70 million people worldwide suffer from eating disorders, and yet the subject is taboo—rarely discussed or documented. Here, a project shifts that landscape and offers a new perspective.
LensCulture Emerging Talent 2016: Across an expanse of land larger than Texas and California combined, millennia-old ways of life are under threat by the spread of modernization. Sweeping views on traditional life, from the perspective of a local photographe
Dakar has become a huge, surreal "development" site in Senegal, forcing the question: Are the inhabitants being crushed and swept away by this complex transition or are they slowly taking possession of the new space?
A life-long New Yorker offers an "epitaph" to his many years of city living and through it, a reflection on the joys and stresses of urbanity for all of us.
A wide-ranging discussion about the idea of the "invisible" photographer: "Sometimes you have to choose: is this situation aesthetically more interesting to me? Or it is a situation I want to experience?"
Many photographers want to make photobooks without knowing exactly what goes into the process—emotionally, logistically, psychologically. This essay takes us deep inside the creative journey.
LensCulture Emerging Talent 2016:
Feeling the holiday blues? These carefully composed, highly saturated images of urban landscapes highlight striking design and architecture around the world. Summer travels beckon, just a frame away.
2016 Photobooks of the Year, Part II: 32 Personal Favorites
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A wide-ranging group of experts from around the world share their personal favorite photobooks from the past year—discover something inspiring for the new year!
2016 Photobooks of the Year, Part II: 32 Personal Favorites
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A wide-ranging group of experts from around the world share their personal favorite photobooks from the past year—discover something inspiring for the new year!
Long-Term Storytelling: Puerto Rico, First People, Iraqi Refugees
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Veteran journalist and experienced mentor James Estrin presents new work from three emerging photojournalists while stressing the importance of collaboration in the digital age.
A long-time, highly decorated Iranian photojournalist finds fresh inspiration for his work with a simple new tool—the phone in his pocket. Vibrant mobile photography from across the world.
"Photographs are like your own children..." An internationally regarded portrait photographer reveals a hand-picked selection of previously unpublished works, alongside a few words to accompany her choices.
Dreamlike images from a carefully manicured neighborhood in Southern California that consider the perspective of children who grow up in sheltered, pristine surroundings—beautiful (yet empty?) bubbles.
A poetic mix of text and disparate yet strangely resonant single images, complete with short stories from each of the photographers that help tie them all together.
Cutting Through the Noise: Storytelling in the Digital Age
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From the New York Times, to TIME and WIRED—photo editor, photographer, and Exposure Awards 2017 juror Patrick Witty explores the power of contemporary media and its unparalleled capacity to reach new audiences.
Breathtaking shots of the natural world which remind us of the beauty and fragility of our home—highlights from the latest edition of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
The millennia-old landscape paintings of a famed Chinese artist, combined with a Korean legend, serve as dual inspirations for this poetic, surreal series of contemporary photographs.
What Comes Next: Thoughts on the Future of Photography
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An inspiring and wide-ranging conversation with curator Charlotte Cotton, touching on the big questions about the future of the medium but also offering personal insights, creative advice and encouraging the idea of "career suicide" as a means of re-invention
This three-part narrative explores the harrowing journey—and often insurmountable challenges—faced by undocumented Mexican immigrants who risk fate to make it to the USA.
"I prefer tension to beauty"—step into the ambiguous yet captivating world of this talented photographer, who transforms the stuff of dreams into memorable images.
These prize-winning portraits, focusing on men in the Arab world, challenge our notions of masculinity and force us to reconsider the centuries-old male gaze embedded in the history of art.
Our childhood bedrooms are central to defining who we are. This new book—consisting of 56 diptychs from around the world—shows us the stark inequalities but also deep universals shared by children in every corner of the globe.
Pitch-black nights punctured by sharp shouts and flashes of fish scales—floating on the Adriatic sea on a moonless night, fishermen assess their catch.
A dreamlike domain tests the limits of our perception: in these images, humans and alien creatures coexist in an uncharted, in-between, liquid-black realm.
Using long time exposures, painting with light, and appropriating the faded and cracked colors of old water-damaged snapshots, a new series of photographs conveys complex feelings of loss in profound new ways.
This devastating series of portraits explores the effects of enduring life in a still-struggling Eastern European nation 20 years after the Soviet Army left the country.
Through thoughtful, deliberate sequencing, seemingly unrelated photographs take on fluid, open-ended meanings which come to life in the imaginations of each viewer.
Images of happy cows grazing in fields and stalks of corn waving in the wind are carefully calculated by food companies to draw in consumers. But what does this industry really look like?
The harsh, even spasmodic surprises of our contemporary moment come also with flashes of truth. The new edition of Previously on Hans Lucas brings together a range of images, texts and video to tell the story.
Long practice days, endless tryouts, crushing competition—aspiring Major League Baseball players from Venezuela and the Caribbean face all of this and more on their unlikely road to professional stardom.
Neither daughter nor mother—this photographic performance enacts how the artist was cut from the role of daughter while at the same time denied a maternal role. Simple, moving, inventively cross-disciplinary work.
Street Photography Awards 2016: Finalist
The chasm between tradition and modernity in Iran makes for a tense, alienating social environment. This series investigates life in a city plagued by this dichotomy.
"All alone from the North Pole to the Antarctic in 487 days—a journey in total solitude." These atmospheric photographs balance on the edge of fiction and reality, while exploring the attraction of an imperfect image.
