Photo Essay

Los Angeles Is a Very Different City After Dark

Los Angeles Is a Very Different City After Dark Los Angeles Is a Very Different City After Dark

Photos show how the cityscape is remade each night.

Jul 6, 2016 / Photo Essay / Camilo José Vergara

Seeing Appalachia Through the Eyes of Appalachians

Seeing Appalachia Through the Eyes of Appalachians Seeing Appalachia Through the Eyes of Appalachians

Several new media projects are re-envisioning a region long stereotyped as backward and ignorant.

Jun 25, 2016 / Photo Essay / Layne Amerikaner

These Haunting Photos Show the Deadly Absurdity of the US-Mexico Border Wall

These Haunting Photos Show the Deadly Absurdity of the US-Mexico Border Wall These Haunting Photos Show the Deadly Absurdity of the US-Mexico Border Wall

A collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer Guillermo Galindo captures the austere brutality of the borderlands.

May 11, 2016 / Photo Essay / John Washington

Vietnam’s Labor Newspaper, Where a Staff of 200 Reports on Abuses at Home and Abroad

Vietnam’s Labor Newspaper, Where a Staff of 200 Reports on Abuses at Home and Abroad Vietnam’s Labor Newspaper, Where a Staff of 200 Reports on Abuses at Home and Abroad

Lao Dong belongs to the official union federation, but it maintains an independent critical voice.

Mar 30, 2016 / Photo Essay / David Bacon

Sports Marketing

Sports Marketing Sports Marketing

For Fightball players, the game is a mix of endurance and skill. For the audience, there’s a mix of spectacle, glamour, and drama.

Mar 15, 2016 / Photo Essay / Naima Green

Humans of the Iowa Caucus

Humans of the Iowa Caucus Humans of the Iowa Caucus

Profiles of 21 voters in the days before the caucuses.

Feb 1, 2016 / Photo Essay / Richard Kreitner and Thomas Bollier

Reclaiming Black History, One Grave at a Time

Reclaiming Black History, One Grave at a Time Reclaiming Black History, One Grave at a Time

Photojournalist Brian Palmer documents the effort to restore a Virginia cemetery overtaken by trash and brush during years of official neglect.

Oct 15, 2015 / Photo Essay / Brian Palmer and Erin Hollaway Palmer

South Africa’s Barriers to Abortion

South Africa’s Barriers to Abortion South Africa’s Barriers to Abortion

Seventeen years ago, as apartheid came to an end in South Africa and a democratically elected government took power, the country became an abortion rights pioneer. In 1996, the pos…

Jan 3, 2013 / Photo Essay / Jake Naughton, Jina Moore, and Estelle Ellis

Slide Show: Syria’s Zabadani, A City Under Siege

Slide Show: Syria’s Zabadani, A City Under Siege Slide Show: Syria’s Zabadani, A City Under Siege

Zabadani, located 20 miles northwest of Damascus near the Lebanese border, was once a popular summer destination for tourists from the Gulf. Seventeen months after the Syrian revol…

Aug 10, 2012 / Photo Essay / The Nation

Ten Reasons to Avoid Doing Business With Amazon.com

Ten Reasons to Avoid Doing Business With Amazon.com Ten Reasons to Avoid Doing Business With Amazon.com

Even with Borders gone and independent booksellers struggling to get by, the war for the future of publishing rages on. As Steve Wasserman explains in “The Amazon Effect,&rdq…

May 31, 2012 / Photo Essay / The Nation

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