Facing economic hardship, a group of largely educated young men smuggle fuel from their country, Iran, into neighboring Pakistan—a high risk endeavor that tempts with its lucrative rewards.
Our Ever-Changing Identities, Revealed by the Lens
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From fashion in the depths of Stasi Germany to the hidden portraits of Taliban fighters, this eclectic exhibition reminds us how the camera’s capacity to reveal our identity lies at the heart of the medium’s fundamental expressive power.
A startling new book about human rights atrocities at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay—and an interview with the photographer who brought these stories to light.
Created as an antidote to the idealized family pictures gathered by his relatives, a striking series that considers the role of the photo album in defining “the American Dream.”
Though a longtime Tokyo resident, nature continues to call out to this Japanese photographer. Taking inspiration from yusurika, tiny midges, he transforms his surroundings into something fantastical.
All families have secrets. Shot on the rocky, windy coast of Maine, a series that teeters on the lip of a divide, exploring the hidden imperfections and deep-rooted support inherent in every family.
By following one of the longest rivers in Asia, this series—and its creator—offer insight into China’s enduring, yet rapidly changing, national identity.
“Sometimes you have to go far away to be able to see again”—a German photographer returns to her roots and delves deep into her country’s complicated, wartime past.
“Appalachia…a place where you can wash away sin in cool stream waters, where corpse birds come to ferry away souls to the next life, where rocks burn and kudzu conceals.” A personal look at the deeply rooted culture of this unique region.
In the farthest reaches of northern Alaska, aboriginal hunters carry on ancient traditions of kayak-building, fishing, and subsistence hunting, all of which are under threat from rapid changes to our climate.
Step onto a boat alongside the fishermen working off the coast of Baja—but be prepared for a long journey. Overfishing has forced these men to travel tremendous distances across open water to provide for their families.
Old buildings are torn down, new buildings are built: like a gigantic creature that sheds its skin as it stretches and grows, the cityscape of Tokyo is in constant flux.
Cultural identity is immensely important to many of us, but as these portraits show, the visible markers of difference can become as much an external imposition as a source of strength.
A curious outsider’s look at one of New York’s most stubbornly down-to-earth neighborhoods—which is sadly beginning to succumb to the city’s tireless forces of gentrification.
Every year in Ibi, a small town in Spain, citizens engage in a mock battle that has centuries-old roots. Their weapons of choice? Flour, eggs, and colored smoke bombs.
Searching for the intersection of geography and history, a photographer from Tel Aviv traversed the vast landscape of Israel in a poetic exploration of boundaries.
Can technology—especially ubiquitous dating apps—help relieve the anonymity that comes from living in a city of 9 million people? A photographer searches for connection in Japan’s capital.
Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes
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Photography has long been seen as a “little death,” a frozen taste of our own mortality. This award-winning project deconstructs our visual representations of a state that is beyond comprehension.
What do children in different countries around the world eat in the course of a week? An investigation of eating habits in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and beyond.
Combining images of the Milky Way and other celestial phenomena with “mature and ancient” forest landscapes, a series that ruminates on our connection to (or detachment from) the natural world.
A unique new photobook containing “gilded tableaux of pure delightful uncertainty” builds a distinctive and alluring world around a young photographer’s vision.
A unique new photobook containing “gilded tableaux of pure delightful uncertainty” builds a distinctive and alluring world around a young photographer’s vision.
Shot in one of the world’s most colorful cities, this unique, award-winning street series focuses on the island’s inhabitants to create a private, quiet space within this popular tourist destination.
Shot in one of the world’s most colorful cities, this unique, award-winning street series focuses on the island’s inhabitants to create a private, quiet space within this popular tourist destination.
Tapping into an outdated, almost mythical image of the USA, a French photographer captures a mood and a moment that he believes may be the final, dramatic act of the American Dream.
Losing Face: Inside the Fall of South Korea’s President
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Over the past year, South Korea was rocked by political scandal, resulting in the ousting of disgraced president Park Geun-hye. A Korean-American photographer takes us inside this historic moment with his stirring, visually distinctive images.
Photography can be a solitary pursuit and our memory a lonely place—this series reflects a dialogue between two artists as they grapple with absent parents and decades of family photographs.
Relying exclusively on the transformative power of the analog camera, this series shuffles nature, geography, and physics into familiar yet fantastical environments.
Relying exclusively on the transformative power of the analog camera, this series shuffles nature, geography, and physics into familiar yet fantastical environments.
We are slowly being conditioned to expect (economic) disparity as the norm—this series offers a visual challenge to such a quiet, insidious acceptance.
Bread and Circuses: Dubai’s Extravagant Contradictions
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What is it like to photograph in one of the world’s most exclusive and PR-conscious cities? A former photojournalist speaks about using a slower documentary approach to pierce into the “parallel world” that is Dubai.
A photographer and her domestic partner use staged portraiture as an expressive way to explore male/female identity and reclaim a personal definition of beauty.
In Search of the Poets and New Masters of Street Photography
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Who are the next great street photographers? Where will we find them? Photo editor Olivier Laurent—serving on the jury of the LensCulture Street Photography Awards—shares his insights.
“After years of absence, an immigrant’s homecoming is an exercise in spectral doubleness. Returning to a city where one grew up, one understands the new order of things but fails to belong to it. Immersed in the here and now, one holds allegiances only t
A reflection on the work of Russian photographer Emil Gataullin—beginning with his childhood in a small town beyond Moscow and running through his arresting, contemplative street photography.
