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TIME LightBox presents a new monthly round-up of the best books, exhibitions and ways to experience photography beyond the web—from the Reportage Photography Festival in Sydney and a new Mitch Epstein book to Martin Parr’s ‘Life’s a Beach’ at Aperture in New York and an André Kertész show in London.
_‘The Guide’ on LightBox will be published monthly. If you have submissions or suggestions for upcoming round-ups of the best books and exhibitions, feel free to_ [_pass them along via email_](mailto:lightbox@time.com "undefined") _before May 10\. We’ll also be updating this gallery throughout the month._
_See the previous_ [_Guide for April 2013_](http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/01/the-guide-april-2013-edition/ "undefined")_._
Festival. Reportage Photography Festival, Sydney, Australia. May 25 - June 13, 2013\. Pictured: An Iraqi Christian girl roller skates in Daoudia, Dohuk Province, Iraq, on Mar. 2, 2012. Adam Ferguson—VII
Book. Mitch Dobrowner: Prism Series Book Number 2\. 21 ST Editions, May, 2013\. Pictured: Moonrise Trona, 2012. Mitch Dobrowner
Exhibition. Jehad Nga, "New Work, Mali and Libya." Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York. May 30 - July 13, 2013\. Pictured: Untitled, 2013. Jehad Nga
Exhibition. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Byker, New York. Closes May 11, 2013\. Pictured: Man Gesturing in Demolished Street, 1971. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Exhibition. Hiromi Tsuchida, Zokushkin, Tokyo. May 1-June 1, 2013\. Pictured: Isshiki-Kurosawa, Aichi Pref. 1969. Hiromi Tsuchida
Exhibition. David Benjamin Sherry, "Wonderful Land." Wonderful Land, Los Angeles, California. Closes May 17, 2013\. Pictured: Winter Sunrise over Yosemite Valley, Yosemite, California, 2013. David Benjamin Sherry
Exhibition. Car Culture: Art and the Automobile. The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY. April 27 - August 11, 2013\. Pictured: Bad Ass, 1977. Joseph Szabo
Book. Mitch Epstein: New York Arbor. Steidl., Spring, 2013\. Pictured: American Elm, Central Park, New York, 2011. Mitch Epstein
Exhibition. Martin Parr: "Life's a Beach." Aperture, New York. May 2 - July 3, 2013\. Pictured: Italy. Lake Garda. Riva del Garda. 1999. Martin Parr—Magnum
Festival. Kyotographie International Photography Festival, Kyoto, Japan. Closes May 6, 2013\. Pictured: Nuit de Noel, 1963. Malick Sidibé
Exhibition. Sebastian Liste: "Urban Quilombo." Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, Wales. May 5 - June 16, 2013\. Pictured: A boy jumping from a building of the abandoned chocolate factory, on March 20, 2011 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Sebastian Liste
Book. Photojournalists On War: The Untold Stories from Iraq. University of Texas Press, May, 2013\. Pictured: In Saddam's hometown, a US Marine slides down a marble handrail in one of the dictator's extravagant palaces, Tikrit, April 14, 2003. Ashley Gilbertson—VII
Exhibition. Vanessa Winship: "She Dances on Jackson." Henri Cartier Bresson Foundation, Paris. May 15 - July 28, 2013\. Pictured: Birds Rising along the Mississippi river, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 27, 2012. Vanessa Winship
Exhibition. Richard Misrach: "On The Beach 2.0." Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York. May 4 - June 29, 2013\. Pictured: Untitled (Blackwater 3), 2012. Richard Misrach
Festival. Festival Image Singulière, Sète, France. May 8 - May 26 2013\. Book. Collection Image Singulière, Le Bec en L'air. May 2, 2013\. Pictured: Sète, France, November 17, 2012. Cédric Gerbehaye—Agence VU
Exhibition. "Elvis at 21, Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer." Fort Worth Museum, Forth Worth, Texas. Opening May 25, 2013\. Pictured: June 30, 1956\. Elvis with Bobbi Owens, backstage at the Mosque Theatre, Richmond, Virginia See more by Wertheimer Alfred Wertheimer
Exhibition. "XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography." The Museum of Modern Art, New York. May 10, 2013 - January 6, 2014\. Pictured: Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California. August 13, 1979 Stephen Shore
Exhibition. "Scenes from the South, 1936-2012." Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York. May 9 - June 1, 2013\. Pictured: Kentucky, 1972 William Gedney—Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery
Exhibition. "André Kertész: Truth and Distortion," Atlas Gallery, London. Closes May 25, 2013\. Pictured: ‘Distortion 147\. Paris, 1933. André Kertész
Exhibition. "Donald Weber: Interrogations," Foley Gallery, New York. Closes May 24, 2013\. Pictured: ‘Untitled (Interrogations). See more of Weber's series on LightBox Donald Weber—VII
Book. "Waits/Corbijn '77-'11". Schirmer/Mosel, May, 2013\. Pictured: California, Dillon Beach, 2002. Anton Corbijn
Exhibition. "Tim Hetherington: Sleeping Soldiers," International Center of Photography, New York. Closes May 13, 2013\. Pictured: Alcantara, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, 2008. Tim Hetherington, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Exhibition. "1963," Howard Greenberg Gallery., New York. May 9 - July 6, 2013\. Pictured: Commuters reading of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Carl Mydans—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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