I had the great pleasure of meeting Billy Hickey at the ICP Virtual Portfolio Reviews in 2020. During the reviews, he shared a personal project, How We Were, born of events created by the pandemic when he returned home to Massachusetts for an appointment
We’re back after a long COVID hiatus. We’re kicking off a new season with Benjamin Chesterton, @duckrabbitblog on Twitter, and his open letter to Magnum concerning years of photographing child abuse and other controversies surrounding the iconic photo agency. Trigger Warning: sexual assault, child abuse. This is a harrowing episode. Read his letter to Magnum here. The Statement with over 600 signatures calling on Magnum Photos to demonstrate accountability can be read here.
The Magnum photographer’s latest book, Found Not Lost, takes a deep dive into his photographic archive, revealing a new body of work for the first time.
During the 2020 pandemic, when life was out of our control, restricted and confined, when we had to cope with shifted realities, many photographic artists found whole new ways to create work. We mined our personal lives, walked empty streets and photographed our cities and towns when they were silent, we watched the light move
This week The States Project focuses on Rhode Island, a small but mighty bastion of photography, home to a host of significant photographers and well regarded institutions. Our penultimate States Project is curated by photographer Brian Ulrich, a major fo
Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend last year’s historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests
Barry Lewis discusses his new book, which brings together some of the photographer’s more quietly powerful images from 1975 to 2005 to celebrate the richness of a shared culture.
In eastern Serbia, belief in a world of magic is still very much alive. Equipped with his M Typ 240, Joan Alvado set off in search of traces of Muma Paduri – the Mother of the Woods.
Susan Goldberg has been editor in chief at National Geographic for seven years. In the history of Nat Geo, which started in 1888, she is the 10th editor
Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley return to their home region of the Ozarks in the American Midwest, where locals persist in their search for a legendar…
For over thirty years, photographer Antoine Agoudjian has been driven by a single obsession: to document the Armenian narrative, from the ghosts of the past to the conflicts of today.
“I’m from a small town in Northern Finland surrounded by a vast, sparsely populated wilderness,” explains Maria Lax. “Most pass through the town on th…
These classic photographs from contemporary, rural Cuba, document a disappearing way of life, pieced together through the everyday rhythms of the campesino people