Gus Powell’s photographs have been published in The New Yorker regularly for the past few years as opening images for our Goings On About Town section. When I asked Gus recently if good pictures were to be had after he scouted an art installation for us, he answered, “I do...
Raffaele Petralla: Mari People, a Pagan Beauty
There is a population with Finnish ancestors living in a rural area near Joshkar-ola, in the Republic of Mari-El, Russia. They are called Mari, speak a language belonging to the Ugro-Finnic and use a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet. They settled in this area around the fifth century a.C....
Alexander Gronsky: Norilsk
Norilsk is an industrial city in Russia north of the Arctic Circle. Built in 1935 by forced labourers of the Stalinist regime to exploit the mines of the region, it is now ranked among the most polluted places in the world. Alexander Gronsky was born in 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia....
PhotoBiography: Laura Plageman
Laura Plageman is an artist and educator who lives and works in Oakland, CA. Her images explore the relationships between the process of image making, photographic truth and distortion, and the representation of landscape. She is interested in making pictures that examine the natural world as a scene of mystery,...
Justin Barton: Transnistrian Patriot
The true nature of national identity and our elemental need to bond with patriotism is questioned in the face of portraits of nationalists of a country that doesn’t exist, but whose symbols have exerted a potent enough influence to maintain a frozen conflict for 25 years. During the split of...
PhotoBiography: Hakim Boulouiz
Hakim Boulouiz is a Professional Photographer and an Expert in Urban aesthetics with a multidisciplinary training. He is a big lover of cities, fascinated by order and disorder. He is looking to tell stories around poetry, complexity, mystery and emotion by using all the layers involveding the construction of Urban...
Tamara Dean: The Edge
Tamara Dean’s practice extends across photography, installation and participatory works exploring the relationship between humans and the natural world and the role ritual plays in our lives. Natural cycles within time and space, life and death, nature and spirituality contribute to her way of investigating and engaging with the world...
Julia Solis: Stages Of Decay
Julia Solis explored crumbling theatres still standing throughout America and Europe. Using abandoned spaces as both subject and canvas, Solis details the theatres' stages and decorative elements as well as the eerie toll that age and entropy have taken on the once elegant surfaces. Where once-acclaimed performers such as the...
Vintage color: Everyday Life in Japan from 1949-1951
Collection of rare Kodachrome slides taken by an unknown US Navy Commander stationed in Japan from 1949 to 1951. via m20wc51
Tasneem Alsultan: Protectors of the Mosque
I am a Saudi woman. Constantly being asked the same questions as: “How is it in Saudi?” “Is it true that you are slaves to men?” “But you can’t drive?” “How are you surviving in such a country?”. Alongside many of the Saudi women, we’ve become desensitized. We repeat the...