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talks & interviews
How to Capture an Intimate History
For Jane Evelyn Atwood, who has photographed sex workers and prisoners, it’s all about the balance between intuition and occasion.
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The Pain and Pleasure of Queer Life in Egypt
Mahmoud Khaled considers the legacy of the “Cairo 52,” the men who were arrested in 2001 at a gay-friendly nightclub.
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In Iran, Images of a Dystopian Water Crisis
Hashem Shakeri’s pastel-hued, otherworldly photographs depict a landscape on the verge of destruction.
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Pixy Liao Straddles the Male and Female Gaze
In her playful, collaborative photographs, the Chinese photographer upends the meaning of “muse.”
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For This Young Photographer, A “Simple Song” of Images
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.’s photographs capture the private moments hiding in our everyday, public lives.
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A Filmmaker’s Journeys Across the African Diaspora
Throughout his career, photographs and family narratives have been at the center of Thomas Allen Harris’s films.
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Who Can Tell the Story of an Indigenous Community?
Twenty years after his first visit to New Zealand, photographer Martin Toft makes a photobook about—and for—the Māori.
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Looking Back at the New Romantics
A British photographer’s fashion-forward family pictures.
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A Surrogate for Love
What can the doll community tell us about relationships today?
