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A Photographer’s Insider View of Bohemian Life

He’s 87, and his first photo book, “Ken Van Sickle: Photography 1954-2009,” captures the lives of artists and bohemians on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Intimate Photos of Community and Resilience in New York’s Chinatown in the 1980s

As waves of immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China arrived in Lower Manhattan, Bud Glick documented Chinatown and provided much needed detail and context for a community often reduced to clichés.

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An American Photographer’s Pilgrimage to the Italian Village of Luzzara

More than 60 years after Paul Strand’s seminal photos of Luzzara, photographer David Maialetti documented the Italian village and its residents.

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A Mother and Daughter’s Unlikely Journey as Migrant Workers

Xyza Bacani and her mother were migrant domestic workers who left their home in the Philippines for Hong Kong. She photographed her mother’s path and the effect it had on their family.

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13 Stories That Captured Photography in 2018

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Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’

A new retrospective book “Seeing Deeply” reveals his decades-long exploration of community, memory and photography.

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Creating a Community of Latin American Women Photographers

For four years, the online platform Foto Féminas has brought together a virtual community of experienced and emerging photographers.

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Spices. Soil. Worn Photos. These Are the Objects Unidentified Migrants Left Behind.

Rocco Rorandelli captures the lives of the refugees and migrants who died crossing a river between Turkey and Greece through the things they carried

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Beyond the Myth of the War Photographer

In “Shooting War,” the psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein explores the complexity of photographers’ day-to-day work covering conflict and human depravity.

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Images That Counter Traditional Depictions of Women

In Hannah Starkey’s photographs, women often appear alone doing ordinary activities, but these moments — which neither glorify nor objectify them — are bestowed an unmistakable emotional gravity.