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Photo Credit: Max Lovy   It was raining the morning of October 6, 1973—the day before my eighth birthday, and the day of the Yom Kippur War—so they put a…

Photo Credit: Benjamin M. Johnson   This is not a meditation on cannibalism or its function as “last taboo” but a direct translation of my kidneys, which are the shape…

1 Meeting I have frequented a myriad of gyms for over a decade, and never have I been so immediately struck by another patron as I was by Houdah Abotteen…

Image credit: Oh My Disney Twenty years ago, in the summer of 1997, McDonalds released a series of plastic plates to go with their Happy Meals, plates with the likes…

Do you have a fence around your house A wall marking the borders of your yard A gate to enter the premises How many doors locks alarms Is it your…

Image Credit: Liat Berdugo, Hat Credit: Lee Tusman   Often we work with holes. In understanding. Often set out without knowing where. Often distrust narratives. Never need struggle over the…

Rachel McLeod Kaminer: Monice! So there’s this movie coming out, Detroit, and I’m immediately hearing criticism from my little corner of the internet. I haven’t seen it. Neither have you.…

Francis Alÿs The Fabiola Project at The Menil Collection on exhibit through May 13, 2018 Scramble for the Past The Stones Talk book Editor: İlkay Baliç Design: Esen Karol 216…

As a filmmaker, journalist, and film programmer, I attend festivals all the time. Sometimes one of my films is playing; sometimes I’m there to review films. The most recent festival…

I don’t know if it’s because of living on an island, but water has always been a source of inspiration for me. As a result of this, I have always…

An arm raised may be asking a question, may be calling a cab, may be the up arc before the downswing of a conductor’s baton or a police baton, before…

“My Plastic People” is my most ambitious and personal project so far. It has become an essential part of my identity as a street photographer and as an artist. These…

What I know about grief, but what I choose to ignore until it becomes relevant, is that sometimes take a shower, brush your hair, put on make-up, get dressed become…

Newsha Tavakolian’s album, Look (2013), can be viewed as the culmination of the developmental process her photographic language had to undergo under the restrictive politics of Iran. The students’ uprising…