Kids Are People Too (9 Photos)
© Hiroshi Watanabe. Above: Marina Ema & Kazusa Ito, Matsuo Kabuki, 2003. 10×10 inch gelatin silver print. Panopticon Gallery‘s newest exhibition, Kids Are People Too, celebrates children in...
View ArticleAfternoon with Octavio
© Tom Chambers “Afternoon With Octavio” (2010) is part of Tom Chambers’s “Dreaming in Reverse” series which is currently on view at Photo-Eye Gallery in Santa Fe. Chambers created this photomontage...
View ArticleSeeds and Seedlings (4 Photos)
All images © Brian Steege / ETC Creative Photographer Brian Steege spent the day photographing the Seed family to create this intimate series of images. Moments of innocence and whimsy are infused...
View ArticleGreater Than The Sum
All photos © LUCEO. On Friday, January 13th, from 6-10PM the LUCEO cooperative is hosting their third annual exhibition at 25CPW in New York City. Titled “Greater Than The Sum”, the exhibition...
View ArticleTeenie Harris’s World (8 Photos)
"Girl reading comic book in newsstand" by Teenie Harris (c. 1940-1945) © 2006 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh For over 40 years Charles “Teenie” Harris documented life in and around Pittsburgh’s...
View ArticleZoe Strauss: 10 Years (3 Photos)
"Daddy Tattoo, Philadelphia," 2004 © Zoe Strauss/Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art Photographer Zoe Strauss, who from 2001 to 2010 installed her work on pillars below an I-95 overpass in South...
View ArticleManning Up for Women (10 Photos)
© Stephen Ferry. Untitled, November 2003 (Kogui village of Chivilongui) Through Our Lens: Photographers Reflect on Empowerment is a photography exhibition at 25CPW Gallery benefiting the Man Up...
View ArticleSwimming in the American Dream (10 Photos)
Herb Ritts, Richard Gere – Poolside, 1982, C-type print, Courtesy of the Herb Ritts Foundation, Los Angeles © Herb Ritts Foundation Southern California’s swimming pool culture is the subject of a new...
View Article“Say Uncle”
© Emmet and Edith Gowin. Courtesy Etherton Gallery Emmet Gowin’s “Nancy and Dwayne, Danville, Virginia,” 1970, seems at first like the camera’s casual glance at an intimate family scene: Gowin’s niece...
View ArticleThe Lonely Doll (3 Photos)
All photos © Estate of Dare Wright/Courtesy Fred Torres Collaborations The peculiar, haunting photos Dare Wright created to illustrate her 1957 children’s book, The Lonely Doll, have attracted fans...
View ArticleRalph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks (7 Photos)
“Untitled,” 1960s. © The Estate of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Ralph Eugene Meatyard is best known for the eerie, masked portraits in his photo book The Family...
View ArticleCelebrating Gordon Parks (10 Images)
Gordon Parks, “Emerging Man, Harlem, 1952.” Gelatin silver print. © The Gordon Parks Foundation. Collection of the International Center of Photography. As the first black staff photographer at Life...
View ArticleKeith Carter’s Magic (3 Photos)
All photos © Keith Carter. Throughout his career, photographer Keith Carter has created images that evoke dreams, memory and the sense of wonder we felt in childhood. “At least in my mind, they’ve all...
View ArticleChild Brides (2 Photos)
Tahani, 8, and her husband, Majed, 27, standing outside their home in Hajjah, Yemen, along with Tahani’s former classmate Ghada, 8, and her husband. © Stephanie Sinclair/VII According to a recent...
View ArticleSailboats and Swans (10 Photos)
Lena (left), sentenced for organizing a rape, and Katya, sentenced for theft. Juvenile prison for girls, Ukraine, 2009. © Michal Chelbin Michal Chelbin‘s book Sailboats and Swans was recently...
View ArticleLittle American Dream House
© Andrew Phelps, “untitled” from the series Haboob, 2011. “Haboob” is photographer Andrew Phelps’ follow-up project to his 2008 series “Higley.” Once a small rural town in Arizona, Higley was finally...
View ArticleThe Mississippi Delta (10 Photos)
All photos © Magdalena Solé Documentary photographer Magdalena Solé spent a year living in the Mississippi Delta, photographing the people and places that make this area in the Southern United States...
View ArticleA Painted Smile (5 images)
All images © Steven Laxton Steven Laxton’s portrait series, “Circo El Salvador,” documents nomadic circus families of El Salvador who perform in rural and impoverished areas of Central America. This...
View ArticleFacing a History of Violence (9 Photos)
All images © Sarah Fretwell Sarah Fretwell’s photographs may be beautiful to look at, but the truths they reveal are not easy to digest. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one woman (or child)...
View ArticleColor My World (5 Photos)
All Images © Adrien Broom The inspiration, for Adrien Broom‘s The Color Project, ironically, came from a lack of color. “I was at a friend’s house who was repainting a bedroom, and the only thing...
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