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As legend has it, when gods roamed the earth, a few drops of eternity were lost in the Ganges... From January to March 2013, millions of Hindu pilgrims came to…
"A burning city. Thick smoke clouds fill the air with an intense smell. History always repeats itself: as at Nero’s times, a devastating fire run through the streets, through the…
6 portfolios. This is the selection by Agathe Gaillard, for her third week. Agathe Gaillard is one of the major figures of French photography. In 1975, with her husband, Jean-Philippe…
Zoos are born with intent informative to know and understand animal breeds otherwise unattainable. I wonder today what sense the life of an animal that is born, grows and dies…
Not once since I began writing this column have I felt as sad as I feel right now. What must be happening today so that newspapers I read—newspapers which supposedly…
August 28, 1963, marked a great day for democracy in America. On that day nearly fifty years ago, more than 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC,…
For its (henceforth) annual month devoted to photography, May, the Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo, Brazil, is offering a prestigious selection of work. All areas of the…
Photography records what we forget, offering a map back into the past into lives we would never otherwise know, if not for the camera to record their existence. We are…
It’s so rare, and because it’s so rare, it’s important. The magazine we’re reviewing this week left its impression on us. Saturdays Magazine, the name of a magnificent New York…