In Namibia, a generations-long tradition of tapping the sap of palm trees runs counter to recent environmental protection efforts. Is this an essential cultural practice or merely destructive? These striking portraits investigate.
Discovering Asian Photography: Obscura Festival 2016
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Now in its fourth year, the latest edition of this beautifully situated festival in Penang, Malaysia shines its spotlight on Asian photography, giving a much-needed platform of visibility to original and relatively unknown work.
A Work In Progress: Inaugural Laureate from the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards
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A young, innovative practitioner returns to her roots in the Czech Republic to explore the dark, mysterious beauty that lies within the feelings of childhood.
Young Nomads: Child Horsemen of the Mongolian Plains
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The horse is deeply entrenched in Mongolian culture—shortly after children learn to walk, they learn to ride. This interview delves into the unique (though endangered) traditions of this ancient, nomadic people.
A former fashion photographer became obsessed with the people and places of Skid Row in Los Angeles—this is her story and the photos she made over the course of several years.
Collectives Spotlight #7: The Analogue Street Collective
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A diverse and eclectic group of photographers united by their desire to capture the soul of city streets—using (mostly) the irreplaceable medium of traditional film photography.
A near-psychedelic layering of brightly colored drips, drawings and inky fingerprints offer haiku-like meditations about the materiality of the street itself.
Plunged into the wild, color-filled streets of New York, an Italian photographer followed two key threads—red and blue—to make some visual sense of the city around him.
(Street) photography can be a lonely craft—which is why collectives are an ever-important means of support, feedback and community. Metro focuses on documentary storytelling while acknowledging their debt to the greats of street photography.
Taking inspiration from the idea that every person on Earth is connected, at most, by six degrees of separation, this series creates raw, intimate portraits that begin with a simple conversation in the street...
Stray Light: Imaging the Nocturnal Urban Landscape
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We have all but lost the night for our progress—in the place of ancient stars, we instead find foreign constellations of vanished surfaces and ephemeral, ever-changing flecks of artificial light.
"Like a fisherman who goes about his daily work without knowing what he will catch, I take my camera and dive into the streets...it is an adventure and I am always looking forward to it."
The worldwide popularity of Instagram has transformed it into a fascinating platform for international discovery and cross-genre experimentation—a popular collective offers 20 of their favorite picks.
In various parts of the world, photographing in public remains a touchy issue—using dramatic angles, framing and light, these images circumvent the debate and offer a fresh take on candid street portraiture.
The streets are free, open, magical and filled with the possibilities of endless beauty—this international collective of photographers is on a mission to capture such moments with passion and grace.
Albania, despite its proximity to Europe, remains an unknown spot on the map for many—these photographs take us on an emotional, subjective journey deep inside this haunted, sensual land.
"The Walks" is a series but also a pastime that portrait photographer Laura Pannack returns to again and again as an on-going project. The format is simple; she gets a train to somewhere she hasn’t been before armed with her Hasselblad and goes for a walk.
This project is about showing the unusual among the usual.
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I explore the chance moments of everyday life, with a focus on pedestrians. For me, streets and public spaces are inexhaustible sources of inspiration.
I always have a camera with me and take pictu
Morar Olimpiadas - Rio 2016, Landscapes of transition and partition
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The award-winning landscape and portrait photographer, Giles Price publishes his first photographic landscape book, Morar Olimpíadas, examining the physical transformation of Rio de Janeiro in the run up to the 2016 Olympic Games.
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An intimate, in-depth documentary account stepping into the lives of the Koreans of Kazakhstan—a people whose story has been largely untold and forgotten, even in the country that was once their homeland.
Great photographers can use almost any camera to capture memorable images—here are 30 photos made with an iPhone, recently published in a small, yet engrossing volume. Read on for our full review.
Waiting and watching: these are the tools of a street photographer. Given enough time, trivial, quotidian scenes can produce something greater—but only when given proper time to "happen."
Clever or unexpected (occasionally even shocking); bright verging on garish—step inside the world of this idiosyncratic street shooter and learn to see with a slightly more mischievous eye.
An intimate, 6-year project documenting the kaleidoscopic worlds which define the Caucasus. Often beginning in the streets, the camera involves the photographer into situations far beyond anything he could have imagined.
A wide-ranging, learned essay and photographic project which investigate the history of agriculture, hearkening back to the day when the practice lay at the heart of "living well"—sadly, so rarely the case today.
"When I first came to Korea, I felt there was a secret behind every corner..." Hailing from the furthest reaches of Canada but quickly adapting to his distant home, JT White discusses how honesty and connection lie at the heart of his street photography.
A Myth of Two Souls and More: Winners of the Prix Levallois 2016
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An epic tale of modern-day mythology showing life across the Indian sub-continent, as well as two intriguing conceptual projects from emerging Italian artists—see all the prize-winners of this French award dedicated to supporting young photographers.
Recent decades have seen Afghanistan repeatedly bruised and brutalized—but today, its people struggle to brush away the dust of conflict and discover their homeland as it should appear: radiant with beautiful colors.
