In the mid-1970s, an economic down turn combined with complex social and political pressures caused the gradual decline of the South Bronx. By the 1980s, crime, middle-class exodus, fires, and the lack of public services had taken their toll-little was left standing. The photographs Ray Mortenson took during this time were intended to present an ......
He documented the fall of the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria. He was in Gaza during the protests following the relocation of the American Embassy from TelAviv to Jerusalem and witnessed the wars in Libya, Afghanistan, Nagorno Karabakh and the conflict between the Turkish army and the Kurds of the PKK. During his career he has built ......
'For many indigenous communities, hair is a physical expression of thought-an extension of the self, much like the way rivers flow or plants grow from the earth. It reflects a deep spiritual connection to nature, rooted in reverence, humility, and reciprocity. Similar beliefs exist among Indigenous peoples worldwide, like Native Americans. What ......
He created the images using two analogue processes, one with a paper negative, the other produced using a complex colour-reversal process. 'These are representations of flowers, of course, but they are also signs of a complex improvisation with chemicals, paper, light, and time. I do not know what the image is going to be like at the start of the ......
Features of these training environments included costumed role-players, elaborate Hollywood-inspired sets and staged tableaus hinting at the imagined lives of far-away people. Those portrayed in the photographs include military personnel-often combat veterans playing the role of enemy combatants-immigrants from Iraq or Afghanistan intended to make ......
Featuring images alongside an insightful essay by renowned art historian Julian Stallabrass, it offers a perspective on a conflict that touches us all. The project's title comes from a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann; for a long time, it carried the working title 'Kowitsch'. What I saw then - and what I witness now - is a country caught between a ......
McCullin's has been creating still life arrangements in his garden shed at home in Somerset since the early 1980s.Each still life has been lyrically constructed with the natural-cut flowers (lilies, fox-gloves, gladioli), fruit or fungi-often presented alongside beloved mementos of his travels; a bronze dragon from the orient, a junk shop vase, a ......
In 1997, on a commission to photograph a public building being made, Magnum photographer Mark Power was given access to the construction site of the Millennium Dome, in east London. From there he went on to take pictures during other various commissions around the world, creating images at various construction sites, factories, quarries, ......
The images depict a country in upheaval, as experienced by a foreign photographer who has spent over a decade navigating its complexities. 'Afghanistan resists foreign understanding, and its image has been repeatedly appropriated and reshaped by the empires that have occupied it over the centuries. Misunderstandings arise not only from the ......
