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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Alvin Foo | The Occupied Space
A phenomenon unique in this part of the world, I am often intrigued by how the squatters were portrayed on the mainstream media. Coming from a place where squatting is an almost non existent term, this body of work offers…
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Ole Elfenkämper | Rape of growth
Dilapidated industrial plants, a lack of sewage plants and high air pollution burden the environment. Cities like Ballsh, Patos or Elbasan in central Albania reveal the extent of the lack of environmental awareness and the indifference of big company's.
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Thomas Vanden Driessche | Kalaheera – Black Diamond
Ever since I was a child, I have heard that eskimos have dozens of different words to describe subtle nuances of white. When I arrived in Jharia, I couldn’t help wondering the same thing about the inhabitants of the largest…
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Luigi Fiano | Maramures
[W]hen I first started to work as freelance photographer in 2007, I went to Romania because I wanted to show the social changing of this country after its entrance in the EU. Arrived in Bucarest, I suddenly realized that this…
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Fabian WeiĂź | Lala Life Beijing
[B]eing lesbian or bisexual still signifies harsh living conditions in modern China. Since 1997 it is not longer illegal to be homosexual and in 2001 homosexuality has even been removed from the Ministry of Health’s list of mental illnesses. But…
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Colorless Days
  Russia Water cooler for employees I work in a sales department at a plant that produces soft drinks. My working day begins at 9 a.m. At 9 a.m. I must put my admission card to a special sensor at…
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Kakha Kakhiani | On the way to God
[T]his is my first project and it’s entitled On the way to God: it was a short story about specific traditions of the Georgian mountain’s inhabitants. I realized these images during my first travel around Georgia, when I was 18-19…
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Anna Hurtig | Nightvisions
Night is in the astronomical sense, the period when the sun is below the horizon, depending on where you are. The night is both frightening and fascinating. Frightening because potential hazards from the environment is more difficult to avoid since…
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Thierry Clech | North India
I try to reveal that life's mystery and dream-like nature of this country which seems to come from the middle age…
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Giada Archidi | Eastern market
Eastern market. Every week-end in Milan at the parking lot close to the Cascina Gobba metro station, there’s a changing city, a city that breathes new air and new tastes from Eastern Europe. The area outside the parking lot of…
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Alessio Guarino | AzumaCenterFukushima
AzumaCenterFukushima, 2011. We arrived to Fukushima at 9.47. A colleague from Ryo Abe was waiting for us and came with us to the Azuma Evacuation Center, where friend and architecture's students arranged a workshop in order to gladden the kids…
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Mahir Vranac | East Bosnia
[E]ast Bosnia, 2009. This story is about raising awareness among people about the second generation of the Bosnian Muslim population in eastern Bosnia, which has experienced war crimes during the war in Bosnia (1992-1995). Eastern Bosnia is now the space of…
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CĂ©cile Mella | Fictional Cape Town
Fictional Cape Town is a series of photographs taken in and around tv commercial production’s sets. It focuses on the foreign advertising production industry in and around Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town has a surprisingly large film industry. It’s not like…
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Gianpaolo La Paglia | An Unexpected End
If the real estate and debt disaster in Ireland have filled the front pages of the most important news papers around the world, another unexpected consequence of the economic recession is the abandonment of horses.
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Miriam O’ Connor | Attention Seekers
[P]roduced over a period of two years, Attention Seekers is a personal portrayal and playful response to everyday scenes, arbitrary spaces and people encountered by the photographer. While the ordinary or the everyday are habitually tied up with concepts of familiarity…
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Filippo Zambon | The state of things
One night the telephone rings. My friend Antonio, the only pediatrician of the hospital answers. I can see from his expression that something has happened. We run to the pediatric department. A kid in very bad condition has arrived. In…
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Elisa Figoli | L’Aquila: fragments from the aftermath
At 3:32 am of the 6th of April 2009 a violent earthquake struck L’Aquila (Italy) killing 309 people and leaving 65,000 homeless but also unveiling the frailty of the Italian society and of its commonly accepted models of urban security…
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Alexander Sayenko | Trolleybus Depot
These people are simple and unusual both, if descended from paintings. And yet, it’s pictures, pictures of the city which nobody sees, feels, doesn’t think about it. Trolleybus depot. This is mysterious and romantic place – dark, with incredible shades…
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Paris Visone | Gender Roles and Appearance
In this series of photographs, my intention is two-fold. First, is to explore the gender dynamics and sexuality of my subjects. Secondly, I am trying to capture how these dynamics are transformed into “appearances” which my subjects feel they must…
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Stefano Buonamici | Indignados
At 7.30 in the morning, the Catalan police began the operation to remove hundreds of demonstrators that were camping day and night in Plaza Catalonia, in the center of Barcelona, the last two weeks. The demonstrators of the called 15-M…