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Painter Sangram Majumdar invites Guernica to his studio to view a few in-progress paintings and learn about his process.

Peter Hoffman documents an Illinois home that helps refugees take the next step towards establishing a stable new life in the U.S.

Through YouTube and Vimeo, these artists give their fellow Syrians a voice.

Kony 2012 is the starting point—but not the ending point—for this collection of images

Photographer Philip Scott Andrews intimately documents the final flights of the Space Shuttle

Jim Korpi’s camera bears witness to dependent self-reliance, rusted preservation, artificial heritage, and burdened faith along the Ohio River.

Foreign photographs of Baghdad usually have three subjects: guns, bombs, and pickup trucks. Marieke van der Velden shows us what happens when the camera turns a few degrees away.

Alone together in the metropolis

In Russian, a language in which there is a separate word for everything, the word “country” means both the territory and the government.

Clothes make a life.

Against all rules, competitive species engage in quasi-natural acts that involve complex relays of communication.

A selection of work from the 2011 Lagos Photo Festival by forty photographers from around the world.

The grandson of a Holocaust survivor visits the town that was home to Auschwitz.

In these photographs, a series of linked histories are forced together in Utah’s deserted Bonneville Salt Flats.

A photographer finds accidental sculpture throughout India’s Tamil Nadu.

The artist’s installations of shrines in Manhattan’s East Village honor people who lived and died in the neighborhood.

An exploration of a Ugandan man’s legacy.

Reframing Victorian aesthetics.

Imagining the war before the war.

A series of photographs in which, under hypnosis, subjects are instructed to experience the most beautiful landscape imaginable.

This geologic boundary has no regard for political allegiance; it was not determined by wars, by financial interest, or national demarcation.

In each image I’ve incorporated myself twice, once as the Iranian and once as the American.

In the mountains of rural Mexico, a photographer documents the space between staying and going.

Two photographers illuminate the effects of migration in a rural village and one’s own body.

What if a site with the exact geographical features of Paris had existed at another spot on the globe?

There’s something almost magical about the zone. Nature grows exuberantly, wild animals reproduce. There are even people living in Chernobyl.

Since 1997, I have spent several months each year living alongside biologists in the rainforests of Peru, Brazil, French Guyana, and Costa Rica. As an artist I am attracted to the idea that when I am working in a rainforest, I am a “visual researcher.”

I am drawn to this raw urban landscape, which hovers between collapse and regeneration, decay and possibility.

My project? I seek out women involved in direct-action campaigns who are wearing sweaters that, in some way, reflect their ideological intentions.

The maracatu festival becomes an allegory of life itself, in which young and old follow the inevitable rhythm of the dance and the game.

For ages, the idea of the North has fascinated scientists, adventurers, writers, and artists. In 2008 our award-winning photographer spent three months in the Yukon territory documenting the people and scenic beauty.

A day in the life of an empty city.

The few women in the Indian army are battling not only against their country’s enemies but also against poverty, patriarchy, and loneliness.

The Messiah will arrive riding on a white donkey.

For four hundred years, the Raramuri have resisted the modern world. New pressures are separating them from their past.

These collaged photographs are like little puzzles with multiple solutions.

A group exhibition which features emerging contemporary artists whose work harmoniously intertwines around the subject of urban decay.

Photographs of the human relations (or the lack thereof) in big cities.

In forgotten, rundown places, beauty can be found right around the corner.

When you face immobilizing questions of death and free will, what other possibilities are there than turning to religion?

A series of studio images focusing on disused electronics, as well as flora and fauna.

The grand mental institutions of the nineteenth century long ago emptied of all inhabitants, but their skeletons still mark our psychic and physical landscape.

Paintings from the near future and the rich history of science fiction.

From Sumerian creation myths to Amnesty International reports, a silent consensus allows violence to be state-sanctioned and eternally mythologized.

A photographer combines her father’s musings of daily life in basic training with WWII itself.

An Israeli photographer captures Arab men and women at a crucial turning point in their lives.

Egypt’s museums’ grandiose displays reveal and mold the identity of this most ancient of countries.

A photographer chronicles his career as a commercial fisherman, a career he both romanticizes and loathes.

A year after the Green Movement in Iran (and the day after Flag Day in the United States), an Iranian-American artist with 44 flags wonders where to call home. A slideshow

Faced with a lack of concrete, these Ugandan skateboarders took matters into their own hands and built what was likely the first skatepark in East Africa.

The Mannerheim Line, built to protect Finland from the advances of the Soviet military avant-garde, now lies in ruins.

Growing up in a generation raised by television, rap showed me what it meant to be black, and cartoons showed me everything else.

Nestled in the mountains of Massachusetts is Rowe Camp, a summer utopia self-governed by teens.

I came here to understand the primal drive of the modern hunter, writes photographer Erica Larsen, and to find a people who, when the land speaks, can interpret its language.

Works inspired by the anonymous art found in the streets.

At the beginning of 2008, the list of the richest Russians contained 101 billionaires; a magical number that for the time being will not be matched. These photographs document a very different Russia.

These sculptures consider surface as structure to make visible the gritty imperfection of improvisation.

Images of electrical cords. Mirrors. Eggs. Glass. Objects from the “Amazing Savings” thrift store down the street. All driven by the question, “What can a photograph be?”

Guest edited by Shane Lavalette, these photographs are driven by the question, “What can a photograph be?”

Guest edited by Shane Lavalette, these photographs are driven by the question, “What can a photograph be?”

The paintings are glimpses of a scene or fragments of a narrative. Similar to a memory, they are fictional constructions of significant moments.

These paintings focus on the American myth of the seeker, traveling alone through untouched landscapes in search of a revelatory experience of the divine.

These portraits of Russia’s outermost regions were shot in areas with a population density of less than one person per square kilometer.

The claymation videos “Hobo Clown” and “Forest” capture otherworld buffoonery and the sublime, with music by the rock band Grizzly Bear.

These photographs are a melancholy love letter to the Northwest—a personal reflection of the region’s past, its hardscrabble identity, and the turbulent future it must navigate.

These twelve photographs reveal a sublime kind of beauty in the oddities and incongruities of the American highway.

This series of twenty photographs chronicles the Indian village of Vrindavan, which is believed by many Hindus to be the physical manifestation of heaven.

On the eve of the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference, this series of photographs documents the lives of the Gwich’in, whose millennia-old culture is threatened by climate change.

Publish or Perish started simply enough as a series of drawings investigating an amazing piece of machinery that I have marveled over since I was little.

The ice fishing shacks in the lake region of Maine and New Hampshire illustrate a primal narrative, one whose elements are shelter, food, warmth, and an ongoing battle against the caprices of nature.

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According to the United Nations, the oil spill caused by Israel’s attack on Lebanon two years ago is the size of the Exxon Valdez spill from 1989. Photos of the aftermath.

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