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Taking inspiration from Dutch vanitas paintings, photographer Justine Reyes creates still lifes from contemporary objects, getting the composition, textures, and colors so precisely “right,” it’s a wonder we’re not seeing some 17th-century Flemish take on contemporary life.
Nicole Pasulka and photographer Linda Jaquez visit the St. Bernard Project in New Orleans, and find a neighborhood once devastated by Katrina, now reinvigorated.
With an incredibly detailed eye for life in the 1950s and ‘60s, Erwin Olaf’s photographs offer much more than what’s seen at first glance.
Ryan Schneider’s work is preoccupied with narrative. Color, texture, and natural imagery become language and through it he records small moments of connection and alienation.
Three years ago, Daniela Edburg’s highly stylized photos of women dead from consumption of sweets and snack foods brought humor to classic portraiture and film noir.
At a Louisiana prison best known for controversial rodeos and keeping the Angola 3 in solitary confinement for more than 29 years, there’s a glimmer of hope and humanity: a hospice where inmate volunteers provide end-of-life care for dying prisoners.
Like estate sales or cat burglary, Peter Ross’s photographs of William Burroughs’s possessions provide a glimpse into the material world of someone we thought we knew.
Andy Freeberg’s photos of the women who oversee Russian art museums and the front-desk attendants in Chelsea galleries turn context and background into art.
Last year we featured Richard Mosse’s photographs of airport disaster simulations in a gallery that stoked both fear and fascination. In these new photos by Mosse, the wreckage of celebrated machines and technologies is slowly being absorbed by the natural world.
Physical contact between strangers is one of society’s great taboos. Photographer Alana Riley breaks that barrier by asking friends and strangers to cede their personal space both in their workplace and in her studio.
Brian Ulrich’s photographs of closed-down malls and big-box retail stores reveal the potential ghost towns lying inside successful shopping complexes all across America.
Scott Hunt’s drawings take inspiration from mysterious, uncomfortable, hilarious, and sad moments in amateur photography and give them new life.