Sara Distin

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Paper, Ping Pong and Spilled Milk: Robin Maddock's Absurdist California Portraits

Photographer Robin Maddock spent a couple of years walking around California with a 35 mm camera and black and white film, shooting three things: a ping pong ball, a blank sheet of white paper, and spilled milk. The resulting images in his third book, iii, are playfully elegant one-liners about seeing and being.

By Sara Distin

Mark Dorf's Photographic Dreamscapes

Mark Dorf blends landscape photographs with collage, 3D renderings and 3D scans to create stunning semi-virtual "dreamscapes"

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Muscle Beach: Pumping Iron in Ukraine

The Ukrainian weightlifters in Kirill Golovchenko’s photographs make even the burliest Crossfitters look bantam cute.

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Portraits of the Winners, the Best and Better in Belarus

Wry portraits of the best milkmaids, fitness queens, hunters, potato farmers and other winners of the quirky propagandistic contests organized by one of last remaining dictatorships in Europe.

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Life on a 'Death River' in Bangladesh

The Buriganga River gave life to Dhaka, and Dhaka killed it. Photographer Ugo Borga documents the human and environmental catastrophe unfolding in Bangladesh.

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Flashback to the Timeless Malls of the 1980s

In the winter of 1989, Michael Galinsky drove across the U.S. photographing malls and the people inside them. Looking back, it's not where in the U.S. Galinsky photographed — it's impossible to tell Indiana from Arkansas — but when.

By Sara Distin

Staging Reality: Alex Prager's Timeless Faces in the Crowd

Prager's colorful, elaborately staged photographs of crowds, on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, comprise the artist's most ambitious project to date.

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Behind the Scenes: Martin Schoeller Shoots (and Eats!) with Three Famous Chefs

When Martin Schoeller was thinking about how he wanted to photograph Alex Atala, René Redzepi, and David Chang, he decided to head for the wilds.

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Life and Death in Varanasi: Portraits From the Banks of a Sacred River

When David Leventi arrived in Varanasi, India, to photograph the palaces along the Ganges River as he had documented those along the canals in Venice, Italy, he realized this project would be a significant departure from his expectations.

By Sara Distin

Go Behind the Scenes with Benedict Cumberbatch

In a quick and collaborative shoot for TIME, photographer Paola Kudacki caught a break in Benedict Cumberbatch's perfect appearance.

By Sara Distin
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