The Alexia Foundation has announced the winners of its 2013 grants. A sharp and diverse selection. The professional grant of $15,000 was awarded to Bangladeshi photographer Abir Abdullah for his…
Author Laurence Cornet
Abir Abdullah has worked on the endless fires that devastate Dhaka and its population. Safety measure are so inadequate that flames engulf the city with terrifying speed. The working…
This reportage work of Sara Naomi Lewkowicz is a combination of chance and journalistic conviction. Planning to cover the return of former inmates to society, she entered the lives…
The Steven Kasher gallery is presenting a selection from the Bruce Berman collection, and has transformed its severe walls into a more intimate space for the occasion. The display is…
The book opens with a photograph of a crashed glider sticking vertically out of a field, with about fifty people looking agape behind the two long wings that hold…
In Turkey, when economic boom and newfound international appeal came without warning, the country was faced with the sudden challenge of adapting its architectural and social structures.George Georgiou traveled through…
Although this exhibition is not strictly photographic, with paintings and videos also on display, it nevertheless offers a wide range of images, reminding viewers of the medium’s close ties to…
The student art studios photographed by Leonora Hamill run counter to the strain of individualism permeating the contemporary art world. Hamill destroys the myth of the artist-hero working in isolation,…
You would expect photographs about corruption to involve the mafia, power games, violence and opulence. But Misha Friedman’s photographs are calm, quiet: landscapes at night, street scenes, empty rooms, bare…
J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is a seminal work about adolescence. The narrator, Holden Caulfield, plagued with doubts about adulthood, takes refuge in dreamlike conversations with his little…