Tag: photographs

A photographer explores an accidental sea in the desert, and a romance—both very much in flux—and returns with this meditation on transformation, control, and the truths we can learn from geology.

Seventeen years after the Yugoslav wars, large swaths of land in Bosnia are still riddled with active land mines.

Alone together in the metropolis

An exploration of a Ugandan man’s legacy.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?”

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