BY: DITA PEPE Czech Photographer Dita Pepe was fascinated with “what could have been?”, and applying the question literally, she began to re-imagine a hundred different versions her life. In Self Portraits with Men, Pepe becomes a seamless member of…
As the Greenland ice sheet melts, so does Greenland’s culture. (PHOTOS)
BY: SEBASTIEN TIXIER When Sébastien Tixier travelled from 67 ° to the 77th parallel north to record the transformations, he found his fantasy cliché images of white landscapes dissolve before his eyes. Things are not always as we expect them…
Photography of Tokyo in motion shows us the terrifying speed of modern life
BY: MATTHEW PILLSBURY Photographer Matthew Pillsbury dropped his tripod amidst the torrents of Tokyo’s cosmopolitan daily life. He created exposures to record up to 15 minutes of activity. He chose Tokyo because of the city’s astounding technological advances. The Japanese…
These Polaroid portraits of Kenyans will make you reconsider your self-entitlement to technology (PHOTOS)
BY: KAILEE MANDEL I took a trip to Kenya to photograph the wildlife with my family and we were told to bring presents for the children. I did not want to bring the typical candy or toys; I wanted to…
This photographer tracks the change of her naked body through the journey of motherhood
BY: POLLY PENROSE Over several years, Polly Penrose created a series of photographs entitled A Body of Work showing the physical journey of her body over time. Each portrait is a reaction of her naked body to its environment and…
Is this 55-year old homeless fashionista more stylish than you? (PHOTOS)
BY: YURKO DYACHYSHYN Collected from city trash bins and homeless aid centres, Slavik changes his clothes at least once every day. With each shift in wardrobe, Slavik restyles his beard and hair, always remembering to shave his armpits. In this…
These Photographs Will Challenge Your Perception of The Israel-Palestine Binary
BY: KEN CENDO Ken Cendo shows the Israel-Palestine conflict with humility by depicting the daily lives of both sides of the conflict. Despite the media binary, these photos remind us of the familiar humanness that is constant on both sides…
What Does America Look Like Through The Eyes Of A Tourist? These Photos Will Make You Understand
BY: RON GESSEL Streets overwhelmed by advertisements, shopping malls and fast food, celebrity obsession and hypersexualized imagery—is this really the America that tourists bear witness to? Caught in the normalized state of society, we often do not take a moment to…
“The Mountain That Eats Man”: The Child Miners of Bolivia
BY: JONAS WRESCH The sun begins to rise and a silver light begins to illuminate the terracotta rooftops of the city of Potosi, Bolivia. It is 5 a.m. Thousands of men, women and children make their way up narrow roads…
Country Fictions: Maybe There Was Once A Countryside
BY: JUAN ABALLE In the rural corners of the Iberian Peninsula, Juan Aballe shows a vision of the serene country road that exists within everyone’s imagination. Forever bathed in morning sunlight, conscious breath is the only pulse by which time…
From behind bars to behind the needle: Portraits of Mexican criminals turned tattoo artists.
BY: JONATHAN MAY Riddled with bullet holes, cocaine hangovers, and wrinkle inducing prison sentences, a past life is not always a destiny foretold. Out of the furnace and onto the black tarmac ascended eight Mexican tattoo artists who united together…
Between cashing oil sands paycheques and traditional hunting, Fort McKay is sleeping with the devil
BY: CONNOR BRIAN The first thing I noticed was the heavy taste of sulphur on my tongue. As the twin-engine plane jerked up and down, my eyes ranged across the black vastness of the Athabasca Oil Sands, and I thought…
The General of Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising: Beyond western portrayals of a broken Africa
BY: MARY BETH KOETH Among the most fertile land in Kenya lives a 92-year old man named Japhlet Thambu, whose tea farmhouse doors face towards the sacred Mount Kenya. Among these hills he is known as “The General” and from…
Aerial photos of civilization give a new perspective on “progress”
BY: BERNHARD LANG When viewed from above, the human scale seems almost artificial. Like little miniature figurines we seem almost ignorant of the size our own existence. The Aerial Views of Bernhard Lang are proof that human beings are smaller…
The daily routine of a “Ladyboy” in Thailand (PHOTOS)
BY: SOOPAKORN SRISAKUL There is a third gender, and in Thailand it is called “Kathoey”. It loosely translates as “Ladyboy”, the main difference between transgender women being that although Ladyboys often undergo “feminizing” medical procedures such as breast implants, silicone…
These photos of Africans with mental illness show a disturbing assault on human dignity
BY: ROBIN HAMMOND Locked in tin shacks and chained to rusty hospital beds, Africans with mental illness have been abandoned by their government, neglected by foreign aid advocates, and persecuted by their society. Mental health professionals have fled South Sudan…
There is something beautiful about bare skin and the wilderness (PHOTOS)
BY: MARYANNE GOBBLE The photography of Maryanne Gobble reveals humankind’s deepest and overwhelming connection to the earth. Her subjects seem to be shaped by the rugged palms of the South Oregon landscape. Stripped down to bare skin, we return to a…