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Homework
Sean Lee, a young photographer based in Singapore, collaborates with his family members to make healing art and silly fun.
Casa de Mujeres
Rachel Mozman directed her mother to play the roles of three women in one fictional Latin American home. These photographs can be read as portraits — like a nested doll — and read as images that reveal the conflict of vanity, race and class that live within one woman.
White Shadow
Slovakian photographer Tono Stano has been artfully distorting positive and negative space in photos of nude models — and the results are wonderful, delightful, surreal, and hard to deconstruct.
Poor Politicians
Frederic Lezmi used his iPhone camera to photograph a series of 28 vandalized political posters he discovered while walking the streets of Kosovo.
Friedlander Self Portraits 1958-2011
This wonderfully delightful book contains more than five decades of quirky self-portraits made by the American master Lee Friedlander.
VII: The Magazine
Exclusive multimedia reports from inside the world of photo-journalism. Often disturbing, always insightful. Updated with fresh content weekly. Shown: detail from a photo-essay, North Korea-Secrets and Lies by Tomas van Houtryve.
When You Were Dying
In this series of work, Rana Javadi starts with old photographs from a famous Iranian photography studio, and then layers them with vintage fabrics, dying flowers and tarnished mirrors — creating a nostalgic tribute to a bygone era of easy living in Iran .
Apashka
An old woman leads a cult-like community in the practice of Sufi rituals on a holy mountain in the far reaches of Kazakhstan. Photo-essay by Pavel Prokopchik.
Archive of Modern Conflict
The inaugural issue of AMC² journal brings together odd groups of work that illuminate lost corners of our cultural life. Photography is, as ever, the keystone of the collection.
 1,000 Buddhas
An ongoing collaborative project reaching out to photographers all over the world — please contribute your photos today!
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The Three Graces
A wonderful compilation of anonymous found photos, each featuring three different women posing for unknown photographers. A wild, loving look at “snapshots of 20th century women”.
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Japanese fine art photographer Seiji Shibuya has just published a masterwork of poetic visual imagery.
This brilliant photobook is an intimate diary-like exploration of personal and cultural identity, compiled by French-born Bruno Boudjelal, who travels to Algiers to discover his father’s homeland and to meet his extended family for the first time.
How do the faces of soldiers change — before, during, and then after, war? Claire Felicie created enigmatic triptych portraits of Dutch marines before, during and after they were deployed to Uruzgan, Afghanistan in 2009-2010.
Russian photographer Irina Popova created a firestorm of outrage when she displayed her documentary series about two young drug addicts and their baby living in squalor in a squat in St. Petersburg.
Photographer Mila Teshaieva is documenting the not-yet-abandoned old ways of living, compared to the rapid, unprecedented change occuring in 3 new oil-rich nation-states bordering the Caspian Sea.
Following up on his ground-breaking coverage of the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Pierpaolo Mittica shows us what remains of the homes, farms and neighborhoods around the Fukushima power plant in Japan.
Dutch photographer Ineke Key uses a panorama camera to capture the odd juxtapositions of land use in the ever-changing Netherlands.
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