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 ......
'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 ......
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 ......
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, ......
Colombia is the main producer of cocaine in the world, fuelled by demand from the US and Europe and Nissen has documented both the intricacies of the trade and lives impacted as well as the civil war in Colombia since 2010. The economics of the cocaine drug trade, intertwined with poverty and inequality, in a county with an ingrained history and ......
On 23 July 2018, in the North East of Athens, Greece, one of the deadliest wild fire sever recorded took place. It was in the area photographer Katerina Angelopoulou spent her summers as a child, and the home of her parents. The fire rushed from the hilltop, jumping over the pine trees, and to the edge of the sea in less than an hour and a ......
The photographs in JML NYC 02-23 were made over two decades as Joseph Michael Lopeztraversed the streets of the boroughs of New York by foot. Devoid of the visual tropes associatedwith the city, the images instead present a vision of New York as it was experienced.
