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Summer Songs of the Russian Riviera

Rob Hornstra is one of photography's pioneers of crowdfunding and self-publishing. His latest book is on the restaurant singers of Russia's favorite Black Sea resort town of Sochi. The series just won first place for the Arts and Entertainment—Stories category at the World Press Photo awards.

By Neil Harris

The Founding Fathers of Video Games

The mad geniuses behind many of the most iconic video games of the 70s and 80s are reuniting to rethink and maybe even reinvent video gaming.

By Neil Harris

Living with the Past in Liberia

As Liberia inaugurates Nobel Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to her second term as president today, photographer Glenna Gordon reflects on how the West African nation continues to grapple with its complicated past.

By Neil Harris

If You Smoke Cigarettes in Public: Prostitution in Morocco

The winners of the 20th Lange-Taylor prize, photographer Tiana Markova-Gold and writer Sarah Dohrmann, share an exclusive sneak peek of their project on sex workers in the nation.

By Neil Harris

Joel Meyerowitz: Ground Zero, Then and Now

Joel Meyerowitz sat down for an interview with TIME after his most recent shoot for our Commemorative 9/11 issue to reflect on a decade of documenting Ground Zero.

By Neil Harris

Data Visualization: Twitter Portraits by Lori Hepner

Artist Lori Hepner has devised an ingenious and mesmerizing approach to the representation of identity in the age of digital social media — in her ongoing series Status Symbols, she makes portraits of individual posts on Twitter.

By Neil Harris

Picturing the American Drought: George Steinmetz

As renowned aerial photographer George Steinmetz documented the effects of the recent record-setting drought in the American South, he discovered that even in driest parts of the country, the cliched idea of the bowl of cracked earth and dust was neither common nor representative of the crisis.

By Neil Harris

Travels Through Islam: Moros y Cristianos

There may be no more curious remnant of the Muslim kingdom that Ibn Battuta knew as al-Andalus than the festival of Moros y Cristianos—Moors and Christians.

By Neil Harris

Animals Are Outside Today

Photographer Colleen Plumb's new monograph Animals Are Outside Today reflects on the complicated and often contradictory relationships between animals and human beings.

By Neil Harris

Corey Arnold's Fish Work

Corey Arnold always knew he would work as a fisherman. In his surreal photographs made over months at sea, he is as much participant as observer.

By Neil Harris

Fotokonbit: Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands

Some of best images at this year's LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph were not made by professionals, but by amateurs — participants in "social photography workshops" in Haiti run by the non-profit organization Fotokonbit.

By Neil Harris

Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945

Rare, once-classified U.S. government photographs of the aftermath of atomic bombing of Hiroshima make up a new exhibit at the International Center of Photography called Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945. These post-apocalyptic pictures had a profound effect on civil defense architecture during the Cold War, but only now can their historical significance, emotional power, and tragic beauty be appreciated.

By Neil Harris

Opening: JAPAN/now at Fovea

Fovea Exhibitions, is marking its fourth anniversary with a new show called JAPAN/now, opening Saturday, May 15. The show brings together work by more than twenty photojournalists who covered the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan and its aftermath. Fovea will be collecting donations for the Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund.

By Neil Harris

Terribly Beautiful: Industrial Pollution Seen From Above

A year after the oil spill in the Gulf, a new book and exhibit by photographer J Henry Fair remind us that spectacular scenes of industry's assault on the natural environment are not the exception but the rule.

By Neil Harris

Behind the Photos: the Attempted Assassination of President Reagan Revisited

On March 30, 1981, AP photographer Ron Edmonds made pictures of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that would earn him the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. On the 30th anniversary, he talked to LightBox about the story behind the pictures.

By Neil Harris

Joel Meyerowitz Revisits Ground Zero

TIME commissioned legendary photographer Joel Meyerowitz to return to Ground Zero in the fall of 2010 in order to explore the changes to the site and re-examine some of the historic scenes he had photographed in the wake of 9/11.

By Neil Harris
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