Since their construction in the mid-19th century, the imposing psychiatric hospitals across North America have occupied a unique place in the country’s architectural landscape. From 2002 to 2008, Christopher Payne…
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The Transfotografia opened in Poland on October 20. Created in 2006 by Olivier Spillebout, Director of the Transphotographiques Festival of Lille, this Polish Festival aims to display the works…
The Lady Dior series projects a sense of ambiguity and pending calamity. The images are framed in such a way that the viewer can only glimpse at the subjects in…
New York From the Yards documents a two-year escapade, from 1982 to 1984, along the railways of the American megalopolis. The Dutch photographer Peter Spaans invites the viewer to discover…
Any visitor to Arthur Drooker’s online portfolio can see that this American photographer only has eyes for ruins. For his latest work, Lost Worlds: Ruins of America, Drooker roamed the…
A new discovery from the remarkable Pathshala School, founded and run by Shahidul Alam, a school that makes Bangladesh one of the most notable places for documentary photography. This very…
In an early seminal experience for Malerie Marder, a family friend invited her to photograph her with her lover, naked in a hotel room. This set the tone for Marder’s…
I met Suzanne Opton in 2008 at FotoFest in Houston where she was presenting her series “Soldier. After several attempts, she found a squadron that would allow her to take…
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre first gained recognition for their remarkable book, The Ruins of Detroit. The company Eiffage Construction hired the photographers to document the of l’Hôtel-Dieu hospital, in…
In 1978, Jeanloup Sieff was at the height of his glory, especially among amateurs of his deep black and whites, incisive and contrasted, his Giacometti-like nudes they devoured in photography…