India’s showpiece township, Rajarhat was developed in the twilight years of communist rule in West Bengal. Billed by most as the face of a resurgent Bengal, the township is actually…
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Who said the body is a finished thing? Is it not bone, flesh, and skin making up a head, a torso, arms and legs? Under certain gazes, it loses its humanity…
I'm Jürgen Bürgin, 40 years, from Berlin, Germany. With "Urban Ballads" I'm telling stories, short instances of life in the big cities of our world. All are street photographs from…
Ten years after the fall of the Twin Towers, my gaze turned toward the incredible silent organization that exists in Chinese society, the largest in the world. If the ubiquitous…
These photographs were taken against the vast mountain scenery. In them I reveal my link to nature, questioning man’s presence in this landscape and our relationship to the world and…
This series, Colorfield, takes its inspiration from the works of Rothko. In began with a contemplative, observational meditation on nature. Then, by playing with photography’s visual techniques, the balance and…
Mazaccio & Drowilal met in 2006 and felt an immediate kinship. Influenced by conceptual art, cinema, and Japanese and American photography, they developed a critical eye in the privacy of…
The line between urban and suburban -- a mix of aging strip malls, modest bungalows, ubiquitous gas stations, and solitary pedestrians -- has been the focus of my recent photographic…