When it comes to Los Angeles, Estevan Oriol has seen it all. The photographer, director, fashion label head, and entrepreneur was there when DIY punk rock and new wave culture spread throughout the southland in the ‘80s. He was there during hip-hop’s rise from a niche hood sub-genre to a global dominating force. He watched […]
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Before joining Vance’s office, Magid worked for Beck & Stone, a brand consultancy group whose clients include secret societies, “counter-revolutionary” magazines, and think tanks. The firm also has close connections to the Claremont Institute, an openly anti-democracy think tank that is also filled with Vance allies. Beck & Stone is led by Austin Stone and […]
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Before joining Vance’s office, Magid worked for Beck & Stone, a brand consultancy group whose clients include secret societies, “counter-revolutionary” magazines, and think tanks. The firm also has close connections to the Claremont Institute, an openly anti-democracy think tank that is also filled with Vance allies. Beck & Stone is led by Austin Stone and […]
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If last month’s Republican National Convention was akin to a religious revivial, then this week’s Democratic equivalent was … well, also reminiscent of a spiritual gathering, but crossed with a summer concert festival vibes (even without Beyoncé). “The atmosphere of the Democratic National Convention this week went beyond mere enthusiasm—it ventured on rapturous,” wrote TNR’s […]
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Before completing her undergraduate studies, Sophie Hartley, a student in MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing, had an epiphany that was years in the making. “The classes I took in my last undergraduate semester changed my career goals, but it started with my grandfather,” she says when asked about what led her to science writing. She’d […]
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The Republican Party has long interwoven Christian themes in its political messaging, but this week’s GOP convention took it to a new level. Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum resembled a megachurch full of revivalists more than an arena of politicos. Donald Trump, of course, was the divinely chosen figure, who just last weekend experienced a miracle when […]
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In the early 2000s, Naomi Harris—then a novice just starting out in documentary photography—went on a wild journey through the sex party scene of small-town America. The resulting 2008 book, America Swings, is perhaps the greatest documentary project you’ve never heard of. Yet in many ways, Harris only discovered the scene by accident. She was […]
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It is an iconic image — a black-and-white photo of a blood-splattered student being clubbed by a paratrooper medic. It was the first photo to slip through the military cordon around Gwangju, South Korea, in 1980, exposing the brutal suppression of what would be known as the Gwangju Democratization Movement. But for years, the identity […]
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earth photo awards 2024 Each year, photographers and filmmakers from around the world participate in Earth Photo, an international open call and exhibition showcasing compelling stories about our planet. This year’s competition, like previous editions, invited creatives to submit works across various categories, encouraging them to frame stories of both climate crisis, biodiversity decline, as […]
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opera park: a verdant retreat amid urban copenhagen David Altrath casts his lens on COBE’s Opera Park (Operaparken) — a tranquil, verdant retreat from the bustle of urban life in Copenhagen. The Hamburg-based photographer captures the sweeping curves, expansive green oasis, and quiet pockets of this harbor-front public space which provides spaces for recreation, relaxation, […]
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Neal Grundy’s Safe from Harm Series Explores Coastal Erosion Neal Grundy’s Safe from Harm photography series explores rock erosion of coastal landscapes, focusing on the south of England, where chalk cliffs are rapidly eroding. England’s coastline is among the fastest eroding in Europe, with some areas losing up to two meters annually. Grundy uses brightly […]
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Vivian Maier was a disappearance artist. Street photographers typically keep hidden when shooting, but Maier receded in every aspect of her life. Her now well-known story, which has contributed greatly to her posthumous fame, is that while she supported herself through employment as a nanny, her true vocation was photography. She worked primarily in black-and-white […]
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Strange things appear in the forests and chaparral of California after a big rain. Invigorated by the damp, fungi living quietly in the soil sprout fruiting bodies. Some have the familiar mushroom shape of a stalk and a cap, but others resemble fluorescent corals, wads of clear brown jelly, brilliant yellow buttons — bizarre forms […]
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If you’re a habitual saver, not to say hoarder, of personal memorabilia — snapshots, postcards, clippings, ticket stubs, notes-to-self, — the time comes when you need to figure out what to do with the stuff — sort-and-toss, or deep store? — if only to clear space for more. The artist Lyle Ashton Harris is just […]
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In 1975, Bertien van Manen, who has died at 89 in Amsterdam, was working as a fashion photographer when a friend gave her a copy of “The Americans,” the groundbreaking collection of photos that the photographer Robert Frank took on a road trip across the United States in the 1950s. Inspired by Mr. Frank’s work, […]
Read MoreSilvio Cohen has been doing this for years. Soak, rinse, soak, dry, repeat. Thirty-five millimeter, medium format, old cameras, new film. Analog work in a digital age. “When I tell my friends that we still do developing, they laugh,” Cohen said. “It’s a different feel. The finish is a different finish.” Cohen works at 42nd […]
Read MoreRon Edmonds, a photographer for The Associated Press who won a Pulitzer Prize for a dramatic series of pictures of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan and the takedown of the gunman outside a Washington hotel in 1981, died on Fridayin Falls Church, Va. He was 77. His wife, Grace Feliciano Edmonds, said he […]
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NORTH KOREA: The People’s Paradise, by Tariq Zaidi A woman pokes her head out from a hidden room at the Kumgangsan Hotel — a place known for hosting reunions between families from North and South Korea — disrupting the sweeping autumnal landscape painted on the wall. The image, reproduced by Tariq Zaidi in NORTH KOREA: […]
Read MoreIn the UK, hip-hop culture started emerging in the early 80s with rappers, DJs, graffiti writers and breakdancers taking their cues from what was happening stateside and putting their own spin on it. Crews formed across the country as like-minded people started making music together and building communities. And in London, there was a British-Jamaican […]
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Thirty years ago, Black South Africans voted for the first time as the country celebrated the monumental birth of a democracy. As I write this, South Africa is bathed in warm winter sunlight and South Africans are free. That day, April 27, 1994, changed the lives of everyone in the country. I was there. But […]
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Shayne Patrick Burke was on a short hike this month to photograph owls in the backcountry of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming when he spotted a grizzly bear cub about 50 to 70 yards in front of him. Instantly, Mr. Burke knew that the cub’s presence signaled trouble, he wrote on Instagram. Moments later, […]
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About 10 years ago, as the war in Afghanistan was slowly, painfully winding down, I walked through Arlington National Cemetery with a fellow Marine veteran and a relative of mine visiting from Ireland. We passed row after row of pristine white tombs, the dead of all the just wars and unjust wars that made and […]
Read MoreEvery August, motorcyclists descend on the tiny French commune of Porcaro, in Brittany, to get themselves and their bikes blessed for the roads ahead. The pilgrimage fuses biker culture with the Christian faith, and it even features a biker-priest. The bikers’ benediction, known as Le Pardon des Motards, is a sub-event of Les Grands Pardons […]
Read MoreEver been to Naples? It’s a feral circus-town. An open-air asylum with Spritz instead of blood and 200 angry mopeds desperate to get past you on every street you have the gall to walk down. It’s one of the greatest places on Earth, and one of its favourite pastimes is blowing up colossal fireworks that […]
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The photographer Susan Kaufman fell in love with the Hamptons at the age of 8. She was seated in the back of her parent’s car, on her way from her childhood home in New Rochelle, N.Y., to visit her aunt and uncle’s East Hampton house for the very first time. It was 1966. Out the […]
Read MoreRussian playwright and novelist Leonid Andreyev with his second wife, Anna Denisevich, in Finland, 1910. What started as a hobby for Stuart Humphryes has turned into a social media behemoth. Since July 2020, Humphryes has been enhancing spectacular early color photographs to an adoring following. And after much clamoring, he finally has a book out: […]
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Daniel Kramer, a photojournalist who captured Bob Dylan’s era-tilting transformation from acoustic guitar-strumming folky to electric prince of rock in the mid-1960s, and who shot the covers for his landmark albums “Bringing It All Back Home” and “Highway 61 Revisited,” died on April 29 in Melville, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 91. His death, […]
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A continuous high-pitched din — a bit whirring, a bit crunching — echoed over the Bottom, the residential sliver of Braddock, Pa., nearest to the industrial plants and the Monongahela River. It rose, indistinguishably, from the steel mill — the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, opened by Andrew Carnegie in 1875 and still operating — and […]
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An American surgeon who volunteered in Gaza sent me a photo that sears me with its glimpse of overwhelming grief: A woman mourns her young son. I’ve known the surgeon, Dr. Sam Attar, a professor at Northwestern University School of Medicine, for a decade. He has worked in war zones around the world, from Ukraine […]
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Stanley Stellar was on Canal Street one Sunday morning in 1976 when a young man with a killer body passed by. Like many New York street photographers, Stellar is curious, bordering on nosy, and he can, when necessary, be a whiz at masking flirtation as flattery to put straight guys at ease. Stellar convinced the […]
Read MoreThe concerns echo in Grants Pass. The Sobering Center that the city planned in its vagrancy roundtable opened its doors in 2016. The facility consists of 12 locked rooms, where people can stay for up to 24 hours. Almost half of its nightly inhabitants are placed there by the police. The town’s only shelter, the […]
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