Torture of Women
by Nancy Spero,September 2010
From 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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