A Limited View of Boys From the Bronx
Examining Stephen Shames’s new book “Bronx Boys,” Maurice Berger raises questions about the responsibilities inherent in documenting a community.Read more »
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Revisiting Unhealed Wounds in Chechnya
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Revisiting Unhealed Wounds in Chechnya
In “Hidden Scars,” Stanley Greene returns to Chechnya to document the aftermath of the 1993 conflict.Read more »
Bonding With Russian Soccer Superfans
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Bonding Brutally With Russian Soccer Superfans
Itinerant groups of soccer superfans in Russia prove their loyalty by slugging it out with rival fans – sometimes of the same team.Read more »
Canada’s La Belle Province
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Canada’s La Belle Province
Gabor Szilasi never intended to create an archive of life in Quebec, yet his images constitute a vibrant visual history of the province that was his haven when he fled Communist Hungary.Read more »
Same-Sex Couples, at Ease at Home
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Same-Sex Couples, at Ease at Home
Sage Sohier’s photos of same-sex couples were inspired, in part, by her father — who never admitted he was gay despite having lived with boyfriends.Read more »
W. Eugene Smith Awards for Humanistic Photography
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W. Eugene Smith Awards for Humanistic Photography
This year’s grant in humanistic photography goes to Joseph Sywenkyj, who has spent years documenting one family’s struggle in Ukraine. It is not, he said, a story of quick change or fast healing. Read more »
Loving Light at the Office
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Loving Light at the Office
In “Office Romance,” The New York Times Magazine’s director of photography shares her love affair — if not obsession — with Instagram photos that feature dramatic light, shapes and shadows inside the Times building. Read more »
Seeing Beauty Where Others Do Not
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Seeing Beauty Where Others Do Not
For more than 60 years, Marc Riboud has collected the humor, grace, anguish and beauty of fleeting moments around the world. Read more »
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Notion of Family
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LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Notion of Family
LaToya Ruby Frazier looked at her family’s history to build an enduring narrative of African-American life in the Rust Belt town where she was raised. Read more »
Pink or Blue Toys for Girls and Boys
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Pink or Blue Toys for Girls and Boys
Which side are you on? When it comes to kids and their stuff, JeongMee Yoon discovered it came down to this: pink or blue?Read more »
Guantánamo’s Surreal Prison Landscape
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Guantánamo’s Surreal Prison Landscape
Debi Cornwall wanted to see how prisoners and military guards lived at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. She discovered a surreal “paradise” marked by contrast and contradictions.Read more »
