A Venezuelan Family’s Three-Thousand-Mile Journey to New York
Last year, one of Alexis’s cousins decided to try his luck in the United States. He and his wife set off from northern Colombia, reached Panama through the Darién Gap,…
A Double View of the World from Inside Mosques
Marwan Bassiouni’s photographs in “New Western Views” capture two places at once. Each picture in the series was taken inside a mosque, with the camera pointing toward the windows to…
The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer
Maksym Levin, a Ukrainian photojournalist in his early forties, woke just before nine at a military base outside Kyiv. It was Sunday, March 13, 2022, the eighteenth day of war.…
The Impact of Russian Missile Strikes on Ukraine’s Power Grid
After successive waves of Russian strikes, Ukraine has faced a stark electricity deficit and rolling blackouts. At any given moment, millions of Ukrainian households are without power, as part of…
A Landscape Shared by Native Americans and the One Per Cent
“On This Site,” which documents places that are important to Native American history along Long Island, takes its inspiration from a project of the same name by the photographer Joel…
An Outlier to the Pictures Generation Gets Her Due
Ellen Carey’s kaleidoscopic self-portraits put her out of synch with many of her peers. As her work has evolved, the times have caught up.
A Turkish Photographer’s Tribute to the Girls of Quranic Schools
In Turkey, a long-held ban on veiling in state institutions was lifted only a decade ago. As a teen-ager, Çimen postponed her own college plans to avoid having to unveil.…
Richard Avedon’s Naked Murals | The New Yorker
The most successful, most memorable, and the most difficult piece to pull off was “Andy Warhol and members of The Factory.” It is dated October 30, 1969, but was begun…
Samuel Fosso’s Century in Selfies
His star turn came in the early nineties, when a scout for Rencontres de Bamako, a newly established biennial of African photography, visited his studio. Fosso didn’t yet consider himself…
A Parisian Wanderer with a Humanist Lens
Pierre Verger traced and retraced paths through the U.S. and elsewhere while staying alert to beauty in all its forms.
