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7 Rooms
Photographs by Rafal Milach, January 2012In Russian, a language in which there is a separate word for everything, the word “country” means both the territory and the government.
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Abominations
Paintings by Ryan McLennan, December 2011Against all rules, competitive species engage in quasi-natural acts that involve complex relays of communication.
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Lagos Photo Festival
Collection edited by Glenna Gordon, December 2011A selection of work from the 2011 Lagos Photo Festival by forty photographers from around the world.
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The Land of Oś
Photographs by Danny Ghitis , November 2011The grandson of a Holocaust survivor visits the town that was home to Auschwitz.
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Cockettes’ Cusp
Photographs by Pooneh Maghazehe, November 2011In these photographs, a series of linked histories are forced together in Utah’s deserted Bonneville Salt Flats.
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Fishing for Time
Photographs by Candace Feit, October 2011A photographer finds accidental sculpture throughout India’s Tamil Nadu.
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Miniature Shrines
Installations by Legacy Russell, October 2011The artist’s installations of shrines in Manhattan’s East Village honor people who lived and died in the neighborhood.
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The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
Photographs by Andrea Stultiens, September 2011An exploration of a Ugandan man’s legacy.
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Summerland
Photographs by Benjamin Donaldson, August 2011A series of photographs in which, under hypnosis, subjects are instructed to experience the most beautiful landscape imaginable.
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Continental Drift
Photographs by Marion Belanger, July 2011This geologic boundary has no regard for political allegiance; it was not determined by wars, by financial interest, or national demarcation.
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Self Study
by Natalie N. Abbassi, guest-edited by Nina Berman, July 2011In each image I’ve incorporated myself twice, once as the Iranian and once as the American.
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People of the Clouds
by Matt Black, guest-edited by Nina Berman, July 2011In the mountains of rural Mexico, a photographer documents the space between staying and going.
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Seeing Double
by Nina Berman, July 2011Two photographers illuminate the effects of migration in a rural village and one's own body.
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Paris Stupides
by Florent Morellet, June 2011What if a site with the exact geographical features of Paris had existed at another spot on the globe?
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Chernobyl Zone
by Andrej Krementschouk, June 2011There’s something almost magical about the zone. Nature grows exuberantly, wild animals reproduce. There are even people living in Chernobyl.
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Fieldwork
by Sanna Kannisto, May 2011Since 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.”
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Urban Foraging
by Daniel Traub, May 2011I am drawn to this raw urban landscape, which hovers between collapse and regeneration, decay and possibility.
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The Strong, Star-Bright Companions
by Ellen Lesperance, April 2011My project? I seek out women involved in direct-action campaigns who are wearing sweaters that, in some way, reflect their ideological intentions.
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Ensaio (Rehearsal)
Photographs by Bárbara Wagner, text by Giuliano Sergio, April 2011The maracatu festival becomes an allegory of life itself, in which young and old follow the inevitable rhythm of the dance and the game.
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The Idea of North
by Birthe Piontek, March 2011For 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.
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To Conquer Her Land
Photographs by Poulomi Basu, February 2011The few women in the Indian army are battling not only against their country’s enemies but also against poverty, patriarchy, and loneliness.
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The Quest For The Man On The White Donkey
by Yaakov Israel, February 2011The Messiah will arrive riding on a white donkey.
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The Holdouts
by Ruben E. Reyes, January 2011For four hundred years, the Raramuri have resisted the modern world. New pressures are separating them from their past.
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The Universal Now
by Abigail Reynolds, January 2011These collaged photographs are like little puzzles with multiple solutions.
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Atrophic Existence
by Various Artists, December 2010A group exhibition which features emerging contemporary artists whose work harmoniously intertwines around the subject of urban decay.
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Babel Tales
by Peter Funch, December 2010Photographs of the human relations (or the lack thereof) in big cities.
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The City is a Playground
by Alexander Bartsch, November 2010In forgotten, rundown places, beauty can be found right around the corner.
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Painted Flowers and Other Photographs
by Sam Falls, November 2010When you face immobilizing questions of death and free will, what other possibilities are there than turning to religion?
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Separations
by Benjamin Innes, October 2010A series of studio images focusing on disused electronics, as well as flora and fauna.
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Asylum
by Chris Payne, October 2010The grand mental institutions of the nineteenth century long ago emptied of all inhabitants, but their skeletons still mark our psychic and physical landscape.
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Soft Science
by William Swanson, September 2010Paintings from the near future and the rich history of science fiction.
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Torture of Women
by Nancy Spero, September 2010From Sumerian creation myths to Amnesty International reports, a silent consensus allows violence to be state-sanctioned and eternally mythologized.
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My Father’s War
by Cynthia Bittenfield, August 2010A photographer combines her father’s musings of daily life in basic training with WWII itself.
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Eighteen
by Natan Dvir, August 2010An Israeli photographer captures Arab men and women at a crucial turning point in their lives.
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Built on Sand
photographs by Jason Larkin, July 2010Egypt’s museums’ grandiose displays reveal and mold the identity of this most ancient of countries.
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Fish-Work, Bering Sea
by Corey Arnold, July 2010A photographer chronicles his career as a commercial fisherman, a career he both romanticizes and loathes.
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Fighting Flags, a Slideshow
Flags by Sara Rahbar, June 2010A 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.
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Kitintale Skateboarders
by Yann Gross, June 2010Faced 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.
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Lost Edge
by Dimitri Kozyrev, May 2010The Mannerheim Line, built to protect Finland from the advances of the Soviet military avant-garde, now lies in ruins.
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The Block is Hot & Other Work
by Devin Troy Strother, May 2010Growing up in a generation raised by television, rap showed me what it meant to be black, and cartoons showed me everything else.
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Cruel Story of Youth
by Jennifer Loeber, April 2010Nestled in the mountains of Massachusetts is Rowe Camp, a summer utopia self-governed by teens.
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Among the Sámi
by Erika Larsen, April 2010I 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.
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Introduction to New Conditions & Other Paintings
by José Parlá, April 2010Works inspired by the anonymous art found in the streets.
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101 Billionaires
by Rob Hornstra, March 2010At 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. Rob Hornstra’s photographs document a very different Russia.
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Sculpture
by Diana Al-Hadid, March 2010Diana Al-Hadid’s sculptures consider surface as structure to make visible the gritty imperfection of improvisation.
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In Conversation: Lucas Blalock and Talia Chetrit
by Shane Lavalette, March 2010Images 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?”
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Photographs
by Talia Chetrit, March 2010Guest edited by Shane Lavalette, these photographs are driven by the question, “What can a photograph be?”
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Photographs
by Lucas Blalock, March 2010Guest edited by Shane Lavalette, these photographs are driven by the question, “What can a photograph be?”
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At the Lake
by Amy Bennett, February 2010The paintings are glimpses of a scene or fragments of a narrative. Similar to a memory, they are fictional constructions of significant moments.
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Paintings
by Christine Gray, February 2010These paintings focus on the American myth of the seeker, traveling alone through untouched landscapes in search of a revelatory experience of the divine.
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Less Than One
by Alexander Gronsky, January 2010These portraits of Russia’s outermost regions were shot in areas with a population density of less than one person per square kilometer.
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Hobo Clown & Forest
by Allison Schulnik, January 2010The claymation videos “Hobo Clown” and “Forest” capture otherworld buffoonery and the sublime, with music by the rock band Grizzly Bear.
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Sawdust Mountain
by Eirik Johnson, January 2010These 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.
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Forecast For Today
by Dustin Aksland, December 2009These twelve photographs reveal a sublime kind of beauty in the oddities and incongruities of the American highway.
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Waking Vrindavan
by Shane Lavalette, December 2009This series of twenty photographs chronicles the Indian village of Vrindavan, which is believed by many Hindus to be the physical manifestation of heaven.
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Caribou People
by Nicolas Villaume and Laird Townsend, December 2009On 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.
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Publish or Perish
by Kiel Johnson, November 2009Publish 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.
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Ice Houses
10 photographs by Scott Peterman, November 2009The 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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The Burden of Aid
by Ruxandra Guidi; Photos by Roberto Guerra, July 2009Since becoming the world’s first black republic in 1804, Haiti's periods of stability have been few. Today, big donors like the U.S. and the U.N. have invested in this most corrupt country in the Western hemisphere. But have they helped?
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Wasteland
by Bombay Flying Club, June 2009This stunning multimedia video by Bombay Flying Club brings you into the burning Jharia coal fields and chronicles the lives of those who struggle to make a living there.
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Health Part 4: Black Tide
by Mark Seager, June 2008According to the United Nations, the oil spill caused by Israel’s attack on Lebanon in 2006 is the size of the Exxon Valdez spill from 1989. Photos of the aftermath.
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Desperate Intentions
Photographs by Viviana Peretti
7 Rooms
Photographs by Rafal Milach
Other People’s Clothes
Photographs by Caleb Cole
Video: Free Word hosts the launch of Writers Bloc February 3, 2012
Conversations With History: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State February 3, 2012
David Chura: Keeping Lock-up Kids and their Families Connected February 2, 2012