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Botanical Inquiry

Relying exclusively on the transformative power of the analog camera, this series shuffles nature, geography, and physics into familiar yet fantastical environments.

Botanical Inquiry

Relying exclusively on the transformative power of the analog camera, this series shuffles nature, geography, and physics into familiar yet fantastical environments.

All That Glitters…

We are slowly being conditioned to expect (economic) disparity as the norm—this series offers a visual challenge to such a quiet, insidious acceptance.

Bread and Circuses: Dubai’s Extravagant Contradictions

What is it like to photograph in one of the world’s most exclusive and PR-conscious cities? A former photojournalist speaks about using a slower documentary approach to pierce into the “parallel world” that is Dubai.

Beautiful Boy

A photographer and her domestic partner use staged portraiture as an expressive way to explore male/female identity and reclaim a personal definition of beauty.

In Search of the Poets and New Masters of Street Photography

Who are the next great street photographers? Where will we find them? Photo editor Olivier Laurent—serving on the jury of the LensCulture Street Photography Awards—shares his insights.

Back to Petersburg: Past Perfect Continuous

“After years of absence, an immigrant’s homecoming is an exercise in spectral doubleness. Returning to a city where one grew up, one understands the new order of things but fails to belong to it. Immersed in the here and now, one holds allegiances only t

Rio Alone

There are no landscapes—there is only light. Poetic responses to the unique beauty of the Rio de Janeiro coast made using a 4x5 film camera.

What He Sees Who Is Perfectly Still

A reflection on the work of Russian photographer Emil Gataullin—beginning with his childhood in a small town beyond Moscow and running through his arresting, contemplative street photography.

Photography Today at National Geographic

A senior photo editor reveals what it takes to land an assignment for the iconic magazine—passion, dedication, research, a sense of history, an eye for poetry, and more.

On Sale Now: The Best of LensCulture, Volume 1

Fresh, inspiring, insightful, thought-provoking: LensCulture is proud to present its first major book publication, which offers an overview and introduction to 160 of the most exciting contemporary photographers working today.

Prom in Flint

As part of the all-encompassing documentary project “Flint is a Place,” a photographer travels to Flint, Michigan—home to a devastating water crisis—to focus on an important year-end celebration.

Löyly: Passage, Transit, Transition

Featuring bodies that are neither definitively masculine nor feminine, a series that explores suspended identities in the throes of transformation.

Maybe I’ll See You There

Seeking to present a “sincere” narrative of everyday life in Detroit—a city that has experienced dizzying ups and downs in the past 50 years—these photographs illuminate stories and neighborhoods that are slowly being swept out of sight.

H-O-P-S-C-O-T-C-H

“Street photography is game for me—a game that takes our ordinary, daily lives as a canvas and offers a more elastic reality in which the familiar and the fantastic coexist....”

“In This World, Everything Is Difficult”: Saints on the Streets of Athens

Arresting new images—”sharp, dry, precise…at times instinctive and surgical”—from an award-winning series that reveals the interior worlds of refugees living on the streets of Athens.

100 Great Street Photographs: From the Screen to the Printed Page

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The Summer Has Come

The beach is a great equalizer—no matter one’s way of life, everyone sheds their clothing (and social conventions) as soon as they step onto the sand. Here, varied moments of enjoyment from seasides around the world.

From the End of the Analog Era to the Enduring Wilderness

After photographing the implosion of film-photography institutions across the world, Robert Burley turned his lens to a new subject and a new question of impermanence: the disappearing wild spaces around us.

Tokyo Is Yours: Seeking Sense Through Street Photography

“Sometimes I feel like I am living in a film that I have imagined…” The serendipity and strangeness of street photography is used to make sense of the fantasies and fears radiating from Tokyo’s residents.

Looking for Identity, Looking for Lenin

As Ukraine struggles to establish its national identity, there is no more potent symbol through which to understand this process than the disappearance of Lenin statues all over the country.

Sauna: Requiem from the North

A poetic series on life in one of Sweden’s remote archipelagos—shot against a stark, immobile landscape over a period of 20 years as a family grows, lives, ages, and diminishes.

Circus

In a new exhibition at SF Camerawork, artists interpret the titular theme in a multitude of ways. Expect to see acrobats and trained animals—but also a sharp critique of our contemporary media environment and the everyday spectacle that is (American) politi

Instant Mosul: The Conflict Through 5 Photojournalists’ Instagram Feeds

A look at how Instagram captures the day-to-day realities of living in conflict situations—and accounts to follow if you want to stay up to date.​

Detroit From Up Close and On High

Combining aerial views with street-level scenes, the dichotomies of Detroit are revealed: a city that contains young people (and young money) alongside many neighborhoods which are struggling to survive. 

Golden Scars

In a society where broken things are discarded almost instantaneously, an artist takes inspiration from Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, which highlights the beauty of imperfection.

Golden Scars

In a society where broken things are discarded almost instantaneously, an artist takes inspiration from Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, which highlights the beauty of imperfection.

Street Photography as a Gift from the Universe

“For me, street photography is like poetry to literature; jazz to music. I get high from the freedom. Street images are direct proof of the existence of harmony in our world…”

Street Photography as a Gift from the Universe

“For me, street photography is like poetry to literature; jazz to music. I get high from the freedom. Street images are direct proof of the existence of harmony in our world…”

The Airmen

Follow a collaborative duo into the homes of celebrated Polish World War II pilots and hear their remarkable stories—all the more poignant because of how quickly they are fading from memory.

Lines

“When I started this project, I asked myself: Could I photograph individuals without substance, without identity?” A series that questions the traces, even scents, left behind in a street photograph.

A Picture of What is to Come: Our Drowning World

A globally-minded “struggle photographer” takes on the most pressing issue of our day—climate change—in this stirring installation of portraits, landscapes and found photographs.

Tehran, City of Hope and Despair

Shot from 2012-2014—at the height of the international sanctions that crippled Iran’s economy—a striking street series that represents a “deeply interior” view of Iranian society.

Tehran, City of Hope and Despair

Shot from 2012-2014—at the height of the international sanctions that crippled Iran’s economy—a striking street series that represents a “deeply interior” view of Iranian society.

Color (Street) Work

After a long day shooting in the cold London streets, light, balloons, and a celebration emerge from the darkness. A reminder that hope—and a great shot—can appear at any moment.

Not Seeing is a Flower

 “Whatever you think, think the opposite” is an expression that is often heard in Japan—this series looks at the country’s modern beauty while exploring its lasting influence on Western art.

A Polaroid for a Refugee

When is documenting a crisis not enough? Stymied by the volume of digital images produced by photojournalists, this photographer returned to the material medium in order to literally give something back to her subjects.

That Moment

After reaching a plateau in his creative growth, a photographer returns to a few of the greats (Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alex Webb) for inspiration—and ends up diving lens-first into a whole new photographic genre.

Martha

“Why don’t you photograph me anymore?” A simple question sparks an ongoing project between a photographer and her stepdaughter that explores the tender, intimate moments of young womanhood. 

Lowlands

A photographer’s visual (and auditory) exploration of the Arctic has resulted in a multi-faceted media experience that mixes images and music, confronting us with the impermanence of the natural world.
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