American Photo • 21st February 2017

Material Connections

While much of contemporary photography includes experimenting in the digital darkroom, some artists are looking for a more material connection to their work: Taking physical elements or aspects of their subjects and incorporating them into their final product. Matthew Brandt, Jane Fulton, and Odette England each take an innovative approach to working with nature in three new bodies of work.

American Photo • 16th February 2017

Dreams Realized

Claire Oring's rising star in fashion photography is inspired by myth, legend, and fantastical concept shoots — and with clients like Urban Outfitters, Billabong and BCBGeneration, the 24-year-old scene-stealer is just getting started.

American Photo • 26th January 2017

Full Immersion

When a photographer plunges deep into a subject, the result can be a stunning, career-making body of work. These documentary photographers go above and beyond to show us worlds that, without these pictures, we would never have otherwise known.

Artinfo.com • 23rd June 2017

Reclaiming History in "Walker Evans: American Photographs" at MoMA

MoMA revisits the narrative arc of one of America's most legendary photographers in a new 75th-anniversary retrospective.

American Photo • 21st February 2017

Team Works

For most photographers, taking pictures is a solo pursuit. But for the duos on these pages, a partnership is the key to success. Their professional collaborations began with a personal bond, whether filial, friendly, or romantic. What makes these photographic partnerships last? A shared passion for the images.

Artinfo • 21st February 2017

The Day Everything Changed: Photography and National Tragedy at ICP

Fifty years after a John F. Kennedy's last motorcade made its way through Dallas's downtown Dealey Plaza, “JFK November 22, 1963: A Bystander's View of History,” on view at the International Center of Photography in New York, offers an idea of what it might have been like to witness it from the crowd.

Popular Photography • 21st February 2017

Infrared View

Artist Richard Mosse, 32, never dreamed he would photograph in the Congo. Nor did he anticipate working with infrared film. But in 2009, when he learned that color infrared film was slated to be discontinued, he saw a chance for a new way of working, and the two came together.

Artinfo • 27th February 2017

Contemporary Photographers Stand Out at New York's AIPAD Fair

The AIPAD Photography Show, long-known most as a yearly congregation for all the greatest hits in vintage photos, has in recent years been attracting more and more contemporary photo work, both from smaller galleries and on the walls of major dealers.

American Photo • 21st February 2017

A Long Time Coming

As long and intensive as many personal projects tend to be, Marc Asnin’s Uncle Charlie surpasses most. The 30-year investigation into his uncle Charlie Henschke’s chaotic life started in 1981, when Asnin began photographing him for a student project.

Artinfo • 18th May 2018

Slideshow: 21c Museum Hotel Bentonville Grand Opening

The 21c Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, opened with a Hybrid-themed exhibition last weekend. See photos from the event here.

Popular Photography • 27th February 2017

Girls and Dolls

Ilona Szwarc explores what American Girl dolls reveal about America's girls.

Popular Photography • 22nd February 2017

The Explorer's Club

Over the past several years, the subject of abandonment, whether expressed through images of depopulated rural areas or through the work of urban explorers, has become increasingly compelling to documentarians and fine-art photographers alike.

American Photo • 21st February 2017

Meet Henry, The Flying Baby

Providence, Rhode Island, and New York City–based Rachel Hulin often draws on her early fantasies of levitation for her editorial and commercial photography. But the inspiration for her new children’s book came mostly from her son, Henry.

Popular Photography • 21st February 2017

Miguel Vallinas's Animal Instinct

After completing Skins, a portrait series of people in their work attire, advertising and industrial photographer Miguel Vallinas pondered ways to capture the different sides of human nature. One day, hanging out with his dog Leo, Vallinas had the idea to capture his pet’s human side by compositing it with a self-portrait, giving birth to his next series, Second Skins.

Popular Photography • 27th February 2017

Boris Mikhailov's Dual Reality

A new book of old images explores the awakening mind of an artist in the former Soviet Union.

Popular Photography • 21st February 2017

Ghost Tales

Corinne May Boltz’s “Haunted Houses” series began more as road-trip photography than a ghost hunt. “I’ve always been interested in domestic interiors, and the connections that people have with their homes,” she says. “Photographing homes with ghosts seemed a unique way to explore that interest.”

Popular Photography • 21st February 2017

Images From Nollywood

On first look at some of the images in Pieter Hugo's new book, Nollywood (Prestel, October 2009; $50), you might think that this is a documentary of civil conflict: scarred soldiers in mud-covered uniform, or children sitting in rubble-filled fields. It's only when you flip to a portrait of a vampire, with red eyes and fangs, or a zombie sipping Coca Cola, that you realize you're being tricked.

Popular Photography • 27th February 2017

Raw Emulsion

Matthew Brandt's images of waterways are processed using the very same water he photographs.

American Photo • 21st February 2017

Today's Frat Brothers, Tomorrow's Leaders

For many American university students and graduates, Greek life is an almost inescapable part of the campus experience. But for a European like commercial photographer Philip Habib, raised in Milan and now living in upstate New York, it was largely unfamiliar outside of a John Belushi movie.

Popular Photography • 27th February 2017

Life Along the 38th Parallel

A look at Mark Edward Harris' new book, "Inside North Korea."