25 years has passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the symbol of the Cold War. Now the wall is almost completely gone, just like so many other historical monuments from Berlin's dark history. Perhaps one of the best places where you still can sense the history of Berlin,...
James Mollison: Playground
For his latest book, Playground, Mollison has photographed children at play in school playgrounds, inspired by memories of his own childhood, and interested in how we all learn to negotiate relationships and our place in the world at a young age through play. For each picture, Mollison sets up his...
Miikka Pirinen: Fight League Kids
When you think of MMA fighters you are likely to envision beefy men who have a whole extra set of muscles on top of their shoulders, or perhaps what you’ve learnt about the sport from film and television. But as Miikka Pirinen captures in his fascinating series Fight League Kids...
Arturo Soto: When The Time Comes
I am interested in understanding what makes something worth looking at as a picture. This collection of images aims to transform appearances into imaginative prospects that distill a sense of beauty. They are notations in passing, to quote the great Nathan Lyons, factual and disperse like reality itself. The title...
Petros Koublis: In Landscapes
The area that surrounds Athens is composed by a certain antithesis, as the vast urban surface meets with the countryside. Surrounded by the silence of centenarian olive groves, meadows, mountains and seas, the city today struggles to carry the weight of its own existence, facing a rather tough and tense...
Fan Shi San: Great Wall
The photos of “Great Wall” were taken during my 4000 miles cycling journey along the Great Wall of China, from the wall’s west end to the east end. I followed the wall across the mainland of north China. The Great Wall passes through several provinces include Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi,...
Anjès Gesink: Birds Don’t Cry
Holland-based photographer Anjès Gesink work as a volunteer at a Rotterdam bird shelter (Vogelklas Karel Schot). Birds of all kinds of species end up here because of there debilitated condition, because they have flown into buildings or, for example, because they have become entangled in fishing lines. Much avian suffering...
George Steinmetz: Panama Canal
To accommodate larger vessels and increased maritime traffic, Panama has been building a new pair of locks on both sides of the canal. The $5.25 billion expansion project will double the canal’s capacity and open in early 2016. While the gates are all in place on the Caribbean side, there...
Fabrice Fouillet: World’s Tallest Statues
The photographer Fabrice Fouillet was looking to produce work about symbolism and the cult of personality, but couldn’t find the right angle – until he came across a photo of Sendai Daikannon, one of the world’s tallest statues, standing at 328 ft. (100 meters). Fouillet located dozens across the world,...
Albrecht Tübke: Landscapes with flying objects
A majestic vista unfolds as far as the eye can see. Tuscan hills, dappled with snow and caressed by wispy cloud, lie still and unending; our human presence but a fleeting dance in the epic duration considered by this timeless landscape. How does one create a memory of such landscape,...