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# Sara Distin

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## Sara Distin


## Sara Distin


* ![From <i>iii</i>](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4ce6711cd09aa36/6987e69aa988caddad6afabd/71.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 6, 2014  
### [Paper, Ping Pong and Spilled Milk: Robin Maddock's Absurdist California Portraits](https://time.com/3809138/paper-ping-pong-and-spilled-milk-robin-maddocks-absurdist-california-portraits/)  
Photographer Robin Maddock spent a couple of years walking around California with a 35 mm camera and...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![untitled9](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf456c5d211fcc882/6987e7412dce01edb99e0e6a/001_markdorf_path_untitled9.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 1, 2014  
### [Mark Dorf's Photographic Dreamscapes](https://time.com/3809084/photographic-dreamscapes/)  
Mark Dorf blends landscape photographs with collage, 3D renderings and 3D scans to create stunning s...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Kachalka-Muscle-Beach-Ukraine](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b259560a0fad773/6987e654cd684824a209cff3/pressebild-10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 1, 2014  
### [Muscle Beach: Pumping Iron in Ukraine](https://time.com/3808248/ukraine-bodybuilders/)  
The Ukrainian weightlifters in Kirill Golovchenko’s photographs make even the burliest Crossfitters ...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The Winners](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9973d626f86a2513/6987e4e63c16394929454cde/iam_00036398_resize.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 11, 2014  
### [Portraits of the Winners, the Best and Better in Belarus](https://time.com/81022/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 th...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The Buriganga River gave life to Dhaka and Dhaka destroyed it. Chemical agents such as hexavalent chromium, mercury, sulphuric acid, formaldehyde, toluene, cadmium, chromium acetate are responsible for the death of the Buriganga River and for thousands of cases of severe intoxication, often with fatal consequences for the people who work or live in the surrounding areas.  South Dhaka, Bangladesh](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7dcceba57132114/6987a7ce8e060114e745d490/iug_1893.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 20, 2014  
### [Life on a 'Death River' in Bangladesh](https://time.com/3806311/life-on-a-death-river-in-bangladesh/)  
The Buriganga River gave life to Dhaka, and Dhaka killed it. Photographer Ugo Borga documents the hu...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
* ![From Michael Galinsky's <i>Malls Across America</i>, Steidl 2013.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt45f55e9f3878e724/6987e4325f570f1d9ab18636/035_galinsky.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 26, 2013  
### [Flashback to the Timeless Malls of the 1980s](https://time.com/3805133/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 ins...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![<i>Crowd #4 \(New Haven\),</i> 2013](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36858ba806c9661f/69868d1af983e7cc7104d901/2013_ap_crowd_4_new_haven_press_cut.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 19, 2013  
### [Staging Reality: Alex Prager's Timeless Faces in the Crowd](https://time.com/3804431/staging-reality-alex-pragers-timeless-faces-in-the-crowd/)  
Prager's colorful, elaborately staged photographs of crowds, on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art,...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Alex Atala, René Redzepi and David Chang in the lake at Nyoda Girls Camp in Oak Ridge, N.J., on October 11, 2013.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd36f83b425dbb84/6987e3ba06f2c1ed33336e27/1000_lb_food_1105.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 7, 2013  
### [Behind the Scenes: Martin Schoeller Shoots (and Eats!) with Three Famous Chefs](https://time.com/3803831/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 D...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Dom Raja, Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2013](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59d54ae24db79752/69868cb5cd804db33bcca8ae/varanasiburningghatdom.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 30, 2013  
### [Life and Death in Varanasi: Portraits From the Banks of a Sacred River](https://time.com/3803629/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 h...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Actor Benedict Cumberbatch photographed at TIME, New York, Oct. 11, 2013.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf2ae7efc4b8e63bc/6987a7cb524fc0408fdef55e/resized-for-lb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 17, 2013  
### [Go Behind the Scenes with Benedict Cumberbatch](https://time.com/3803253/go-behind-the-scenes-with-benedict-cumberbatch/)  
In a quick and collaborative shoot for TIME, photographer Paola Kudacki caught a break in Benedict C...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)

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