Tag: photography

Bronx-born, Puerto Rican photographer Elle Pérez explores queer identity in rural Tennessee.

A profile of photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier, whose exhibition A Haunted Capital is at the Brooklyn Museum through August.

The multiform artist creates mixed-material worlds from ceramics, drawing, and photography.

“We Went Back: Photographs from Europe, 1933 – 1956″: Chim at the International Center of Photography

Amitava Kumar and Teju Cole collaborate on an ekphrastic project exploring how Cole’s paired images intersect with the works of artists ranging from Sontag to Singh.

The best minds of a generation captured on a thirteen-dollar Kodak Retina.

Holiday celebrations in a Yemeni village defy the country’s reputation.

Aerial photos from Greenland take climate change out of the realm of abstraction.

Ki-Suck Han’s death on a New York City subway track has the city asking what would I do? One writer examines death in public, how the MTA handles trauma, and what it feels like to be an onlooker.

Guernica’s art editor, Noah Rabinowitz, and photographer John Francis Peters discuss what they saw while working on and off assignment in the days after Hurricane Sandy.

A massive collection of pre-digital photography shows a nation in transition—and manages bring Facebook-level connectivity into a gallery space.

Young Lagosian photographers examine the corners of their city that often go unseen.

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.

A visit with the curator of “Rise and Fall of Apartheid” shows how photographers revealed South Africans’ struggles to the world.

Kelly K. Jones’s work explores the boundary between documentary and conceptual ways of image making.

Equipped with a mirror, painter’s easel, a camera, and his formal training in biology, scientist-turned-artist Daniel Kukla explores where the low Sonoran Desert meets the high Mojave.

In Berlin, the photographer’s fascination with separation and unity has unexpected resonance.

Avoiding the simplistic narratives of Afro-pessimism and Afro-optimism, photographer Peter diCampo uses photo-apps to represent everyday Africa.

Daniel Shea’s series “Blisner, Ill.” portrays the crises of titanic mythologies.

Cambodia’s temples—Angkor Wat, Pre Rup, and Beng Maelea—invite reflections on land mines, Buddhism, and photography.

Making music in war-torn Eastern Congo

Photos of empty performance spaces in Lagos capture the spirit of Fela Kuti’s famous nightclub and strip back the chaos of one of the world’s busiest cities.

Exploring minority religions in Poland, Katarzyna Majak’s images probe prejudice against witchery, questions of aging, and feminine divinity.

Photographer Julien Chatelin’s images capture Egypt’s surreal and absurd rural landscape; a road that leads to nowhere.

Haniya Rae interviews Jessica Porter on the process of curating artist Katarzyna Majak’s new photography exhibition, ‘Women of Power.’

South Africa’s Pieter Hugo on negotiating representations of Africa, the searing controversy surrounding his work, Nick Cave, and his friend the late Tim Hetherington.

‘Murder is My Business,’ an exhibition of Weegee’s gritty photographs, opens at the International Center for Photography.

Irina Rozovsky contends with questions of how land, identity, and conflict can be identified into two-dimensional form.

Candace Feit on her work exploring loneliness and solitude among fishermen in Tamil Nadu, on India’s south coast.

Cindy Sherman-esque conversations overheard at the Cindy Sherman MOMA exhibit.

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

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.

Artist Wardell Milan on dioramas, Matchbox villages and riffing on Ralph Ellison.

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

Lagos Photo Festival founder Azu Nwagbogu on combating Afro-pessimism, the dialogue between Africa and the West, and depicting the “other Africa” of industry and intellect.

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.

An exploration of a Ugandan man’s legacy.

Imagining the war before the war.

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

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.

A photographer and former Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana observes the beauty of the dark and the politics of electricity. (With video.)

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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?”

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