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War Reporters Train in the Bronx, Complete With Blood, Smoke and Gunfire
An organization founded by friends of Tim Hetherington simulates real war-injury scenarios at the Bronx Documentary Center, complete with pools of blood, contorted limbs and frenetic movement amid...
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Sharp Shooters | Gorgeous Photos From the Front Lines of Outsourcing
When the Electrolux washing machine factory left Webster City, Iowa for Juarez, Mexico almost two years ago, it effectively knocked the town's middle class to its knees. A sizable portion of the town's...
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Sharp Shooters | Is It Legal Yet? Photos Show Farming Pot Is Pretty Much Like...
Many people see pot up close, but few have seen the illusive (and illegal) places where it comes from. That's why the photo project Grassland by H. Lee (a pseudonym) is a small, and timely, coup. Lee...
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Raw Meet | Photographs Are No Longer Things, They’re Experiences
Stephen Mayes argues that the rise of digital changed the very nature of photography by moving it from a fixed image to a fluid one. Photography is less about document or evidence and more about...
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Sharp Shooters | Machine Gun Expo Is Down-Home Americana Gone Ballistic
Whether your fancy is the M248 SAW or the FN M240B, which is the U.S. armed forces current-issue medium machine gun, there's a firearm for everyone at the Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot & Trade Show....
View ArticleSharp Shooters | Bare-Bones Photo Tour of London Squat Proves Content Is King
While flashy animations and interactions are fun to play with on the web, photographers don't always need to think big-budget to tell their story online. With just a little bit of HTML and jQuery,...
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Detailed Photos of Cold War Missile Sites: Opposing Superpowers, Same Terror
The idea that we are not so different from our enemies is one of the undercurrents of Justin Barton's photographs of former Cold War Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch sites. Graphically...
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Sharp Shooters | Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in...
In Rio de Janeiro the government has created an ambitious plan called "Pacification," which is designed to clean up that city's image by cutting down on the drug trafficking and violence in its...
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Sharp Shooters | Paranoid Dictator’s Communist-Era Bunkers Now a National...
In Albania, 750,000 Communist-era bunkers populate the landscape, relics of the paranoia and skewed priorities of former dictator Enver Hoxha. Now they exist as quirky homes, animal shelters, ad hoc...
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Sharp Shooters | If Your Photos Aren’t Good Enough, You’re Not Close Enough
Lisa Krantz, a staff photographer at the San Antonio Express-News, just won the Scripps Howard Award in photojournalism for the second time for a portfolio of pictures that shows the multiple...
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Sharp Shooters | Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo...
High above the Arizona desert in 2010, after a day of photographing housing developments, Christoph Gielen looked down from the helicopter upon Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence. The hexagonal...
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Sharp Shooters | This Incredibly Boring House Is a U.K. Terror Suspect’s...
Control Order House is the only existing photographic study of a residence occupied by a person under a UK control order.
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Sharp Shooters | Ego-Wrangling the World’s Most Powerful Leaders for a Portrait
The photographer Platon is famous for getting big personalities to open up in front of his camera. He's worked with many of the world's most eccentric leaders — Putin, Gaddafi, Ahmadinejad — but always...
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Best of the Beast | Keeping a Wolf at Home to Save the Species
Getting photos of wolves is difficult. It usually requires traveling into the farthest reaches of North America or other remote locations. But photographer Camille Seaman in San Francisco only needed...
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Sharp Shooters | One Small Town’s Fight to Banish a Brutal Mexican Cartel
Canadian photojournalist Brett Gundlock traveled to Cherán, Mexico last year to find out how things had changed for residents in that town after they confronted a violent Mexican cartel that had been...
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The Arting Life | Google’s Copyright Policy Spawns Mega-Meta Art From China
The Google Art Project allows art enthusiasts to visit distant museums online by scanning them with the same 15-lens camera rigs used by Google Street View. Due to copyright restrictions, however,...
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The Arting Life | Declassified Spy Outpost Lurks on the Dark Side of the Earth
In 2011 Charles Stankievech hitched a ride to the Earth's northernmost settlement, a Canadian spy facility that used to spy on the Russians during the Cold War. The time-lapse photos he made there are...
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Sharp Shooters | Photos Go Inside Controlled Emergencies to Quell Our Worst...
Marina Gadonneix is a French photographer who creates fictional scenes of catastrophe, drama and terror from real places. She visits fire and hazmat training facilities to document, in controlled...
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Sharp Shooters | Photos Go Inside Germany’s Disappearing Nuclear Power Plants
Germany has agreed to close all of their nuclear power plants by 2022, but before that happens, German photographer Michael Danner wanted to get in and photograph them. Between 2007 and 2011 he visited...
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Megachurches Use Elaborate Sets and Easy Parking to Amplify God’s Voice
Photographer Joe Johnson's series Megachurches takes us down the aisles, inside the sanctuaries and behind the scenes of jumbo-sized places of worship. Taken while the churches are not in daily use,...
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