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Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop

A new book traces the history of hip-hop imagery by focusing on the outtakes of famous faces and photoshoots.

Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories

Starting from a mysterious photograph of her great-grandparents, Rebecca Topakian embarks on a journey to discover her own relationship with Armenia.

Raising the Voice of Photography

VOP’s founder and Editor-in-Chief Wei-I Lee talks about the importance of bringing together multiple perspectives on our favorite medium.

Novogen

Explore our relationship between nature and technology through the Novogen White—the chicken that is saving our lives.

The Necessity of Collaboration in Kensuke Koike and Thomas Sauvin’s ‘No More, No Less’

For their ongoing project, this artist duo asked three different publishers to create books of their work. The only catch: they couldn’t see them until after they were printed.

How We See: Photobooks by Women

In this new photobook anthology and touring exhibition, women take center stage in a tradition that has historically ignored their importance.

Shards

Like fragments of multi-layered complex memories, these monochrome “glitch and collage” images work together by simultaneously coming apart and finding each other, putting the pieces together again.

All I Know Is What’s On The Internet

A new show at The Photographers’ Gallery questions our relationship to the rapidly-evolving digital landscape.

An Elegy for the Death of Hamun

For more than 5,000 years, the Hamun Lake in Iran was the life source of its surroundings, but it has changed radically as it suffers the destructive effects of an 18-year drought.

Familie Werden

In Rie Yamada’s absurd investigation into the family album, the photographer restages family portraits, putting herself in every role. 

A Cure for Anthropocene

In this view of climate change, the surface of the earth is like skin, and the degradation of the planet is akin to an autoimmune disease.

City of Gardens

Journey across the many layers of Katowice’s visual landscape through the joint vision of two photographers. 

The Fume of Sighs

By stripping the world of color, this photographer uses black and white processes to visualize the emotional experiences that come with mourning and friendship. 

In My Mind There is Never Silence

The magical figures of the Los Panzudos Mercedarios become part of everyday life in these surreal family photos.

Freezing Land

Youth culture in northeast China endures extreme weather conditions, social isolation, minimal economic opportunities — what will their future hold?

Where We Belong

Enter the close-knit sisterhood of the Jane Austen Pineapple Appreciation Society—a  group bringing the past alive in the present.  

Hues

By embracing humor while confronting important social issues, this photographer creates multi-faceted portraits about sexual, racial and cultural identity.

New Dutch Views

How do Muslim immigrants view the Netherlands? Here are real-life views of contemporary Dutch landscapes as seen from inside Dutch mosques.

My Dear Yakutia

Growing up in one of the coldest regions on the planet, photographer Alex Vasyliev turned to photography to document his unique surroundings.

London Nights

The Museum of London’s exhibition London Nights takes us on a nocturnal stroll through the capital’s geographic, historical and social landscape.

The Sweetness of Envy

A new book by photographer Rachel Cobb expertly captures the invisible phenomenon of wind.

My Travel Through the World on My Copy Machine

In her black and white landscapes, Swiss photographer Dominique Teufen travels the world from her studio, using a copy machine as her vehicle.

Story of Man

America’s racial discrimination is reflected in its historical photography just as much as its historical texts, and this series of photo diptychs addresses the visual cues of this inequality with blunt precision.

Metamorphosis

Photographer Lois Cohen and stylist Indiana Roma Voss reimagine female archetypes from across history as new, empowered icons for the 21st-century woman.

Will My Mannequin Be Home When I Return

By experimenting with flashing light and saturated color schemes, Arko Datto reveals how cultural and political tensions manifest in the darkness of nighttime.

Mester Blousé

Embracing the magic and ritual of his Afro-Caribbean roots, photographer Kevin Osepa creates dualistic images that articulate his personal exploration of religion, sexuality, language and culture.

As It May Be

In this video interview, photographer Bieke Depoorter explains the importance of embracing all reactions to her work - even if it means writing on top of her photographs.

Deana Lawson — Aperture Monograph

These photographs contain multitudes — references to African diaspora, complex emotions, unspoken dreams, dignity, pride, love, visible scars, the trappings of household circumstance, the tenderness of generations. 

Dean Lawson — Aperture Monograph

These photographs contain multitudes — references to African diaspora, complex emotions, unspoken dreams, dignity, pride, love, visible scars, the trappings of household circumstance, the tenderness of generations. 

Go Home, Polish

Michal Iwanowski, who is both Polish and British, walked (and photographed) all the way from his home in London to his birthplace in Poland — registering his own emotions while encountering tremors of racism and populism unleashed by Brexit. 

Flowers for Lisa

In his latest series, Abelardo Morell takes a traditional still life subject — a vase of flowers — and pushes and pulls it well beyond the typical boundaries of that genre, with endlessly delightful results. 

The Y

Like a forensic investigator, Alba Zari methodically started to look for traces of her unknown biological father by using software, real family photos, and a process of elimination, to imagine what he must look like.

Mapping An Interior Landscape

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

Destination Europe

With 35 heart-breaking and riveting photographs, and his own personal account of 18 months on rescue ships, photojournalist Jason Florio provides an unforgettable up-close look at hundreds of African migrants at sea, risking everything for a chance to surviv

The Gifted Mold Archive

In the humid climate of Côte d’Ivoire, artist Cédric Kouamé embraces the natural damage done to historical photographs by repurposing them into new works of art.

New York Noir

Moody, cinematic, timeless — these black and white photos of New York evoke another era and a noirish sensibility, but they were all made within the past two years.

Alibi

Brazilian Alice Quaresma works with photographs, collage, paint and other materials to create serious art imbued with subversive playfulness.

Swallow

Focusing on gestures and intimate moments in varying personal contexts, András Ladocsi addresses the multiple personalities we learn to embody as individuals.

Experimental Relationship

Pixy Liao started using her boyfriend as a “prop” in her photos, but that evolved into an ongoing 12-year project documenting their unconventional relationship, resulting in some eye-opening images.

At the End of the Day

The Outer Hebrides – the remote western Islands of Scotland are the settings for 36 real-life stories of everyday life, hopes, dreams and setbacks for the young adults who love the rich ancient culture that has nurtured them since childhood.
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