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John Mahoney is a writer and web designer living in New York City. He is the web editor for American Photo magazine. You can email him here, and on Twitter he is @mahon_e.

Documenting Quiet, Deadly Hardship in Sierra Leone

Mustafah Abdulaziz's series "Water Is Gold" takes us to a place where access to clean water is a matter of life and death

A Fresh Look At…Trees?

Mitch Epstein's New York Arbor is a quiet, thrilling black and white typology of New York's diverse foliage

Meanwhile, In Space: A Hurricane On Saturn

Who sees it better? Human or spacecraft?

Go Where It's Hard To Shoot (That's Where The Pulitzers Are)

The 2013 Pulitzer Prizes for news and feature photography were both awarded to images from Syria's brutal civil war—images the Syrian regime did everyting in its power to suppress. 

Museums Are Still Wringing Their Hands Over Photography's Importance

Even in 2013, photography's place among the "fine arts" continues to be a topic of discussion—but why?