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Photographs and text by

Trevor Traynor

Sandbox 6, © 2008 Trevor Traynor

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Sandbox 1, © 2008 Trevor Traynor

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As winter ended and spring began Russia was all mud and dust. Behind the facade of storefronts — bustling streets where people eagerly displayed their adept consumption — lay the apartment complexes where the city sleeps and the playgrounds where their children play.

Toy soldiers. Cold wars. The frost takes a long time to thaw and these images are
testament to a false spring slowly but surely blossoming. Vacancy.

— Trevor Traynor
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The Other Shore

A young Russian prodigy, Nikita Pirogov, approaches photography as a form of visual poetry. Each photograph is self-contained and expresses its own meaning. But when viewed in ever-changing combinations with the other images, they creates further ideas, as words in a poem, or notes in a musical score.

Waking from Dreams of India
Neil Chowdhury visits the towns of his ancestors in India, and tries to come to grips with the confluence of old, new and imagined. The results are intriguing photo-collages.
Daily Life in Kabul
As the war escalates in Afghanistan and foreign dollars continue to flow into the country, aid meant for the masses has, for the most part, only thickened the wallets of corrupt Afghan officials, warlords and drug lords. Michael Christopher Brown delivers a photo-essay along with his first-hand observations.
On the Nest

Dona Schwartz's portraits of expectant parents in the nursery rooms they've created before their first child's birth — and empty nesters in the abandoned rooms of teenagers after they've left home — capture moments of life's transitions with  richness of detail and emotion.