Vacuum-packing couples and families into their surroundings, these surreal portraits reveal the binds of love and relationship in a different light.

In these quietly disturbing black-and-white photographs, Tobias Kruse confronts the unsettling first decade of East Germany after the fall of the Wall, including its Nazi past and present.

This photograph speaks volumes. Its simplicity and directness belie the power, emotion and contradictions it contains, which is one reason it was selected as a Top 10 Pick for the 2021 Critics’ Choice Awards.

Out on her partner’s ranch in remote Montana, Lauren Grabelle documents her surroundings with a bite, picturing life as it is lived in wilderness, bordered by mountains and shared with a variety of beasts.

Reimagining portraiture as a playful practice of deconstruction, Karen Navarro’s visual puzzles remind us that identity is a fluid and multifaceted process.

A 25-year-old Romanian photographer appropriates the same tools of the former Securitate secret police to try to come to grips with her parent’s and their generation’s apparent inability to embrace 21st century freedom.