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 Metropolis
Russian photographer Ivan Mikhaylov has assembled a wonderful series of portraits and short interviews with young people who have moved from the provinces to find new lives in the bustle of Moscow.
 Sun City
Peter Granser looks inside America's oldest adults-only community, Sun City Arizona. Population 38,000. Minimum age, 55 years old.
 Resettlement
Artist Julia Curtin "sampled" iconic photographs of poor dwellings from America's Great Depression, then built scale models of those houses, and covered them with scans from the original photos.
 Autour / Around
Benoit Fougeirol makes quiet, meditative photographs of ephemeral situations on the fringes of the city of Paris. His new book includes poems (in French and English) by poet Michael Batalla.
 Life in Blue
Photographer Evžen Sobek explores life, leisure activity and DIY architecture around artificial lakes in the Czech Republic.
 Smoke and Mirrors
Ellie Davis creates fantasy landscapes where glimmering golden saplings sparkle like fairies in the midst of otherwise dark, dense forests.
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 Subterra
New Zealander Wayne Barrar photographs vast underground spaces – mostly caves and mines – that are currently being re-used for various odd purposes.
 Mojave and Desert Paradise
In the vast and open landscape of the Mojave, traces of man's intervention and neglect are instantly apparent. Markus Altmann reports.
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 Voyage en Périphérie
Cyrus Cornut's look at the bizarre and often alien-like architecture offers a stark counterpoint to typical romantic images of France.
 Red Star, Black Gold
Ollie Woods traveled to a remote coal mine in north eastern China to document one of the last working steam railways in the world.
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Paris Photo's yearly art fair is often viewed as the authoritative, up-to-the-minute guide to what is going on in the world of fine-art photography. This year promises an especially rich offering, with special emphasis on photography from central and eastern Europe. Lens Culture has compiled a preview of more than 300 images in a high-resolution slideshow. The photo above is by photographer Lieko Shiga.
Vee Speers' brand new body of work, Immortal, poses questions about obsessions with youth, beauty and impossible perfection in today's world. 
Over the course of several months, photographer Frederic Lezmi traveled slowly from Vienna to Beirut in search of cultural and geographical "in-between" moments. His wonderfully rich, layered photographs capture the slow and sometimes uneasy transition of cultural symbols and values as one moves from Europe to the Orient. 
This delightfully quirky photobook features a remarkable series of self-portraits made over the course of 60 years. The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery. Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize. 
Israeli photographer Natan Dvir is "fascinated and sometimes frightened by the extreme situations people reach in the pursuit and defense of their beliefs. Regardless of specific religious or political affinities, belief can provide a sense of community, belonging, safety, and understanding, yet might also provoke hatred, separation and aggression." 
Lured by thousands of nightclubs, host/hostess bars, and love-hotels near Tokyo's Shinjuku's station, business people descend from their offices in high speed elevators, only to rise up again in other elevators in other buildings, seeking comfort, fantasy and escape. Photographer Xavier Comas provides an almost voyeuristic view of these moments of vertical transit.
Peter Tonningsen collects odd things that wash up on California beaches near his home. He then scans them on a flat-bed scanner, and arranges those images artfully, and with a sense of humor, to create grids that have a loopy sense of logic.
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