Photo essays that bring people closer, frame by frame.
EmpathyPic is an independent journal of documentary photography. We publish slow, considered visual stories about the lives, places and small moments that don't usually make the front page.
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Each issue we publish a small set of essays — never more than we can read carefully ourselves. Here's what's open this week.
The long way home
A year following three families as they slowly returned to a coastal town after the floods.
Night-shift kitchens
Portraits of the cooks, dishwashers and bakers who keep a city fed between midnight and dawn.
Twelve rooms in winter
A quiet survey of the spaces older people return to when the days grow shorter.
The Sunday market
Seven months at a neighbourhood market that quietly became the local mental health clinic.
Letters from the train
A photographer's diary across four overnight trains and the strangers met on each.
Things we keep
A collaborative archive of small objects people refuse to throw away — and the reasons why.
A good photograph doesn't argue with you. It sits next to you long enough that you start asking your own questions. — From our editor's note, issue 01