Erwin Recinos’ Earthlink series captures the soul of Southern California through vivid photographic postcards taken along the Metrolink rail system. Created for the Earth Day 2023 campaign “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Rides,” the series blends themes of sustainability, community, and urban identity. With a decade-long career documenting Los Angeles culture, Recinos offers a personal and timely vision of places that may soon be transformed by time and progress.
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Upon arriving in Cuba, you’re greeted by iconic classic American cars that seem to freeze time. Due to the U.S. embargo, Cubans have kept these vehicles running “one piece at a time,” creatively mixing parts from different years and models. This mechanical legacy has become a national treasure: from meticulously restored taxis for tourists to working cars with a unique patina that tells decades of makeshift repairs.
Douglas Stockdale’s Memory Pods reflects on aging, memory, and Alzheimer’s through semi-abstract photographs of Aloe Vera flowers and seed pods. The images mirror life’s progression from vibrant youth to the fading of memory offering a poetic meditation on the emotional and physical impact of dementia.
From June 7 to 22, 2025, New York City will host the 14th edition of Photoville, a free outdoor photography festival that transforms parks and public spaces into a vast, open-air gallery.
The United Nations has declared the border between the United States and Mexico to be the deadliest land crossing in the world and a humanitarian crisis. Thousands of men, women, and children have died crossing.
The Feminization of Aging refers to the phenomenon in which women make up a disproportionately large share of the elderly population worldwide. This is due to women’s longer life expectancy compared to men, as well as socio-economic, cultural, and health disparities that affect aging differently.
As time moves relentlessly forward, it leaves traces of the past subtle and profound etched into landscapes, objects, and human relationships. The images in this project form components of an ethereal tapestry that weaves together echoes of the past, outlines of memories, and whispers of dreams.
#MyWestSideStory is a testament to the enduring strength of Chicago's West Side, a visual diary that speaks to the soul of the community. Through the lens of my camera, I seek to capture not just the faces of the people, but the very essence of their lives their struggles, their triumphs, and their undeniable resilience.
My photography journey is driven by a desire to immerse the viewer in scenes that feel both haunting and hopeful where solitude becomes a gateway to transformation. Through a visual storytelling style rooted in melancholy, optimism, and immersion into the unknown, I aim to capture moments that resonate deeply within the human spirit.
In 2017, I retired from a career in independent school teaching and leadership to pursue photography full-time my true north since college. When I am not traveling, I split my time between street photography in New York City and rural projects in the Hudson Valley.
I have always loved dance and movement. As a child, I was constantly in motion, dancing to the Beatles or pretending to be a ballerina. Even when seemingly at rest, I "moved." I would lie on the living room couch, staring up at the cathedral ceiling, dreaming of the world upside down.
True North explores the profound experience of light within the natural landscape. Made during a residency in rural Finland in January 2015 the darkest time of the year, when the sun.
I have been a summer visitor to the island of Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Cape Cod, every year since 1986. My family and I stay in the town of Chilmark, on a dirt road overlooking a sheep farm with a view of the ocean.
Tony Dočekal’s series The Color of Money and Trees questions the pursuit of success and the value of the American Dream. Reflecting on universal themes of freedom, community, and purpose.
Displacement is a series that began in 2023 and proposes a reflection on the condition of refugees who have experienced forced displacement, being compelled to leave their homes, belongings, and country to start a new life elsewhere,
This body of work is a series of staged photographs featuring still life compositions with a female figure.
In the history of art, still life paintings have traditionally been characterized by the total absence of the human figure.
Discover the inspiring story of France Leclerc, an independent photographer who has transformed her passion for academia and travel into a unique form of visual storytelling.
For over six years, photographer Michele Zousmer was welcomed into the Irish Traveller community while she photographed, built friendships, and learned about this unique group of people.
Most people are more likely to use photographs to distract themselves from the deterioration and loss of people, objects, and situations that they hold dear. Reassembling images that remind me of my beneficial experiences challenges me and other viewers to recognize differences between photographs and memories.
The terrified nameless citizenry of 1950s and 60s B-movies, dressed in colorful outfits, are caught in horrified poses as they scream, flee, and try to shoot their way out of certain death from off-screen monsters looking to squash them: natural disasters, giant crickets, and alien landings.
The “Images Without Memory” series consists of works created with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and finalized in Photoshop. Its purpose is to establish a dialogue between the analog world of the daguerreotype and the realm of artificial creation, exploring how the perception of reality and fiction blurs over time.
Underpaid and overworked, Fast Food workers serve our food day in and day out while wearing conspicuous corporate uniforms, with all the conformity and anonymity associated with their low-status "McJobs."
Imagine two parallel roadways—one fast-paced superhighway, exciting and glamorous, the other a slower rural road, grounded in the realities of routine and simplicity. This juxtaposition forms the foundation of "Two Worlds," a photographic exploration of the transient and spontaneous dance between reality and reflection.
Photography transcends the boundaries of language; it is a universal mode of expression that resonates with individuals across all cultures. Each captured image has the ability to communicate emotions, narratives, and the very essence of human experience.
In my dream I walk through the rooms that feel familiar and strange at the same time and enter through a door into another room full of shuttered windows. I open the shutters and see that the house is surrounded by the stillness of the sea.
The following interview provides an intimate look into the creative world of visual artist and photographer Leanne Trivett S. Her early training in musical theatre and her professional experience as a singer and stage performer lend a unique perspective to her visual work, where narrative, gesture, and emotion intertwine with the photographic composition.
Mark Zilberman’s photography journey began when he was 6 years old. His first experience with photography happened during a trip with his mother and brother to Washington DC to see the Japanese Cherry Trees in bloom. As they walked past a drugstore window, he saw a bright yellow box and said he wanted it.
Today, we are pleased to introduce Mark Zilberman, a photographer whose passion ignited at the age of six when he acquired a Kodak Instamatic 104 during a family trip to Washington, D.C. Largely self-taught, he enhanced his skills at Arizona State University and by assisting renowned photographers in New York.
In the latest print edition of our magazine, we had the honor of featuring the work of the talented photographer Douglas Burgdorff. Surprised that he hasn't succumbed to his most daring photographic adventures, Douglas has traveled the world capturing images that blend beauty and danger, sincerity and insincerity, artifice and natural splendor.
I became fascinated with Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” as a teenager. His limitless imagination and intricately detailed images captured my mind. I put these details center stage, using models, wardrobe, special prosthetics and specially-built props to create photographic facsimiles of Bosch’s original paintings.
This project is composed of coffee-stained cyanotypes, one of the first photographic processes developed in the mid-19th century. Its principal active ingredient is iron salts, evoking the area known as the 'Iron Triangle', where the imagery for this work was taken.
Captured in the bustling environment of New York City’s subway system, these photographs embody symbolic representations of our nightmares and the hidden fears that often linger beneath the surface of our consciousness.
Fauxliage documents the proliferation of disguised cell phone towers in the American West. By attempting to conceal an unsightly yet essential technology of the modern world, our landscapes are now sown with a quirky and unsettling mosaic of masquerading palms, evergreens, flagpoles, crosses, cacti, and more.
After the Fire: Water Damaged, explores photographs as memory by examining the shape-shifting potential of altered images. As a result of a fire above my studio, water impacted my negatives destroying a third of my archive.
Since our founding, America’s identity and character have been grounded in the idea that we are a “nation of immigrants.” It is precisely our diversity and multiculturalism that make our nation unique. People from every corner of the world come here to build a better life for themselves and, in the process, they make invaluable contributions to our cultural, scientific and economic vitality.
John Kayacan discovered his passion for photography during his teenage years. At just 14, he began experimenting with his parents’ camera, capturing anything that caught his eye.
Memories of Dust is a long-term project documenting traditional masculinity in my home state of Texas. I examine the cowboy, a classic male icon shaped by visual media, and its influence in society today.
The Red Purse tells a story of transition, of rebuilding. The project grew from a journey, my journey, of navigating through—and beyond-- the darkness and uncertainty of young widowhood.
The MassArt x SoWa gallery in Boston's vibrant South End presents "Border(less)", an exhibition that addresses the complex and urgent issue of global migration. Inspired by alarming statistics and recent events that have reshaped the world, this showcase explores the experiences of individuals forced to leave their homes and navigate the challenges of assimilation and adaptation in new territories.
Merging documentary-like and conceptual styles, the series ‘It’s all in your head’ provides a unique perspective and imaginative exploration of a mental space. Based on my own experience with mental illness, I wanted to explore the idea of capturing a mental space and how it manifests both physically and in one’s mind.
In fairy tales, shoes are imbued with enchanted powers: they save, they transport, and they contain their heroes and heroines. They have long been symbolic, representing aspirations, transformation, and the search for one's place in the world.
Composition. It’s an inherent and integral aspect of the two-dimensional arts. In most art forms, composition is created by the artist. In photography, limited to using the visible world as its palette, 1 that composition must be discovered. The joy of that discovery, of finding beauty in juxtaposition within the frame, is what drives me as an artist.
La Semana Santa (Holy Week) is the annual Catholic commemoration of the Passion of Christ, which takes place the week before Easter. In Guatemala, where Spanish missionaries initiated this celebration during colonial times, it is now one of the most important weeks of the year in Antigua, a view validated by UNESCO who added it to its Cultural Heritage list in 2022.
Photographers, historically, have focused on two aspects of the street as subject: the socio-political character of human interactions and the occasions for expressive gesture. Great as these traditions are, I found they left out significant aspects of our actual perceptual experience of the street — its locations and people.
After a career in clinical psychology and university teaching, I began photography late in life. (one-month shy of my 70th birthday). I always owned a camera before this time but rarely used it. In 2008 I started photography courses at The International Center of Photography in NYC and never stopped until ten years later.
Donna Bassin is a photo-based artist, filmmaker, trauma psychologist, professor, and published author who was born in Brooklyn and now living in New Jersey. The death of her younger sister when she was ten years old and her family’s difficulty mourning have motivated and shaped her clinical and art practices.
Fred Brashear is a photo-based artist from Southern California focusing on the relationship between humans and the natural environment. His work, "While the Stars Look Down," photographically captures the otherworldly essence of the desert landscape at night, emphasizing the unique qualities of the Mojave Desert and showcasing the Joshua tree in a mysterious manner through the interplay of color, time, and light.
A city girl and skeptic to my core, I feel an overwhelming sense of awe in the face of the spread of a desert or the ocean. Within these landscapes, humanity seems small and insignificant. Geologic eras are etched into layers of rock. Our time on earth seems short in contrast.
