In honor of Pride Month, we are highlighting a handful of features that are rooted in identity, queerness, and self expression.

LensCulture’s editors revisit 26 of the most popular articles from our Archives that feature black-and-white photography – portfolios, essays, interviews, exhibitions and book reviews.

A look back at some favorite photography, writing, and interviews from the first 20 years of LensCulture — pure inspiration from some of the best photographers on the planet!

Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend the historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests.

Prompted by personal loss, Ioanna Sakellaraki embarked on a photographic journey back to her native Greece to immerse herself in the culture of grief and explore its liminal space with her camera.

Love and life play out in Lin Zhipeng’s colorful images where bodies intimately share space with plants and food, free to bloom and flourish away from the conservatism of Chinese society.

Orphaned images from old experiments, archives and random purchases find a home in Ian Jackson’s contemporary reflection on stereoscopy, which explores the mysterious gap created when two images sit side-by-side.

By combining photography with intricate drawings from her personal sketchbook, artist Sara S. Teigen creates intimate work that is simultaneously wondrous and familiar.

Inspired by a collection of objects left behind by her grandmother, Hannah Altman builds a visual world to explore the customs retold and translated over time across the Jewish diaspora.

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.