Leigh Merrill makes photographs and composite images of vacant urban spaces with a keen eye for architecture, infrastructure and color. In both projects This Place, and Cinder Blocks and Cherry Blossoms, Merrill calls attention to details not often notice
In 1995, Annett Gröschner and Arwed Messmer gained access to photographs of the Berlin Wall thanks to the Intermediary Military Archives in Potsdam. At the time of the division, the city was located in the GDR. In an archival box, the two artists discovered a large number of 35mm rolls of film taken by East-German soldiers in 1966 as the wall, which would stand for the next fifty years, was being erected. The artists were fascinated by these photos—as we are—because these are images, previously unseen by Westerners, not only of the wall, but also of the watchtowers, the barbed wire, and the guards.
The residents of Marktown, a historic district ringed by industrial behemoths in East Chicago, Ind., are trying to stay put, relying on each other in the face of change.
In 1985, a teenage girl in Orange County ran away from home. She stayed away for one night and came back to her mother, who gave her a camera “as a coming home present.” Thirty years later, that young woman has grown to become photographer Deanna Templeto
Since the first democratic elections in 1994, there has been a strong increase in immigration – people making their way across the border into South Africa. War, famine and poverty in Africa make South Africa an attractive option for a better life.
Loulou d’AkiMake a Wish[ EPF 2016 FINALIST ]”This is just a dream, but fortunately dreams do come true.” Cyrus P., 15, Tehran, Iran It’s a rainy November morning in Gaza and…
One of the things that really spoils live concerts these days is that half the people there don’t seem to want to watch it live at all – they’d rather watch it through their phone screen, holding the device up and blocking the view of those behind them. T
About a year ago, Levi Bettwieser of the Rescued Film Project won about 20 auctions for the undeveloped work of a 1950s photographer. What he received was
American photographer McNair Evans (born 1979) shares some background to In Search of Great Men, a beautiful series of portraits of passengers riding on USA’s long-distance trains
I put my cameras down in 2014, after covering the war in Gaza. I’d spent a month photographing entire neighborhoods leveled by the Israeli offensive, and the shattered bodies of countless men, women and children blown apart by bombs.
During the four days the following membership motions were executed:
• Bieke Depoorter was made a Magnum Member
• Jérôme Sessini was made a Magnum Member
• Diana Markosian was made a Magnum Nominee
• Matt Stuart was made a Magnum Nominee