Though urbanites and smug “East-Coasters” often forget, the American wilderness is breathtaking. These photos reveal the natural beauty in the country's western hills, valleys, mountains, and streams—but the wild, untamed vistas of the West are more than picturesque, they’re also historical records.
Stephanie Congdon Barnes and Maria Alexandra Vettese document a year’s daily exchange of photos—one picture taken each morning and swapped by email.
Syrian painter Sabhan Adam’s work brings us face-to-face with creatures that might have crawled or hopped or slithered out of our dreams and onto the couch.
In 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein announced that he wanted to take free portraits of everyone in Oxford, Iowa (pop. 673). Twenty-one years later, he went back.
Say your family isn’t very good about keeping photo albums—why not create your own? Rafael Goldchain transforms himself into his ancestors to understand them better.
Hope Gangloff has expanded her palette. This is big news if you’ve loved her illustrations and paintings as they’ve popped up, black and white and red all over (plus some blue).
Brittny Badger’s series of disassembled appliances is a delight: a study in how the inner materials of, for example, an ordinary coffee maker can become abstract art.
Forecast is the latest in Nicholas Blechman’s “Nozone” series. It’s a bit like an issue of the Economist, but authored by some of today’s best cartoonists and graphic designers.
Dutch artist Hans Eijkelboom picks out the minuscule ways people in three big cities all resemble one another, then pulls them together in tapestries of logos and patterns, looks and costumes.
Turning the world upside down can be as easy as going for a swim. Using a waterproof camera and watching the tide instead of the viewfinder, Asako Narahashi shows Japan’s coastal areas as seen from the sea.
