Category: Stories

  • A Photo Story: The First City in the Americas

    A Photo Story: The First City in the Americas

    Adam Arenas went to Santo Domingo without a camera, came back with a Ricoh and a reason to return. His account of the Zona Colonial, in his own words, and why the old stone kept pulling him to black and white.

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  • A Photo Story: Nobody Is Looking at the View

    A Photo Story: Nobody Is Looking at the View

    Flavia Silva walked the port district of Rio de Janeiro on a gray July Wednesday and came home with twelve pictures in which nobody is looking at the view.

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  • A Photo Story: Seventy Voices, Twenty Six Recorded

    A Photo Story: Seventy Voices, Twenty Six Recorded

    Bojan Fürst set out to profile seventy Newfoundlanders and Labradorians for the seventieth anniversary of the province joining Canada. He finished twenty six before the pandemic stopped him, and he wants to finish the rest.

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  • A Photo Story: The Masks That Scared Him as a Boy

    A Photo Story: The Masks That Scared Him as a Boy

    Ajay Lalu stopped at the Kaapse Klopse on his way home from a photo walk. Three years later, after earning his way into the rehearsals, workshops and homes behind the parade, the work became a book.

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  • A Photo Story: What Thirty Eight Years as a Rabbi Taught Him to Notice

    A Photo Story: What Thirty Eight Years as a Rabbi Taught Him to Notice

    A retired rabbi turned street photographer stumbled onto a Brooklyn Chabad camp trip on a ferry to Governors Island. What he found was less about religious difference and more about what a hundred kids look like on a field trip.

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  • A Photo Story: One Camera One Lens One Family Holiday

    A Photo Story: One Camera One Lens One Family Holiday

    Rob Sutherland is a commercial and landscape photographer who has shot a photo a day for sixteen years. On a family trip to Iceland he had to figure out, in real time, how to be fully present as a father while still making meaningful photographs. Here is how he actually did it.

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  • A Photo Story: A Feud, a Friendship, and a Clock

    A Photo Story: A Feud, a Friendship, and a Clock

    Ty Nelson picked up a camera because he loved wrestling, and started shooting the action the way most beginners do. What he found instead, over years of showing up to a banquet hall in Joliet, was something closer to a long running story he was quietly documenting one show at a time. This is the…

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  • A Photo Story: The Music Never Stops

    A Photo Story: The Music Never Stops

    Kenneth Nelson had one goal on June 26, 2004. Document the Mermaid Parade. Then the music found him first, and it never really let go. Eighteen years and more than six thousand photographs later, he is still trying to figure out which single face captures what happens on that boardwalk.

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  • A Photo Story: What the Wood Knows

    A Photo Story: What the Wood Knows

    Andre Vallgren spent a day photographing a Swedish luthier who has built guitars for Keith Richards and Ryan Adams. What he found was less about the instruments and more about the man building them.

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  • A Photo Story: Ignitions

    A Photo Story: Ignitions

    Andrés Gonzalez started asking questions about Portugal’s wildfires in 2023 and has not stopped since. He rides hundreds of kilometers on a motorcycle into the interior of the country while fires are still burning, sometimes arriving before emergency crews. Ignitions is not a project about flames. It is a project about the exhausting human reality…

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