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A Photo Story: Into the Cold
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A Photo Story: Into the Cold

For over a century, Milwaukeeans have started their new year the hard way. André Saint Louis has spent the last four years documenting the chaos, the cold, and the characters who keep coming back.

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A Photo Story: What the North Asks of You
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A Photo Story: What the North Asks of You

There is a particular kind of photograph that does not reveal itself immediately. You make it, file it away, move on. Years pass. Then one day you return to it and something has changed, not in the image, but in you. Flora van Wageningen returned to her Faroe Islands photographs seven years after making them. In black and white, they told a different story.

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A Photo Story: Ten Days Ten Shadows
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A Photo Story: Ten Days Ten Shadows

Ten days. Ten images. One singular pursuit of light. This series explores the quiet drama of Mexico’s streets and the power of finding the "main character" within the shadows.

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A Photo Story: The Silent Pulse of Lisbon
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A Photo Story: The Silent Pulse of Lisbon

From the tech hubs of Porto to the historic cobblestones of Lisbon, Pedro Belo’s journey is one of "wandering and waiting." In this photo story he explores why he strips away the "distraction of color" to capture the pure, unscripted essence of Lisbon’s most iconic neighborhoods.

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A Photo Story: In the Light Again
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A Photo Story: In the Light Again

In a dim kitchen in Costa Rica, photographer Peter Westra captured a portrait that balances darkness and redemption. His subject a writer from Devon confined indoors by illness meets the viewer’s gaze with quiet defiance. Inspired by Richard Avedon’s Beekeeper, the image transforms pain into presence, shadow into grace. It’s a testament to endurance and the healing power of light.

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Photo Story: Portraits of Survival
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Photo Story: Portraits of Survival

In the heart of Africa, work is more than a means of survival it’s an act of identity. Through environmental portraiture, Portraits of Survival captures the quiet strength of those who transform necessity into purpose.

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