Cover, Letter from the Editors

LETTER FROM THE EDITORs

This is the seventh issue of Emerging Photographer we’ve published since its rebirth as a submission-based magazine in 2014, and the photographers in this issue will join the group of more than 70 talented individuals we’ve since featured.

We hope you’ll get comfortable while flipping through the magazine and let the work take you on a journey. In these pages, you’ll head out to the American West with Cody Cobb, follow a forensic anthropologist in El Salvador with Federico Vespignani, step into the homes of parrot caretakers in the UK with Miisha Nash, observe an intimate relationship in Nepal with Noela Roibás, go into the underground homes of Australia’s Coober Pedy with Matthias Van Dromme, walk with Christian Werner through the day-to-day lives of those living in war zones in Syria, and travel with Ryan Walker to a remote “off-grid” island off the coast of Canada. We also feature conceptual fine-art work from Laurence Kubski and Marilisa Cosello, as well as a portrait series from Alex Black.

We also catch up with previously featured photographers Ali Lapetina (“Ali Lapetina, Revisited”) and Sarah Blesener (“Portfolio of One”), two incredibly talented documentarians.

If you’d like to catch up on previous issues, you can visit pdnonline.com/emerging-photographer to read them online (for free) or order copies. If you’d like to submit to Emerging, our next submission period will open in November at emergingphotographer.com.

–Jacqui Palumbo & Taryn Swadba

THANK YOU:

Photographers in this issue will receive a Canon EOS M5 camera and lens kit, a Canon PIXMA PRO-10 printer, and a $100 B&H Photo gift card.

Pictured: Salvadoran criminologist Israel Ticas shows pictures he has received from family members of missing loved ones. Photographer Federico Vespignani shadowed Ticas for two months for his series "La Distancia"

Photo © Federico Vespignani