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Terra: Brazil's Landless Movement
Sebastiao Salgado's essay on the life, times and political mobilization of Brazil's landless peasants. [Free registration at New York Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/specials/salgado/home/
Fast Forward
By Lauren Greenfield. VII photographer's penetrating look at youths growing up on both sides of the tracks in the shadow of Hollywood - also a book.
http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/lauren2/portada.html
Lake Street, USA
Six miles of photography by Wing Young Huie, shown on store fronts, bus-stops and as murals along Lake Street, Minneapolis.
http://lakestreetusa.walkerart.org
East Side Stories
Black and white photographs of Latino gang members in East Los Angeles by Joseph Rodriguez.
http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/rodriguez/default.html
2 Nashville
49 photos by Jerry Hall documenting Nashville's eccentric southern nature since 1997.
http://www.2nashville.com/
Cuba 90
B&W photography of Cuba by Pablo Cabado, showing the contradictions within at the end of the 20th century. Recently published as "Illustratives, Cuba, the 90s".
http://www.cuba90.com.ar
Arrested Images
Street photography of Tokyo, Japan by Canadian photographer Drew Cunningham.
http://www.arrestedimages.com
Schifanoia
By K.N. Chaudhuri, historian, writer, and artist who specialises in historical sites and presents through photo-texts and images a distinctive interpretation of landscape.
http://colophon.com/gallery/schifanoia/
The Other Life
5 images of Korean people and lifestyles by Park Chang Dai in black and white.
http://user.chollian.net/~gray18/
Berlin Mitte: Explorations of an Urban Conversion
Photography by Ulrich Wuest looking at the transformation of East Berlin after the fall of communism
http://uinic.de/berlin-mitte/en/index.html
Over the Roads
Photographs of Iran based on "Towards Ispahan" an Pierre Loti novel. Links to Loti's biography, articles and web-based books.
http://towardsesfahan.faribahi.com/into1.htm
Ashfactories
Fire as a cleansing agent and as society's post-industrial solution to the problem of death. By Juraj Lipscher.
http://webexhibits.org/ashfactories/
Israeli Documentary Photography
Traces the zealot religious groups that populate the Israeli landscape. By Ittai Bar-Joseph.
http://www.mousymedia.com/redemption
China's Yangtze
A strong series of images shot below the submersion levels of China's future Yangtze reservoir. By Bill Zorn.
http://www.billzorn.com/china/intro.shtml
Country Doctor
The famous photographic essay of W. Eugene Smith considered one of the finest photojournalist of the 20th century.
http://www.life.com/Life/essay/country_doctor/index.html
Grafted Tokyo
A few days through Tokyo: people and encounters, sounds and fragrances. Street photography by unknown photographer.
http://www.grafted.net/tokyo/
Absent Reality
Alejandro Jaimes-Larrarte's experience with WTC before the tragedy and the events in NY after the tragedy (not photographs of the event itself).
http://www.jaimes-larrarte.com/art/portfolios.html
Tibetans
An exhibition on Tibet by John Trewin.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scaryjohn/
Construction of the Gotthard tunnel, Switzerland
Panoramic reportage of the Gotthard tunnel building sites in Zurich and Sedrun (Switzerland). By Mark-Steffen Göwecke.
http://www.raumzeitfilter.de/tunnel_e.htm
American Pictures
By Jacob Holdt, who hitchhiked more than 100,000 miles throughout the USA in 5 years. A multi-media show since 1976, it has been a focus for the international media as well as human rights and anti-apartheid groups.
http://www.american-pictures.com/
American Skin
Nation united under a freak flag issue: American strippers, 19-year-olds' world of sex for sale, Alabama drag queens, motel life and a personal journal by Tyler Ondine Whitman.
http://www.theamericanskin.com/
Apriori: Carol Polakoff
A 1976 photo journey across Russia and a 1996 retrospective.
http://www.gyoza.com/apriori/
Artdotnet, A Web-Art Project
Experimental photo stories. First in the series is "Les Filles de Derb Dabachi" by Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, in French and English. [Requires Shockwave]
http://www.artdotnet.com
The Documentary Photograph: Running For The Prize
By Sheldon J. Potter. The 1996 campaign for Tim Sandos, Democratic candidate for Denver, Colorado's US Congressional District 1.
http://www.essential-connect.com/essential_image/gallery/
Friends Of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures
Photo journal of industrial structures in the Los Angeles area with commentary and observations. By Greg Ercolano.
http://www.3dsite.com/people/erco/fovicks/
Gary Walts: Photographs of my Father
A photo story documenting the years leading up to his father's suicide. [Requires Shockwave]
http://www.sightphoto.com/sightphoto/story/dad/frameset.html
Shattered 9/12/2001
Photographs of the WTC attack aftermath by award-winning photojournalist James Nachtwey.
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered/index.html
Shadows on the Street
B&W street photography of Zaragoza by Spanish photographer Alfonso de Castro.
http://www.terra.es/personal6/alfondc/
Crios del Sur - Argentina las Villas 2001
B&W photography of Buenos Aires and San Juan (Argentina), by Spanish photographer Alfonso de Castro.
http://www.terra.es/personal5/alfonkl/
Perros Del Sur
Dogs in Argentina, Brazil and Chile by the photographer Alfonso de Castro.
http://www.terra.es/personal5/alfondog/
Urban Anthropology
Contemporary urban environments in St. Louis, Missouri and Asbury Park, New Jersey. Pinhole camera images by Lisa A. Johnston.
http://www.aeternus.com/urban/
Holding Ground under Water
On China's Three Gorges Dam and its effects on the environment and people of the Yangtze River Basin. By Ben Sandler.
http://www.holdingground.com
Farwell to Bosnia
By Gilles Peress, a member of Magnum Photos. Monochrome images taken over a 4-month period in 1993, now a book as well as a traveling exhibition.
http://www.pictureprojects.com/bosnia.html
Social Landscape
Critical interpretation of contemporary U.S. society and culture. By Gerald John Davey in both monochrome and colour.
http://www.social-landscape-photo.com
In Transit
Interviews and photographs of people on buses in San Francisco. By Clarke Robinson.
http://www.geocities.com/~intransit1
Hope Revisited
Ten years ago, Hope, a small Kansas country town was struggling to preserve its way of life. A look back since then. Story by Nancy Mays, photos by Keith Mays.
http://sightphoto.com/sightphoto/story/hope/
Leros
Alex Majoli's disturbing account of the gradual improvements in Greece's most notorious mental asylum.
http://www.cestino.it/leros/gallery-ing.html
Truth and Reconciliation
Jillian Edelstein's medium format pictures from several years of South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
http://www.red-top.com/files/edelstein/index.html
Still Training
Seamus Murphy's award-winning story on war torn Sierra Leone's Olympic hopefuls.
http://www.reportage.org/2001/SierraLeoneM/PagesSLM/slmstrip.html
Side-ways
This photo-site of Beer Clement contains snaphots from travels by car through Europe, all taken through the car window
http://home-1.tiscali.nl/~wr4226/side-ways/index.html
Afghanistan
Chris Steele Perkins's pictures from Afganistan in the 1990s, also published as a book and touring exhibition.
http://www.kiad.ac.uk/gallery/afghan-notes/htmlhome.html
Day and Night of Dimmed Stars
A black and white photographic essay on the extinguished neon lights of Warsaw.
http://free.art.pl/neon_lights
Soccer in Liberia by Tim Hetherington
Tim Hetherington looks at soccer in a Liberia recovering from civil war.
http://www.foto8.com/issue05/liberiasoc01.html
Inferno
James Nachtwey's disturbing images of war in the 90s from Chechnya to Rwanda.
http://www.salon.com/people/portfolio/2000/04/10/inferno/index.html
Prostitutes of La Merced
Maya Goded's medium format work on Mexican prostitutes.
http://www.smithfund.org/goded.html
Soviets - Shepard Sherbell
Major project on the end of the Soviet era, from religion to work to punishment
http://www.sovietsbook.com/photos.html
Athos
Photography by Zbigniew Kosc of monasteries and monks of Mount Athos, Greece.
http://home-l2.tiscali.nl/~kosc/
Spotfire Images: Photojournal of Fighting Wildfire
Photo-essays of wildland firefighting, including smokejumping and hot shot crews. By Alaska Smokejumper and photographer Mike McMillan.
http://www.spotfireimages.com/
Dangerous Sports Club
The 1980s was a time when eccentric upper class Brits braved the ski slopes in grand pianos. Dafydd Jones was on hand to capture it for Tatler.
http://www.dafjones.com/main/dsc/dsc01.htm
Looking for the Light
The last decade of the AIDS crisis photographed by well-known New York photographer Scott Thode. Co-published with the New York Times.
http://www.journale.com/aidsdecade
The Lost Border, Photographs of the Iron Curtain
By Brian Rose, documenting the landscape of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall in 1985; the dismantling of the Wall at the end of 1989; and the subsequent changes in the border zone, particularly at Potsdamer Platz.
http://www.brianrose.com/lostborder.htm
The New Americans
Exploring Watsonville, (strawberry capital of the world, one of dozens of migrant Meccas in California) from the migrant perspective. Story by Ruben Martinez, photography by Joseph Rodriguez.
http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/road/road.html
PhotogJoe's
Non-fiction about urban life and international travel by a professional photographer cum community activist.
http://joemjoe.com
Soundings
An exploration of the meaning of music through stories about musicians in the State of Missouri since 1997. By Ingrid Young.
http://sightphoto.com/sightphoto/soundings/soundings.html
Children of Eastern Europe
Of children living in orphanages and psychiatric hospitals in Russia and Moldova, and who have gone underground in Bucharest, Romania. By Northstar Gallery.
http://northstargallery.com/pages/RussiaIndex.htm
Modern Ruins
Discover the roots of our place in history, through an archaeology of our culture. By Shaun O'Boyle.
http://oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm
The Rebirth of Ground Zero
Of construction in the area where the WTC stood (known as Ground Zero) over the months. By Newsday.com.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-wtcphotos0519.photogallery
The Pigeon Train
2 photo essays in Korean and English: the Pigeon Train, and soldiers on the northern frontier of South Korea (untitled). By Lee Jin Hong.
http://members.tripod.com/leejinhong/
The Angel of the North
By Tim Constable. Images made during a trip home to Newcastle. An attempt to capture both the size of the sculpture and the reaction of people to it.
http://www.ticopics.freeserve.co.uk/pages/angel.htm
Love, Light, Life
3 images and a theme by Bernard Mendoza.
http://www.mendozaphotography.com
Behind The Stonewall
5 essays on US Civil War battlefields Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Manassas, Gettysburg and Chickamauga.
http://www.jatruck.com/stonewall/
Carpet People of India
Sponsored by the STEP Foundation Switzerland, which works for fair conditions in carpet trade. By Adrian Moser.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/2400/carpet.htm
Saturday Night
By Deborah Wian Whitehouse documenting the 'Saturday Night' experience across America. Selections from the series are in private and public collections.
http://www.artshow.com/whitehouse/saturdaynight/index.html
American Families: Beyond the White Picket Fence
By Courteney Coolidge, exploring the lives of ten families across the United States at the dawn of the new millennium.
http://www.10families.com
Vietnam Postcards
Vietnamese culture and lifestyle by Filipino photographer Claro Cortes.
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/ClaroCortes/
Chanukah in Prague
Roma children in Eastern Europe, Jewish Holocaust survivors, Iran and Rio de Janeiro photo essays by Ben Eden.
http://www.beneden.com
A Mendel Photo Essay
Photographs of places associated with the life of Gregor Mendel (born 1822), Abbot of the Augustinian convent in Brno. By Simon Mawer.
http://www.simonmawer.com/Photopage.htm
Full Frame Images
B&W decisive moment/documentary photographs of life in Worcester, Massachusetts (1969-1981). Included are images from various locations in the US. By Robert M Johnson.
http://www.fullframeimages.com
As Long As We Both Shall Live
An ongoing essay depicting long-married couples in America. By Robert Fass.
http://home.earthlink.net/~robertfass/
Fish Camp; A Living Legend in a Vanishing Frontier
Large format photography documenting life at two closely related fish camps along St. John's River near Osteen, Florida. By Carl Gillette.
http://www.deltaimage.com/
Photos of Taiwan in the 1950s
By Frederick Foley, who taught English and traveled around the island with his camera.
http://www.usfca.edu/ricci/foley/
Mexican Community in New York City
Photographer Mary Teresa Giancoli documents the rituals, festivals and foods of the Mexican community in New York City.
http://www.biddingtons.com/content/creativegiancoli.html
Shore Thing
Images of the New Jersey Boardwalk 1975-85 by Mike Morizio.
http://members.aol.com/mmorizio/index.html
ARTCOUP2 / Belgrade
Two weeks in Belgrade, in black and white, by Boogie. Requires Flash.
http://www.artcoup2.com
Brothers in Arms
Elena de la Vega looks at FARC guerrillas favourite passtime: soccer.
http://www.footballissimo.com/delavega/
Last Call: Faces of Alcoholism
A portrait of alcoholism by photographer Mark Peterson, featuring residents of the Queens nursing home in Minneapolis. [requires Shockwave]
http://www.time.com/time/alcoholism/index.html
Havana Mia
Black and white photo essay presenting Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte's personal perspective on Havana, Cuba.
http://www.time.com/time/reports/cuba/index.html
Scott Carrier: From Afghanistan
A photo-audio-essay, with excerpts from Harper's magazine article: "After the Fall, Letters from Afghanistan" (April 2002).
http://www.hearingvoices.com/sc/afghan/index.html
The Holy Week in Sicily
"Settimana Santa in Sicilia". Photography by Maurizio Distefano, narration in English and Italian.
http://utenti.lycos.it/mauriziodistefano/enter.html
Evaporated Milk
A photo essay and story with over thirty photos about the declining number of family dairy farmers in Northern New England.
http://www.photojournalistas.com/Sept-Oct_2002/Evaporated_Milk/Evaported_Milk_Index.html
Post-Card
This site uses the postcard as a vehicle to transmit images that would never appear on real postcards. These photo essays present cities as experienced by someone who acknowledges her/himself as a partial observer.
http://www.post-cards.org
Cuba: Tomorrow in Question
E. Wright Ledbetter investigates and interprets contemporary Cuban culture.
http://www.ewrightledbetter.com/
Women They Left Behind
A photo essay on women survivors of the Vietnam War, these are mothers, wives, daughters and sister of those killed in the Vietnam War.
http://www.handheldmagazine.com/issue%20two/newpage/Projects/projectPowell1.html
Kims gallery
Photographs of people in Seoul, Korea. Includes small story, gallery and Leica M story.
http://www.lok21.x-y.net
End of an Era
Images of Hick Hargreaves and Company, Bolton, England, over 170 years, and a brief history of the company.
http://www.geocities.com/loftybwfc/
The Adventure Continues
Photographic compilation and diary journal of the 2001 re-creation of the historic London to Sydney Air Race.
http://www.adventurecontinues.com
Navajo Art
Navajo indian culture and history in pictures. Earl Waggoner lived on the Navajo Indian Reservations in the 1950s and recordered the culture of the Nation among dramatic panoramic views of the Southwest.
http://artsales.com/ARTists/earl_waggoner/
100 images
Photographs and essays from Bosnia, Croatia, Romania, Rwanda, and the UK by Glasgow amateur photographer Chris Leslie.
http://www.100images.co.uk
World War II - The Photos Tell
Images from World War II's Holocaust and the history behind several well-known images. By Louis Bülow.
http://www.auschwitz.dk/story/
Silent Wall
Photographic journal of Germany between 1930 to 1945, the Krepost Sveaborg, and areas around Helsinki. Also provides timelines of the Winter and Continuation Wars.
http://www.kolumbus.fi/silentwall/
Akbar Nazemi
Purchasing information for photos and images of Iran Revolution.
http://www.iranrevolution.com/
40 Weeks Photography
Documents pregnancy, birth, babies, families and all things precious by Valerie and Jenifer.
http://www.40weeksphotography.com
Trent Parke
B&W images of Sydney's seafront by Trent Parke of Magnum.
http://www.in-public.com/trentparke/portfolio/index.php
Rwanda 2004
Photo essay by Chris Leslie documenting stories of Rwandans 10 years after the genocide.
http://www.rwanda2004.co.uk
Samuel's Spina Bifida Surgery In Utero
Miraculous photograph of a twenty-one week old fetus reaching out of his mother's womb to grasp the hand of his surgeon.
http://www.michaelclancy.com
Town Meeting: Democracy By The People
In-depth story, accompanied by over twenty photos, about the town meeting form of government.
http://www.photojournalistas.com/Sept_Oct_2003/Town_Meeting/Town_Meeting_Index.html
Clergy Girls
Carolyn Coles photos of life at 25 Clergy Street West.
http://www.imagestation.com/member/?name=carolyncoles
The Boys of Ramallah
Jean Garup follows a group of Palestinian kids from school to stone-throwing to home.
http://www.poyi.org/59/winners.html
AfghanPix.com
Detailed photo essay covering the civil war and the daily life of Afghans, by Alexander Merkushev.
http://www.afghanpix.com/
The Refugee Project
A photography project undertaken by documentary photographer Bikem Ekberzade on the lives of refugees and IDPs. The project is currently open for grants and sponsorships.
http://www.geocities.com/the_refugee_project
The Lord of the Flies
An examination of violence amongst former child combatants in Africa by Stuart Freedman.
http://www.red-top.com/files/freedman/index.html
Fellow Traveller
Of protests in the UK, Mexico and India. Photographs of Grass Root Protest
http://weasel2k.no-ip.org/ft/
Streets of Osaka 1996-97
A personal view of the street life in this city.
http://www.subjectivite.net
Hutong Photography
A portfolio of photographs of Beijing's hutongs by the photographer Iain Masterton
http://www.hutongphotography.com
New York Changing
Berenice Abbott's Changing New York project with the identical camera, at the same time of day and year, showing the city's evolution over 65 years.
http://www.nychanging.com
FotoFestival Naarden
Photo essay about a photo festival in Holland.
http://www.efn.org/~hkrieger/fotofest.htm
The Photo Documentary Press
Black and white photo essays and documentary work with passion. Specializing in editorial assignments, portraits, weddings, and fine art books.
http://photodocumentarypress.com
Motion Capture
Ongoing photographic record and reflection on the transitional moments experienced using public transport.
http://uk.geocities.com/motion_capture
Waiting for my angel
A project in photo's and text about youth culture in The Netherlands in the year 2000.
http://home.hetnet.nl/~igloiglo/go/engel/noflash.html
The Silent Harvest
A documentary photography project about the disappearance of the family farm in the Central Valley of California.
http://www.agtraditions.com
9-11 Images
Photographic journey through the aftermath of 9-11, the heroes, the missing and the mourning, in memory of those who died.
http://www.9-11images.com
Typical Litter
An ongoing photo essay on the pervasiveness and beauty of trash.
http://www.typical-litter.com
Around the World in a Viewfinder
A selection of photo essays by Jean-Philippe Soule to present various Native Cultures.
http://www.jpsviewfinder.com/documentary/
Sands Hotel
Pictures and photo essay of the last day the historic Las Vegas Sands Hotel and Casino.
http://www.socala.com/sands/
Faces of Iran
"Faces of Iran: from the kingdom of Persepolis to a state of Islam" is a photo essay on today's Iran by the Documentary photographer Bikem Ekberzade.
http://www.geocities.com/bikem71/ExIran
Kurdistan photographs
Features photographs of Kurdistan (Turkey) people, landscape and history by Zbigniew Kosc.
http://members.ams.chello.nl/zkosc/Kurdistan%20main%20page/kurdistan.html
Indochine
Photographs from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and thailand by the documentary photographer Bikem Ekberzade.
http://www.geocities.com/bikem71/indochine
Stories from the Old South
A collection of photographs from the three southern states, by documentary photographer Bikem Ekberzade.
http://www.geocities.com/bikem71/South
Slices of America
Taylor Lasseigne's album of photos from around the U.S. and Canada.
http://www.slicesofamerica.com
Iceledo
This site contains photos of a small area of the Arkansas Ozarks called Iceledo. These are seasonal photos of streams and woodlands taken during the late 1970's by Willie Weeks.
http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/iceledo/
New York City Lightning
20 year photo essay of lightning flashes striking Empire State Building, United Nations, 59th Street Bridge and other Manhattan landmarks by Greg Geffner.
http://www.pippareist.com/nylightning/index.html
Met State Hospital Photographs
Pictures taken of the abandoned mental hospital in Waltham, Met State.
http://www.geocities.com/metstate0/
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