Thread Magazine #7

issue seven

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Welcome to Thread Magazine #7, our photography issue.

Through the apertures of Burlington’s finest image makers.

Enjoy.

Ben Sarle, Editor & Publisher and The Thread Magazine Syndicate

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on the cover: k. brisee photo // ben sarle

JEANLU CDUSHIME BR ENTHARREWYN featuring work by

MICHAELSIPE KARE NGUTH SHANNONPART RIC thread magazine | photo annual | threadvt.com

KENNAH

photography // michael sipe

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TWEED RIDE photography // brent harrewyn

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HANDS OF HOPE

photography // jean luc dushime

The “Hands of Hope Project” started out as a reflection process on my journey in America. I started thinking about my first job, the challenges I faced moving to a new country, learning a new way of life, a new language and culture. As frightening, confusing and draining this journey can be, it has also been as rewarding as climbing the Kilimanjaro or crossing the Amazon. “It takes strength to build a life, it takes even more faith and hope to build it again”

I deliberately focused on the hands because I believe that our hands are our public identity. You can learn lot about a person by studying their hands. The hands portrayed in these photographs farmed, built homes that got destroyed by wars or natural disasters, buried loved ones, waved good bye to those left behind, and above all protected, fed, provided, sheltered and held little ones and now once more they are called upon to rebuild again from scratch in a new country.

My hope is that you may relate to these lives and I hope that we can be all inspired to live fully, meaningfully and gracefully in this world that is getting smaller and more unpredictable.

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LANDSCAPE.

morristown

photography // oliver parini

lincoln

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wolcott

bakersfield

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IT WAS

CLEARLY YOUR FINEST MOMENT. A SERIES BY RAYCHEL SEVERANCE.

You knew it, too. What you should’ve noticed was me taking my camera out. I’m proud of you, friends... and a little sorry, too.

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TWO BELTS, NO PANTS.

BET YOU HAD THIS COMIN’.

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WHAT BROTHERHOOD LOOKS LIKE.

20 SMOKES AND NO FUCKS TO GIVE.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WRETCHED HOME.

BEING BEAUTIFUL TAKES HELP FROM MY FRIENDS.

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WOMEN OF DEMOCRACY photography // ben sarle

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MADELEINE KUNIN Vermont’s first female and first Jewish governor, in office from 1985-1991. Her expansive political career included serving as the Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, Clinton’s deputy secretary of education, and a Vermont State Representative. Kunin also published her third book this year titled “The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family”.

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KESHA RAM A State Representative serving Burlington’s Hill Section, Old North End, and University. Additionally, she is a member of the Ways & Means Committee, a Civic Engagement Specialist, and Community Organizer. Elected in 2008, Kesha is the youngest legislator in Vermont.

JILL KROWINSKI After being appointed to the VT House of Representatives assigned to the Human Services Committee last February

by Governor Shumlin, Jill finished strong in the race for the House, winning another term serving downtown and the Old North End. Jill is also the Director of Vermont Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, a Fletcher Free Library Commissioner, an Advisory Board member of Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom, and serves on the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra Board.

BETH PEARCE After one of the most contentious races for Vermont State Treasurer, Beth defeated her Republican opponent who was supported by a well-funded conservative super PAC - proving the value of the issues over campaign money. A true fighter for Vermont’s financial future.

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fall food series

photography // jessica anderson 34

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photo & composition // matt day words // johanna hiller

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last thoughts before falling asleep

photography // shannon partrick

Investigating the haunting and healing mechanisms of memory...

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VESTIGES

photography // karen guth

I moved to the Detroit metro area from New York City in the late 1990s, and lived there for twelve years. I’d always felt a connection to Detroit, as my father was born there. I’d grown up hearing stories of my grandmother working as a pharmacist downtown, of my father navigating the city by bus as a young child, of the nickel seats at Tiger Stadium, of the friends and neighbors who had various jobs in the auto industry. When I saw what Detroit had become, a city of sports arenas and office buildings juxtaposed with urban decay beyond anything I could ever imagine, I was compelled to take my camera and photograph what I was feeling: anger, sadness, and utter disbelief. Composing the photos, I considered what had happened: economic downturn and resulting population decline; corruption and mismanagement of city resources; poverty and despair. I photographed the empty streets: once bustling industrial corridors, once neighborhoods. I photographed inside abandoned auto factories and schools and churches, listening to wind blowing through the buildings, trying to capture on film the enormity of what I was seeing through my viewfinder. I went to the address where my father had lived and found a vacant lot between one abandoned house and one occupied house. I’d photograph things that seemed frozen in time, only to return a day or a month later and find that everything had changed. I’d regularly say I was finished photographing Detroit – it was too dangerous and emotionally draining. But then, I’d find myself once again standing there on the street with my camera, compelled to continue recording it all. thread magazine | photo annual | threadvt.com

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INDUSTRIAL | FASHION photography // damir alisa

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