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Zukunft (Future)

“Sometimes you have to go far away to be able to see again”—a German photographer returns to her roots and delves deep into her country’s complicated, wartime past. 

The Prevailing Winds of Hills and Heritage

“Appalachia…a place where you can wash away sin in cool stream waters, where corpse birds come to ferry away souls to the next life, where rocks burn and kudzu conceals.” A personal look at the deeply rooted culture of this unique region.

Unbroken Lineage: The Keeper of Knowledge

In the farthest reaches of northern Alaska, aboriginal hunters carry on ancient traditions of kayak-building, fishing, and subsistence hunting, all of which are under threat from rapid changes to our climate.

Scrap and Build

Old buildings are torn down, new buildings are built: like a gigantic creature that sheds its skin as it stretches and grows, the cityscape of Tokyo is in constant flux.

Blue Echoes

Step onto a boat alongside the fishermen working off the coast of Baja—but be prepared for a long journey. Overfishing has forced these men to travel tremendous distances across open water to provide for their families.

Masks, Myths and Subjects

Cultural identity is immensely important to many of us, but as these portraits show, the visible markers of difference can become as much an external imposition as a source of strength.

Enfarinats: Spain’s “Flour War”

Every year in Ibi, a small town in Spain, citizens engage in a mock battle that has centuries-old roots. Their weapons of choice? Flour, eggs, and colored smoke bombs.

The Last Days of New York City’s Chinatown

A curious outsider’s look at one of New York’s most stubbornly down-to-earth neighborhoods—which is sadly beginning to succumb to the city’s tireless forces of gentrification. 

Universal Experience: Truth, Authenticity, and Tourism

These monumental landscape photographs address our universal need for authenticity in an increasingly manufactured world.

Along the Break

Searching for the intersection of geography and history, a photographer from Tel Aviv traversed the vast landscape of Israel in a poetic exploration of boundaries.

Tokyo: City of Strangers

Can technology—especially ubiquitous dating apps—help relieve the anonymity that comes from living in a city of 9 million people? A photographer searches for connection in Japan’s capital.

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes

​Photography has long been seen as a “little death,” a frozen taste of our own mortality. This award-winning project deconstructs our visual representations of a state that is beyond comprehension.

Daily Bread

What do children in different countries around the world eat in the course of a week? An investigation of eating habits in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and beyond.

Stars

Combining images of the Milky Way and other celestial phenomena with “mature and ancient” forest landscapes, a series that ruminates on our connection to (or detachment from) the natural world.

The Nature of the Beast: Living on the Land in Los Angeles

An exploration of the city of Los Angeles—chaotic, ad hoc, rapacious—and its relationship to the unique landscape that surrounds it.

The Nature of the Beast: Living on the Land in Los Angeles

An exploration of the city of Los Angeles—chaotic, ad hoc, rapacious—and its relationship to the unique landscape that surrounds it.

Maiden Voyage

A unique new photobook containing “gilded tableaux of pure delightful uncertainty” builds a distinctive and alluring world around a young photographer’s vision.

Maiden Voyage

A unique new photobook containing “gilded tableaux of pure delightful uncertainty” builds a distinctive and alluring world around a young photographer’s vision.

B-Uranus: Inside an Island in the Venetian Lagoon

Shot in one of the world’s most colorful cities, this unique, award-winning street series focuses on the island’s inhabitants to create a private, quiet space within this popular tourist destination.

B-Uranus

Shot in one of the world’s most colorful cities, this unique, award-winning street series focuses on the island’s inhabitants to create a private, quiet space within this popular tourist destination.

Power in Simplicity: How This Modern Photographer Mastered His Style

A behind-the-scenes look at a new exhibition of Charles Sheeler’s striking work reveals a critical skill for all photographers.

America: Relax, Everything Is Fine!

Tapping into an outdated, almost mythical image of the USA, a French photographer captures a mood and a moment that he believes may be the final, dramatic act of the American Dream.

Losing Face: Inside the Fall of South Korea’s President

Over the past year, South Korea was rocked by political scandal, resulting in the ousting of disgraced president Park Geun-hye. A Korean-American photographer takes us inside this historic moment with his stirring, visually distinctive images.

Fade Like A Sigh

Photography can be a solitary pursuit and our memory a lonely place—this series reflects a dialogue between two artists as they grapple with absent parents and decades of family photographs.

Botanical Inquiry

Relying exclusively on the transformative power of the analog camera, this series shuffles nature, geography, and physics into familiar yet fantastical environments.

Botanical Inquiry

Relying exclusively on the transformative power of the analog camera, this series shuffles nature, geography, and physics into familiar yet fantastical environments.

All That Glitters…

We are slowly being conditioned to expect (economic) disparity as the norm—this series offers a visual challenge to such a quiet, insidious acceptance.

Bread and Circuses: Dubai’s Extravagant Contradictions

What is it like to photograph in one of the world’s most exclusive and PR-conscious cities? A former photojournalist speaks about using a slower documentary approach to pierce into the “parallel world” that is Dubai.

Beautiful Boy

A photographer and her domestic partner use staged portraiture as an expressive way to explore male/female identity and reclaim a personal definition of beauty.

Back to Petersburg: Past Perfect Continuous

“After years of absence, an immigrant’s homecoming is an exercise in spectral doubleness. Returning to a city where one grew up, one understands the new order of things but fails to belong to it. Immersed in the here and now, one holds allegiances only t

In Search of the Poets and New Masters of Street Photography

Who are the next great street photographers? Where will we find them? Photo editor Olivier Laurent—serving on the jury of the LensCulture Street Photography Awards—shares his insights.

Rio Alone

There are no landscapes—there is only light. Poetic responses to the unique beauty of the Rio de Janeiro coast made using a 4x5 film camera.

What He Sees Who Is Perfectly Still

A reflection on the work of Russian photographer Emil Gataullin—beginning with his childhood in a small town beyond Moscow and running through his arresting, contemplative street photography.

Photography Today at National Geographic

A senior photo editor reveals what it takes to land an assignment for the iconic magazine—passion, dedication, research, a sense of history, an eye for poetry, and more.

Prom in Flint

As part of the all-encompassing documentary project “Flint is a Place,” a photographer travels to Flint, Michigan—home to a devastating water crisis—to focus on an important year-end celebration.

On Sale Now: The Best of LensCulture, Volume 1

Fresh, inspiring, insightful, thought-provoking: LensCulture is proud to present its first major book publication, which offers an overview and introduction to 160 of the most exciting contemporary photographers working today.

Löyly: Passage, Transit, Transition

Featuring bodies that are neither definitively masculine nor feminine, a series that explores suspended identities in the throes of transformation.

H-O-P-S-C-O-T-C-H

“Street photography is game for me—a game that takes our ordinary, daily lives as a canvas and offers a more elastic reality in which the familiar and the fantastic coexist....”

Maybe I’ll See You There

Seeking to present a “sincere” narrative of everyday life in Detroit—a city that has experienced dizzying ups and downs in the past 50 years—these photographs illuminate stories and neighborhoods that are slowly being swept out of sight.
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