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Nazraeli Press has published work by Alec Soth, Marilyn Minter, Daido Moriyama, and many others. We sat down with Nazraeli’s founder and publisher to learn more about the photobook world.
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A conversation about balancing emotion and concept, finding inspiration in photobooks, and the traits he recognizes in promising aspiring artists.
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The 2011 tsunami in Japan destroyed this artist’s home, decimated her father’s photo studio, and took the lives of her parents. After the disaster, she picked up her father’s camera and created a moving tribute to her lost family.
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The process of moving to a new country is often challenging, especially when you need to learn an entirely new language. Cocoa Laney creates images illustrating the missing information that results from culture shock.
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Alexander Krohmer’s unique take on street portraiture offers an alternative, humanizing view of everyday people from all walks of life around the world.
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Taking its inspiration from our everyday habits, many of which we enact without a second thought, a delicate series that creates new visual stories rich with emotion and feeling.
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Using medical photography associated with the history of cancer treatment, Sophie Gabrielle creatively processes the invisible effects of illness.
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With emphasis on the power of gesture and expression, photographer Gianni Cipriano spotlights the dark, theatrical underbelly of Italian politics.
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Edgar Martins uses the social context of incarceration to explore ideas of presence, absence, and loss—as well as photography’s ability to represent a subject that is missing from the frame.
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Wandering an ancient Aegean island during a period of intense grief, photographer Anargyros Drolapas ponders the island’s geological composition and his own state of mind.
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Following the “Freedom Caravan” that carried Fidel Castro’s remains across Cuba after his death, photographer Michael Christopher Brown offers a revealing portrait of the island nation.
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A poetic, melancholy photo story — What does it look like (and feel like) to age and grow old as immigrants in America?
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At first glance, these artful landscapes might recall Japanese woodblock prints, yet these complex conceptual photographs offer a memorable vision of current areas of nature still affected by the Fukushima disaster.
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Inspired by Japan’s popular three-tiered dessert, these colorful triptychs capture snippets of vibrant street life during the country’s busy flower season.
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An exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre spotlights the work of Vanessa Winship, a photographer with a knack for capturing life on the margins in the Balkans, North America, and beyond.
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Mesmerized by the raucous energy of city-wide festivals in Spain, this photographer ducks into side streets in order to capture the quiet moments that surround these boisterous events.
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While working as a valet at a Veterans Affairs Hospital, M L Casteel created a series that uses photographs of car interiors to illustrate the psychological repercussions of war.
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A long-term multimedia project—involving photographs, written interviews, and audio excerpts—seeks to flesh out the thin and stereotyped representation of migrants in mass media. A review of a new show at Foam.
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Download our latest free guide—filled with inspiration, resources, books, and workshops—dedicated to helping you become a better photographer. Essential reading!
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Cold, otherworldly photographs of Taiwan’s urban cityscape reference the state’s palpable political isolation while drawing attention to the personal disconnection that results from living in a vast, impersonal metropolis.
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These group photographs made on summer beaches in Spain rely on studio lighting and theatrical elements to capture richly detailed, unusual documentary views of everyday beach life.
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“They all mentioned—with words, laughter or glances—a certain unease felt in general, a shortage of meaning in their lives, a sense of not finding their place.” This photographer captures the unaddressed melancholy that often comes with insobriety and partying.
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Strolling around Prospect Park in Brooklyn with a cart full of photographic gear in tow, Bruce Polin creates revealing, compelling portraits of New York City’s diverse inhabitants.
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“These portraits present the diversity of gender: there are as many ways to live as there are people, and each one deserves a closer look.” This photographer uses her camera to offer agency to her non-binary subjects, allowing them to frame their own potrayals.
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In Japan, drivers rated “y ūryō untensh”—excellent driver—have their own stands at major stations and special markings on their cabs. Highly-rated drivers offer their passengers solitude and privacy. Here, a series of street portraits that pay homage to these respected professionals.
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What does it mean to be a beautiful woman? In this book, photographer Natalie Krick plays with the viewer’s expectations and preconceptions about imagery of sensual women.
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In Chittagong and Dhaka, two cities in Bangladesh, people without homes sleep on busy streets surrounded by countless flashing lights from passing vehicles. This series uses a surprising technique to create a new way of visualizing this experience.
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Christy Havranek speaks about the “craft” of visual journalism, the indispensability of photo editors, and the importance of knowing your audience when you’re putting together a pitch.
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Taking its name from the mirage that often appears on the horizon—a false promise of land ahead—this series is a conceptual vision of the dreams of migrants hoping to make their way across the sea and into Europe.
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Portraits of resilience and strength—these young women were captured by Boko Haram and forced to carry suicide bombs. But instead of succumbing to their captors’ torments and committing a violent act, they resisted.
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These seemingly empty images are charged with history, ambition, and—ultimately—disaster. In this series, photographer Karol Palka documents the wilting interiors of abandoned buildings once associated with the Communist regime.
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On an 8,000 mile road trip across the United States, photographer Robin de Puy met a boy living in the small town of Ely, Nevada who became her photographic muse. Here, de Puy speaks about her absorbing series and the history of her powerful relationship with Randy.
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What does it mean to be “free”? Magnum’s photographers responded to this prompt with a broad array of powerful work. See our editors’ selection of 43 iconic images from this latest limited-time offering.
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Debuting with Nan Goldin in 1987, Catherine Edelman Gallery has been a revered player in the art world for 30 years. Here, a wide-ranging interview with the gallery’s owner and founder.
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Galvanized by the idea that there is a “right” way to be a woman, this photographer set out to create spare, revealing portraits of her female subjects—all in search of the qualities that connect every gender.
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Deep in the Ozarks, some individuals chose to live in complete solitude. Here, photographer Matthew Genitempo speaks about the necessity of “losing your agenda, quieting your anxiety, and just following along” in order to create a powerful series.
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Poverty runs rampant on Chicago’s West Side, and yet its residents are largely ignored by the media—as well as those around them. A series that looks closely at the individual people who make up this community rather than considering them as a whole.
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Spurred by incessant propaganda and deeply ingrained national pride, the rights of the citizens of Pyongyang are subsumed by the country’s needs. A series explores this reality for young North Koreans.
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Drawn to the simultaneous manifestation of “both the banal and the mystical” in domesticated animals, R. J. Kern investigates the unique symbiotic relationship between man and the creatures that have existed alongside us for centuries.
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How are unmanned drones produced? What is the rationale used by their manufacturers–and how does it compare to the experience of those on the receiving end of their often deadly force?
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In the aftermath of a stroke, a lifelong photographer was rendered legally blind. Rather than give up image-making, he transformed his practice to reflect his new way of seeing the world.
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Harrowing, deeply affecting firsthand accounts from hibakusha, the surviving victims of history’s only atomic bomb attacks. A much-needed effort to make their testimonies accessible before they are lost forever.
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Inspired by the traditions and symbols of voodoo (a religion with millions of followers in Benin and other West African countries), a fictive portrayal of the culture’s visual forms that draws us in while challenging the Western gaze.
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We spoke to the photo editor of one of Italy’s largest newspapers about commissioning for a daily paper, sourcing local talent, and looking for work that will excite the next generation of readers and viewers.
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Over the course of two years, celebrated curator Anne Wilkes Tucker took a deep dive into the Library of Congress’ massive archive of over 14 million pictures. The result? An exhibition that spans the history of America and photography in over 400 images.
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Packed with jubilant families, the smell of sweet cotton candy, and the sounds of carnival rides, the county fair is a nostalgic cultural institution for many Americans. Here, a photobook that digs deeper into the quiet moments that visitors often overlook.
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“In India, every 40 kilometers everything changes: the food, the language, the mentality. The only constant are the conditions in the governmental offices…”
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Repurposed after the Bosnian War, seemingly unremarkable sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina hide troubling pasts. This project probes the depths of collective memory—and our collective ability to forget.
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What effect does a constantly shifting urban environment have on the psyche of those who live within it? A fictional narrative told through photography that embodies this restless, uneasy feeling.
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The Magnum photographer speaks about why every emerging photographer needs a mentor, his years shooting for National Geographic, and how he maintains his vision across personal and assigned work.
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Anchored in the real world—and yet represented as if in a dream—a series that tries to catch the fading memories of a childhood marked by flight from Communist Poland to Canada in the final years of the Berlin Wall.
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Using the camera to break everyday patterns, to avoid the obvious, and to learn how to truly see, instead of merely looking.
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Finnish people have a special relationship with nature, animals in particular—one that has endured the country’s rapid urbanization and continues to provide a sense of continuity in a changing world.
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“It’s hard to kill history. The beliefs and thoughts of other people, no matter how obscured, can never be erased.” A powerful look at the stubborn nature of memory, even in the face of repression, censorship, or death. Photos by Fatemeh Baigmoradi.
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Drawing on the author’s personal experience of growing up in a religious household in the American South, a series that creates an accepting space for America’s queer youth—while offering a visual diary of youth experience across the USA.
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The number of Muslims in Cuba was once counted in dozens—now, there are more than 9,000 devotees on the island. In this exclusive video interview, learn how a photographer documented the budding interactions between two formerly separated worlds.
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The chilling logic of this infamous site of mass killing is presented as the pure realization of the architectural dictum: form follows function.
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Simple subjects—thread and thin paper in a myriad of shades—set the stage for a series that considers light an active participant in every photograph, sometimes falling softly, sometimes bursting brightly into the scene.
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Perched 13,000 feet above the sea, and nestled within a vast cauldron of mountains deep in the Indian Himalayas, the youngest inhabitants of an area known as “Little Tibet” display a brimming, positive energy that is not easily forgotten.
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In an exclusive conversation with LensCulture, Nixon talks about why he threw away the first photo of “The Brown Sisters,” imparts some invaluable wisdom gained from 40+ years of making portraits—and reveals the moments when you need to put down the camera and simply be present.
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In a small town in rural Poland, a photographer grapples with the distinct ordinariness of her town—and devises an atmospheric series that might grant her a means of escape.
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How has the development of digital technology altered the way we depict (and perceive) the natural world around us? A richly conceptual—and uniquely constructed—series about an island off the coast of Spain.
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Imposing (yet inscrutable) obelisks tower over gentle, indifferent landscapes. With no notion of their purpose, their massive forms offer viewers space to question the relevance of the physical in our increasingly virtual age.
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“It all started in Sarajevo…” In this exclusive video interview, Alizé Le Maoult recounts how she was compelled to create an archive of portraits of photojournalists after a life-altering experience during the Bosnian War.
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A series that weaves traditional documentary-style images with visceral still life compositions. Together, they form a piercing outsider’s perspective on the lives of young women living and working in Accra, Ghana.
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North of the Arctic Circle, a city that owes its existence to a mining company finds itself existentially threatened by these very same excavations. A visual story that plays with the complex relationship between dependence, necessity, and nostalgia.
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Combining vintage negatives with photographs taken from ESA’s space mission “Rosetta,” this series considers the ephemerality of humanity next to the vast, infinite mystery of the celestial realm.
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Too often, depictions of famine fall into set visual patterns, which can be disrespectful and uninformative. This series rejects clichés and instead offers a clear, memorable approach to an urgent topic.
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India’s Ganges river is a potent symbol of both civilization and spirituality, an almost living entity (it has even been given the same legal rights as the country’s people). Yet today, it is on the brink of ecological crisis—this award-winning series investigates.
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With deep sensitivity and reverence, Inbal Abergil photographs the mementos and possessions treasured by families who have lost a soldier in the line of duty.
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Documenting gas stations in more than forty states across the United States, this series offers a vision of the American experience at the end of the 20th century. An exclusive video conversation with David Freund.
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New, modern technology has begun to permeate rural Brazil, making old ways of life seem quaint while enticing young people to move into the cities to seek their fortunes. Meanwhile, for the rural residents who remain, change doesn’t come so easily…
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Legendary photographer Peter Lindbergh—credited with revamping the standards of fashion photography in the 1990s—offers his seasoned point of view in this exclusive conversation covering his early years, authenticity as an artist, and more.
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Oil, tourism and globalization have forever changed the vistas around the Persian Gulf. As the terrain transforms, tradition and modernity collide in surprising (and not always positive) ways.
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“If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, why are we fed so much imagery about what we are supposed to look like?” A series that challenges traditional notions of beauty and revels in the supple forms of the human body.
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Seeking answers about a large parcel of land that is part of his inheritance, this photographer created a compelling conceptual project that delves into the composition—and therefore the meaning—of a wild wooded area in Finland.
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How have painting and photography intersected throughout history? A curator at the largest art museum in the western United States shares a few examples (and picks her favorite portrait photographs) in this exclusive interview.
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We have become accustomed to the huge amount of advertising that bombards us from all angles throughout our day—but what would the world look like with these promotions removed? This series investigates.
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A Hungarian town known, in its summer guise, for a glistening lake, charming streets, and warm breezes is redefined and seen anew by a local during its quiet winter months.
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With an eye for repetition and the aesthetic pleasures of smooth, planar surfaces, this award-winning photographer encourages us to look more closely at the delicate arrangements that surround us every day.
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A gorgeous, inventive and challenging project, which allows us to embrace “the diversity of vision” and immerse ourselves in new, colorful realities. Visit Sanne De Wilde’s memorable exhibition in our in-depth video interview.
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Edward Burtynsky, Klea McKenna, and Joni Sternbach are a few of the artists represented by Von Lintel—here, director Kaycee Olsen offers her insights on the delicate process of approaching a gallery.
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Life in contemporary Turkey exists in two parallel, increasingly fraught worlds. Walk through an exhibition with this award-winning photographer in our exclusive video interview.
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What makes a portrait powerful? How do you create editorial work while maintaining your personal vision? A conversation on these topics (and more) with Siobhán Bohnacker, senior photo editor at The New Yorker.
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This photographer’s seven-year-long project takes an ancient Indian epic—The Ramayana—and reimagines it with contemporary photography shot all over the country. Hear from the photographer and traverse the sub-continent in this video interview.
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A rich list of interviews, visual stories, and other photo projects that captured our readers’ attention in 2017.
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Step into the studios, homes, and exhibitions of some of your favorite photographers through these exclusive video interviews. This is a selection of our favorites from the past year.
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Presenting our favorite features from the entire year. The photographs in these stories are worth another look—dive in and enjoy.
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Photographer Elinor Carucci gives us a behind-the-scenes look at shooting a commission for the venerable magazine.
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With more than 20 years of picture editing experience, the Guardian’s Head of Photography offers her thoughts on the contemporary news landscape and the future of photography in the news.
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Waxed paper negatives, hand-colored daguerrotypes—what do the origins of photography have to tell us about our practice of the medium today? A great deal, according to this curator.
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A virtual experience at MIT explores urgent questions about the nature of war photography, photojournalism, and the purpose of photographs taken during a conflict.
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The founder of the first international photography festival in East Africa (and an artistic force herself) explains her own daring use of primary colors while calling upon us to help increase diversity in the photography world.
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20 years after his father’s sudden death, Jacob Aue Sobol compiled a collection of all his prior work in his honor. Learn more about Sobol’s journeys through Greenland, Siberia, Tokyo—and those he took within himself.
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LensCulture spent a morning following Ballen around a massive, immersive installation he created at Arles this summer—explore the artist’s labyrinthine unconscious (and your own) through this video interview.
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“‘Attention Vandals: if you don’t want to be shot, stay away from this street.’ That was home.” A longtime San Francisco resident looks back on the rapid gentrification of her neighborhood while offering some hope for the city’s future.
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Michael “Nick” Nichols reflects on an incredible career as a wildlife photographer (and later, Editor-at-Large) for National Geographic.
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Lebanon and America are a world apart—or are they? Portraits of young women that traverse perceived boundaries of nation, religion, status, and more.
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These soaring aerial photographs pair Los Angeles and New York from above, showing us enthralling visual patterns while hinting at the discrepancy between how the rich and poor live in America.
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Award-winning photojournalist Renée C. Byer talks to LensCulture about making an authentic connection with the people she documents and the life-changing relationships formed along the way.
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Art advisor and gallery owner Dina Mitrani speaks about the process of selling to collectors, creating an eye-catching CV, and the unique bond that ties photographers with their representatives.
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We sat down with a curator from the Museum of Fine Arts to discuss the “father” of modern photography and the future of museum collections in our digital world.
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Picked by juror Alec Soth in our Magnum Photography Awards, this series captures the unique culture of the Forest Finns, a people defined by their connection to nature and a set of beliefs rooted in shamanistic tradition.
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A gallery director takes us behind the scenes and reveals the best way to present your work at a gallery meeting, the digital future of the fine art world, and the biggest impediment to art sales.
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How do you find a gallery that’s a good fit for your photography? Also: never overlook the importance of how you print your work. Lots of great advice from a Brooklyn gallery.
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Mesmerizing and inventive images that explore the vibrancy and energy of Nigerian youth culture—it’s no wonder that Namsa Leuba was chosen as one of this year’s Foam Talents.
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The newest graduates from Yale’s acclaimed program have put together an innovative and surprising graduation show, one heavily influenced by America’s current political climate.
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Arresting new images—”sharp, dry, precise…at times instinctive and surgical”—from an award-winning series that reveals the interior worlds of refugees living on the streets of Athens.
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The beach is a great equalizer—no matter one’s way of life, everyone sheds their clothing (and social conventions) as soon as they step onto the sand. Here, varied moments of enjoyment from seasides around the world.
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In a new exhibition at SF Camerawork, artists interpret the titular theme in a multitude of ways. Expect to see acrobats and trained animals—but also a sharp critique of our contemporary media environment and the everyday spectacle that is (American) politics.
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A look at how photographers are using Instagram to convey the day-to-day realities of living in conflict—with a selection of accounts to follow if you want to stay up to date. [Content warning: some violent images of war]
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In a society where broken things are discarded almost instantaneously, an artist takes inspiration from Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, which highlights the beauty of imperfection.
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Follow a collaborative duo into the homes of celebrated Polish World War II pilots and hear their remarkable stories—all the more poignant because of how quickly they are fading from memory.
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“Whatever you think, think the opposite” is an expression that is often heard in Japan—this series looks at the country’s modern beauty while exploring its lasting influence on Western art.
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The language of street photography is used as a prism to understand Africa’s complex post-colonial history in this award-winning project.
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Relationships between siblings are filled with contradictions: love, protection, competition, envy. Embracing in one moment, wrestling in the next, this dynamic is acted out over the course of a lifetime.
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“A story about life and death…a story of men who risk everything in order to provide a better future for their families; a story of contemporary heroes who undertake a Homeric journey into the unknown…”
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Drifting through the streets of Tokyo in search of the idiosyncratic, electric moments that inspire the click of the camera—hoping to leave behind unforgettable images.
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Gun owners in the American Midwest use all kinds of items for target practice—including computers, books and fire extinguishers. Examining these objects reveals the deep social and political significance of this contentious pastime.
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Just two hours from Madrid lies one of the least populated regions in Europe. Wander amidst the dense forests and you might encounter the ancient Celtic gods that once presided over this land…
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A visually distinctive look at the tradition of the Spanish greyhound and the identity of a single hunter whose bond with these dogs runs deep.
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One of Latin America’s most respected photographers speaks with LensCulture about his personal history and its effect on his work—as well as making images that “come alive inside the viewer’s being.”
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The islands in France’s Gironde estuary sometimes appear and disappear, emerging and disappearing with the floods, providing the backdrop for a series that questions our relationship to the earth and time.
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Teetering between our reality and an undefinable world, these portraits—created in a village in Benin—are loaded with magic, intensity and doubt.
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After packing her gear into saddlebags on either side of her Harley-Davidson motorcycle, this photographer rode 8,000 miles to capture distinctive faces across the United States.
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Shot at the height of the summer in Norway, this series reflects the photographer’s restlessness and the images’ dual nature—toeing the line between soothing and unnerving.
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The American landscape is vast, inspiring, filled with drama and beauty—but also a whole lot of nothing. These photographs explore the places in-between.
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On assignment for Save the Children, a photographer witnesses the unconditional love and concern of a father for his daughter.
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“25 years ago I woke up in a hospital with no memory of how I had gotten there…” Photographs that explore the deeply personal space between what is known and what is felt: a study of mental illness.
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In the highlands of Ecuador, fantastical stories are passed down through generations by oral tradition. This series is inspired by the symbols present in these myths, bringing them to light—and preserving them—in the modern day.
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Every day, a vast number of Iranian women defy repression and carry out small acts of defiance—wearing their headscarf too low or with defiantly bright colors. In these portraits, brave individuals speak freely about this growing resistance.
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A technique based in coincidence and chance—rewinding film after it is exposed and overlapping the images—stands in for our experience of reality, balanced between the world we perceive and the world(s) we overlook.
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“The photographic image reminds us that the world is going down—and that probably helps us live better among the shadows, ruins and ghosts…”
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Disorienting images that play with the (artificial) boundary we create between what is “human” and what is a part of the “natural” world.
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Transitory spaces (hotel rooms, airplanes) allow us to gain a deeper understanding of the inherent transience of our contemporary moment.
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An intimate series recounts the personal stories of refugees and tackles a critical question—how to engage audiences numbed by ever-growing statistics, which obscure the individual basis of the crisis.
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A trio of striking portraits help remind us of the important contributions that Africans have made throughout Europe history.
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A remarkable photobook about the extremes of life in Afghanistan—distinctive both for the strength of its pictures and the fact that the photographer is a Kabul native, thus offering us fresh, personal insight.
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This portrait series gives center stage to refugee families who have come forward to share their stories—accounts that need to be heard around the world.
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On the border of Europe lies a mass grave: the Mediterranean. This series presents objects found on the bodies of drowned refugees in an effort to humanize the numbing statistics.
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Life for Brazil’s Afro-Descendants is hard—not least of all because of the looming spectre of homicide, which visits this population at an appalling rate. These portraits introduce us to bright, young men who reveal their hopes, fears, dreams and experiences.
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Even 50 years later, her face and silhouette remain ubiquitous, while her meteoric rise and fall continue to embody the allure (and dangers) of the Hollywood Dream.
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What goes into pitching, researching and publishing a story at one of the world’s most venerable magazines? Sarah Leen takes us behind the scenes in this generous interview.
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We all live in uncertain times—but for young people, the process of self-discovery is even more unsettling when set against the backdrop of our mercurial world.
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Catching up with acclaimed street photographer Matt Stuart: on his Magnum nomination, his recent travels abroad, and the quote by Cartier-Bresson that keeps him going.
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A beautifully photographed meditation on our relationship with nature, told through one of environmentalism’s most sacred places: Walden Pond.
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Members of a century-old Baptist church in Los Angeles come dressed to impress, expressing their unique personal styles during the Sunday morning service.
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“Love thy neighbor as thyself”—a common phrase, but one that takes on new meaning for this photographer in the aftermath of the deeply divisive American election.
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It is said that wolves went extinct in Japan in 1905, after being venerated for centuries as spiritual protectors. Yet today, people report sightings and hear the sound of their howls in the mountains…
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Alongside the Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities in Jerusalem, a curious photographer was drawn to discover the vast and ancient world of Ethiopian Orthodoxy—one more tight-knit community in this “city of gods.”
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A follow-up to the acclaimed series “Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country,” this project hints at the growing sense of challenge, confrontation, and isolation facing refugees in the current climate of extremism.
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Unstaged, dystopian photographs from the streets of Paris: As with Godard’s Alphaville or George Orwell’s 1984, there is a predictive prescience in these photographs along with descriptive clarity.
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In today’s world, success is closely tied to perceived perfection. Appropriating the style of traditional portraiture, this series questions the use of products that promise to augment our physical appearance.
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Delving into the work of a “master appropriator,” who uses the power of search engines to capture and archive striking bits of information that would otherwise be lost in the ocean of online data.
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“It felt like a discovery that I could make an image that was photographic but made through touch rather than through the sight of a camera.”
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The time between adolescence and adulthood is fraught with mercurial shifts in mood, awkward bodies, and charged interactions—”a crucial time in our lives that we can never get back.”
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Drawing on more than four decades of experience photographing around the world, legendary Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas shares direct, critical advice for anyone invested in the documentary tradition.
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“Editing is the only chance we have to confront our images face-to-face…one of the most powerful tools that we can use to create our greatest photographic works.”
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El Salvador’s women have been told to abstain from pregnancy from two years due to the Zika virus, and yet they live in a country where rape is rampant, abortions result in decades of jail time, and even legitimate miscarriages are penalized.
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In 2014, the Iraqi city of Mosul fell into ISIS’ hands. In October 2016, the effort to liberate it began. Months later, the titanic struggle continues; the scale of destruction has surprised everyone but ISIS.
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In the eastern corner of Turkey, entire communities go about their days without the constant hum of dislocated communication. Looking at their lives, we can ask ourselves: what have we lost in the midst of our dizzying technological gains?
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Newly released images from Burtynsky’s forthcoming project, “Anthropocene,” as well as stunning shots from his most recent book “Salt Pans.”
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The Mundari people depend on their cattle for survival: they are a form of currency and indicators of status, and thus are defended at all costs. Delve into tribal life in South Sudan through this award-winning series.
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Idiosyncratic images that pull you into the vibrant, fragmentary experiences of Istanbul’s young, creative inhabitants—all set against the stark backdrop of the city’s increasingly restrictive politics.
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Seminal photographer and educator David Hurn talks to LensCulture about the photograph that inspired him to start his career, his most important work and the “essential problem of photography.”
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Photographs from this important new book feature children born after 1994 in Rwanda and South Africa: “young people who inherited the racial and tribal divisions that fractured their countries and left them to pick up the pieces.”
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After decades as Poland’s “El Dorado,” the industrialized economy of Upper Silesia crashed and burned, leaving its residents jobless and adrift. Today, even as a new identity forms, the past still lurks in the shadows.
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Balancing on the edge between real and fictional worlds, these photographs grapple with the psychological responses—exhaustion, depression—that are a consequence of our hyperactive world.
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Massive monuments raised by the former states of Yugoslavia praised the successes of a more egalitarian, antifascist society. Recent developments, however, question how much progress has really been made.
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“The images, when confronted with one another, all seem to be multiplied, resonant, vibrant, immense…they take us far, far away, and present invisible answers to our infinite questions.”
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Inspired by the efforts of Depression-era photographers like Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, a Lithuanian photographer sets out to record a similarly watershed moment in the history of his homeland.
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Photographs that use feelings of fear and wonder as tools to explore the collision of the contemporary city—Phoenix, AZ—with the dark, untamed desert wilderness.
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From an American Civil War reenactment in the Czech Republic to a Bavarian festival in Michigan, Europe and the US are fascinated by each other’s cultures. A selection of images from these strangely transnational events.
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Water parks in southern Brazil are isolated microcosms where vanities, bodies, and fantasies are on display. A look at the self-conscious interactions between photographer and subject in this unorthodox landscape.
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Portraits from East Africa that delve into the challenges of creating portrayals that are genuine yet unobtrusive.
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“At the end of the day, it’s the photographer who drives it all…” A generous look behind the scenes with Vanity Fair’s long-time photographic visionary, Susan White.
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A mysterious, haunting experiment with the very concept of portraiture—using the photograph as the stage to create “questions within the image.”
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Beautiful images of human waste within nature highlight—and problematize—our undeniable impact on the environment.
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Distrust runs rampant in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster. Besides the heartbreak of losing family members to the catastrophe, residents must cope with years-long displacement and authorities they can no longer trust.
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Time slows, flexes, expands, and dwindles in Thailand after the death of the country’s monarch—a historic moment revealed through wide-ranging portraits of Bangkok’s citizens.
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People living with albinism face challenges around the world—some subtle, some life-threatening. This series aims to counter negative stereotypes and celebrate the unique beauty inherent in the condition.
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Bare, piercing images of a Swedish man mourning the loss of his wife—a heartbreaking look at life after the death of your partner.
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A visual exploration of the distinctly American, industrial version of “the pastoral”—examining how human innovation impacts our natural spaces.
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“Blue is Darkness Made Visible”—taking a dying film director’s words for inspiration, a photographer who feared going blind sought out moments of inspiration and renewal.
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The visions created by our minds through our five senses are completely real to us, but how do others perceive them? A meditative series on the beauty and frailty of perception.
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Seeking to see her home town with fresh eyes after 18 years, this photographer set out to rediscover the people, aesthetics, and spaces of her Dutch seaside environs.
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Two brothers—one addicted to photography, the other to harder and harder drugs. But the latter loved being photographed, making the image the medium of exchange for this pair of kindred souls.
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Pushing the boundaries of the medium, this artist hacked into state-controlled surveillance systems and gleaned classical landscape images that question the changing relationship we have with place.
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<div>Separated from their families, crushed into insufficient transports between borders, and caught in prolonged waiting periods—this documentary series looks back at the trials of the migrant exodus through the Balkans.</div>
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We base our identities on memory, yet over time, these defining points in our lives become (re)shaped through the act of reflecting on them. An aesthetic (yet scientific) look at this mercurial subject.
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“White American masculinity is a construct. It is the subtext in detergent and power tool ads, crystallized at football games and in sermons, described in the design of little boys’ clothing…”
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Across an expanse of land larger than Texas and California combined, millennia-old ways of life are under threat by the spread of modernization. Sweeping views on traditional life, from the perspective of a local photographer.
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A long-time, highly decorated Iranian photojournalist finds fresh inspiration for his work with a simple new tool—the phone in his pocket. Vibrant mobile photography from across the world.
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Each lost in their own, invisible thoughts, the people in this series move through a world that is at once intimate and completely remote.
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“All alone from the North Pole to the Antarctic in 487 days—a journey in total solitude.” These atmospheric photographs balance on the edge of fiction and reality, while exploring the attraction of an imperfect image.
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Photography, embroidery, philosophy and sculpture interweave in this delicately beautiful series of landscapes of the Swiss mountains.
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This intimate series is the result of the photographer’s decades-long fascination with a remote valley, its idiosyncratic inhabitants and a long, personal history of family strife.
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A French photographer, dropped in the middle of Québec, confronts complete immersion in a foreign environment, producing an unflinching portrait of his surroundings.
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Blue Velvet meets Norman Rockwell: seemingly idyllic scenes of Americana come tinged with unease. Amidst the carefully staged serenity, hidden antagonists lurk, exposing the frayed edges of daily life.
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An affecting, harrowing and forceful work of photojournalism—and the first publication by Magnum member Michael Christopher Brown. One of our top books for 2016. WARNING: Graphic images and violence.
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Know and respect your subject; a sense of trust is critical—advice from National Geographic photographer Melissa Farlow on how to get past people’s barriers and create powerful photographs.
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