the city I lived in for 7 years, the city I loved, I miss, I can never come back to. My memories do not fade with time, but get more and…
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Varanasi is a sacred city, the capital of death
To be cremated in a sacred city, to have a chance to break free from the endless cycle of rebirths, to immerse oneself in the waters of a sacred river – these are the goals pursued by Hindus as they…
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About light and shadow: a set of images
Light and shadow chase each other, contradict but complement each other: one could not exist without the relationship with the other.Sometimes light, artificial or natural, makes the details of an image clear, but shadow lurks to add depth and ambiguity;…
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The banner which the anti vaccine mandate went under Freedom Convoy
In March 2023 the first of The Public Order Emergency Commission’s final report assessing the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act concluded that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met the threshold for enacting unprecedented powers to end the “Freedom Convoy”…
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Are sexy phones dialling down?
“Nobody’s looking at each other. Everybody’s glued to their phones.” The preponderance of mobile phones made street photography unsexy according to Joel Meyerowitz, but then, hasn’t one of the tasks of street photography been to record the world as it…
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The exuberant Carnival of Basel 2024
The Carnival of Basel is a vibrant cultural festival Switzerland, known as Basler Fasnacht. It features parades, music, costumes, and traditional masked characters. It occurs annually, starting on the Monday after Ash Wednesday. It lasts for exactly 72 hours, ending…
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Second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
On February 24, 2024, marks the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian community in the city of Nuremberg gathered in the city center to remind the world that the war continues. Ukraine is resisting Russian aggression…
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“Life Out of Balance”, a perfect description of our current state of affairs
The Hopi word for “life out of balance” is Koyaanisqatsi. This was a film directed by Godfrey Reggio and released in late 2004 (created between 1975 and 1982). I was immediately enthralled by the imagery and music (by Phillip Glass).I…
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The city at a minimum, looking through a magnifying glass
Having one’s own personal vision of the city, especially of a city like Rome, is not an easy thing.One has to contend with centuries of images, not only photographic, with myriads of cheap postcards or sublime representations, and with one’s…
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Leaves (from image 6723, details)
The series that I present is called “Leaves (from image 6723)”, and is part of the “Leaves” project. The images were taken from a single photograph, a picture of a tree I took on a day of strong wind, which…
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Shifting Waves – Tale of Climate migrants in Chittagong
Joy Das is a son of a traditional local fisherman living in the coast of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He helps his father in fishing but his main passion is playing football, but he was afraid that he will not be able…
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“The Postcards from Italy” series
Wave in Venice, Punta della Dogana,Venice, Italy. 2024 From 1786 to 1788, Goethe embarked on his grand tour of Italy in search of personal transformation. My first trip to Italy began more prosaically when one day I walked into an…
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Figures in Suspension: Strolling Leisurely through the City
It often happens to me to wander about the city in an absent-minded manner, without a precise destination, without a plan defined beforehand when I have my camera in my hand, with my thoughts wandering here and there, jumping from…
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Beast Within – Khlong Toei Market in Bangkok
Located along Rama IV Road, not far from the expatriate enclave of Sukhumvit but very different in terms of the glitz and glamour of the neighbouring district, the Khlong Toei Market is considered the largest wholesale market for fresh food…
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Commuter Motions – an experiential view of a commute
Traveling from the industrial Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania, through sparsely populated western New Jersey, and into the cacophony of New York City, Commuter Motions is a photography series that develops from the experiential capture of an eighty-mile commute. By opposing…
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The great human shape of Istanbul
This is a report from a short visit of mine to Istanbul in January, 2023. These ten images could look as a typical collection of touristic images. In fact, as always, my eyes are more attracted by people than by…
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Postcards from some small villages
Without any regrets or nostalgia, in the changes some things are lost and others are gained, if anything trying to good-naturedly mock the endless postcards about such pretty old villages!