Neil Harris

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.