• DERAILED

    In July 2022 Dustin Mullin stopped in Green River Utah to buy groceries. The grocery store was immaculate. Fully stocked. Carefully maintained. In a town where businesses had been closing for decades someone still cared deeply enough to keep the shelves full. That detail stayed with him for four years. When he came back with a camera he had one question. What keeps people here when everything else seems to have moved on.

    Photographs by Dustin Mullin

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  • CUBA 25 YEARS AGO

    Twenty five years ago, Eduardo Cerda Sanchez boarded a plane to Cuba. He was not going as a photographer with a project. He was going as a student, with a camera, three months, and no agenda. Cuba, it turns out, does not need a photographer with a project. It just needs one willing to show up.

    Photographs by Eduardo Cerda Sanchez

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  • THE UNEVENTFUL CITY

    Remon Diaz is a deaf photographer based in Miami who has spent years developing a visual grammar he calls The Decisive Metaphor. His latest analog project, The Uneventful City, is a study of the structural solitude that exists inside urban life when you strip away the noise. Literally and figuratively.

    Photographs by Remon Diaz

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  • THE ISLAND THAT TAUGHT ME TO SEE PEOPLE

    David Clark retired three years ago and bought his first serious camera. Since then he has been making up for lost time. A week in Havana on a portrait workshop led by legendary photographer Peter Turnley changed how he thinks about photographing people.

    Photographs by David Clark

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  • 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.

    Photographs by André Saint Louis

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A Photo Story: Derailed
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A Photo Story: Derailed

In July 2022 Dustin Mullin stopped in Green River Utah to buy groceries. The grocery store was immaculate. Fully stocked. Carefully maintained. In a town where businesses had been closing for decades someone still cared deeply enough to keep the shelves full. That detail stayed with him for four years. When he came back with a camera he had one question. What keeps people here when everything else seems to have moved on.

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A Photo Story: The Uneventful City
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A Photo Story: The Uneventful City

Remon Diaz is a deaf photographer based in Miami who has spent years developing a visual grammar he calls The Decisive Metaphor. His latest analog project, The Uneventful City, is a study of the structural solitude that exists inside urban life when you strip away the noise. Literally and figuratively.

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A Photo Story: While I'm Working
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A Photo Story: While I'm Working

Every working photographer has a hard drive full of images that did not fit the brief. Ben Lumley decided to do something about it. Photos While I'm Working is the series he built from a decade of moments nobody commissioned and nobody asked for. It might be his most honest work.

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A Photo Story: The Island That Taught Me to See People
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A Photo Story: The Island That Taught Me to See People

David Clark retired three years ago and bought his first serious camera. Since then he has been making up for lost time. A week in Havana on a portrait workshop led by legendary photographer Peter Turnley changed how he thinks about photographing people. Here is the story.

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A Photo Story: The Block
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A Photo Story: The Block

For the past several months Joe Moro has been returning two or three times a week to the same corner in Melbourne. The same stretch of footpath. The same light. The same cast of strangers who are slowly becoming familiar. This is what it looks like when a photographer decides to go deep instead of wide.

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A Photo Story: Dancing With Bears
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A Photo Story: Dancing With Bears

Every December in the Moldavian region of Romania, men wrap themselves in real bear skins and march through the streets to the sound of drums. Armin traveled from Germany to document it. He did not expect to find himself there too.

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A Photo Story: Built on Ashes
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A Photo Story: Built on Ashes

Oxford, Mississippi is a town in the middle of remaking itself. Dason Pettit has spent years watching it happen, and somewhere along the way realized the project was also about him.

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A Photo Story: Cuba 25 Years Ago
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A Photo Story: Cuba 25 Years Ago

Twenty five years ago, Eduardo Cerda Sanchez boarded a plane to Cuba. He was not going as a photographer with a project. He was going as a student, with a camera, three months, and no agenda. Cuba, it turns out, does not need a photographer with a project. It just needs one willing to show up.

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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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