Portfolio: Patrick Brown's "Trading to Extinction"
An ambitious project tells the global story of poaching, with humans at the center
Portfolio: Patrick Brown's "Trading to Extinction"
An ambitious project tells the global story of poaching, with humans at the center
If All Else Fails, Make Them Jump
We go in-depth with Neal Preston, the most assigned photographer in People magazine’s history
The Jet as Art
Jeffrey Milstein's hyper-detailed formal studies of jets in flight find a good home at the Smithsonian
Taryn Simon, Tracing Bloodlines
Working within a rigid, self-imposed documentary system in a project currently up at the MoMA, Taryn Simon finds the very human stories often hidden in the margins
Photojournalism of the Week: May 11
A homemade mini-sub, a two-day-old baby elephant and Vladimir Putin’s grand entrance
Life Off the Grid
Lucas Foglia's book A Natural Order looks at Americans who have chosen to live off the land
We'd Like to Have You For Dinner
What do you say when a cannibal leader makes you an offer you can’t refuse?
Girls in Pink, Boys in Blue
JeongMee Yoon's "The Pink & Blue Project" looks at the association of color with gender
Street Illegal
Hank O’Neal’s XCIA street art project spans four decades of dazzling—mostly illicit—street art
Master Manipulators
Five visionaries pushing photo manipulation to brilliant extremes
Intimate Portraits of War
A major showing of the late photojournalist Tim Hetherington's work opens in New York
Behind the Notes: Bjørn Wad's Smoking Granny
How this photo from Norway amassed 20,000 notes and counting, posted from America Photo's very own Tumblr
Finding "Real Rural" in California
Lisa Hamilton's photography-based multimedia project explores and celebrates the state's rich rural communities
28 Pictures, All In Pink
Ye Rin Mok takes an interesting approach to editing, showing us photos that all share a common color
Adamant Eve
Photojournalist Eve Arnold, who passed away in January, never met a boundary she didn't smash
Naked Before the Camera
A new show at NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art chronicles the history of the photograhic nude
Surf Riot
Nick Waplington's photos from a 1986 beachside riot come to life, 25 years later
Fresh Hair For Tumblr Success
Chris Dorley-Brown goes "Behind the Notes" on his recent viral hit, fresh from the 1980s
Photojournalism of the Week: May 18, 2012
Our weekly round-up of the world’s most powerful, breathtaking and at times down-right dangerous photojournalism
Behind the Notes: Marlies Plank's Woman in the Painting
A look at how and why a young Austrian photographer's image has become popular on Tumblr
Taryn Simon, Tracing Bloodlines at MoMA
Working within a rigid, self-imposed documentary system, Simon finds the very human stories often hidden in the margins
Life Off the Grid
Lucas Foglia's book A Natural Order looks at Americans who have chosen to live off the land
Photojournalism of the Week: May 4, 2012
The week's most compelling and visually-arresting news images
Girls and Boys With Their Color-Coded Things
JeongMee Yoon's "The Pink & Blue Project" looks at the association of color with gender
When A Picture's Worth About 15 Words
Two web-based projects are playing with the idea of "translating" between images and words
On the Wall: Nick Veasey's "From Rocks and Reefs..."
An exhibition in California recalls the cyanotype process and one of its first pioneers
Behind the Notes: Nicolas Poillot's "Mister Lonely"
A photograph taken in a Belgian wasteland goes viral—even though it was uploaded by accident
One Woman's Entire Facebook Network, Photographed
Tanja Alexia Hollander explores the nature of 21st-century friendship in her ambitious project Are You Really My Friend?
Corey Arnold's Photographs Find a Natural Home Outdoors in Belgium
Large-scale reproductions of last year's "Fish-Work" have been mounted in a Belgian city as part of a photography festival
A Warm Look at Taiwan
New York-based photographer I-Hsuen Chen finds quiet moments of beauty in his series "Nowhere in Taiwan"
On the Wall: Painters Picking Up Cameras
Chuck Close, Frida Kahlo and Lyonel Feininger—all most famous for paintings—have photographic works on display this month
Turning Turtles Into Cameras With Onorato & Krebs
Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs have created some of the strangest cameras you may ever see. It's all part of their irreverent take on photography's conventions in As Long As It Photographs, It Must Be a Camera
On the Wall: Naked Before the Camera
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art chronicles the history of the photographic nude