One of the blogs I regularly follow is Pete Brook’s Raw File (as well as his Prison Photography), and another is DVA Photo, on which “Matt Lutton and M. Scott Brauer share their work and others’“so it’s nice to be able to post something that involves both of these, with Raw File showing Luttons portfolio Only Unity , a long-term documentary project about Serbia and the Serbs “in the aftermath of Yugoslavia.”
This is a superb project, full of intense and thoughtful images, and a worthy winner of the Burn Magazine Emerging Photography Fund for 2012. At $10,000 it isn’t the biggest prize in photography, but work like Lutton’s certainly makes it one of the most important in photography. Brook interviews Lutton on the blog and that too is worth reading.
Also in the text are some links to some fine work by others, and at the bottom links to the work of the runners up and other finalists. All are worth a look, though my favourite among them is a photographer I’ve written about before, Anastasia Taylor-Lind.