Personal Kill
In training centers around the world, American soldiers are taught to kill at close range—a “personal kill.” Pictures of the places where soldiers practice, and a discussion of the US military’s increasing reliance on machines.
Galleries
A collection of 422 issues
The Origin of New Species
Inspired by folk tales, mythical beasts, and Portuguese azulejos, an artist paints her own version of natural history.
Soliloquies
Sometimes beauty appears only for a short instant, as a flash of visual energy. It’s the photographer’s job to wait, observe, and then pounce.
The Artist Is Mother of the Woman
Many painters depict themselves, but few work exclusively in the genre of self-portraiture. Selections from Haley Hasler’s body of work—the artist in costumes of everyday life.
City of Brotherly Love
Portraits of men in Philadelphia taken just moments after they catcall a woman on the street.
Life Among Rebels
Pictures from a photojournalist embedded with a Free Syrian Army militia in Aleppo, the country’s largest city, now torn apart by war.
Love in the Kingdom of the Sick
When an artist receives a heart transplant, his drawings of the procedure acquire all the gravity of a fever dream—intensely realistic, with hallucinations of the dead.
Women of the Future
One woman powers herself with a solar panel. Another wears a neon sign in her Afro. In the future as in the past, identity is never one-dimensional.
House Music
When a photographer reviews 35 years of unposed family pictures—unexpected moments, children growing older—a symphony appears.
Somewhere In-Between
Multi-layered photographs show people’s inner lives merging with their environments—suggesting that what we see of reality is less than what actually exists.