The Benin is a small west African democratic state, and home of Voodoo which was declared an official religion in the former French colony in the...

Cameroon has an extremely high infant and child mortality rate: almost one out of eight children dies before reaching the fifth year of life. Children die for...

There are more than seven million registered vehicles in Los Angeles County, California/USA. Images of traffic jams are omnipresent. But where do all those cars go...

Many engaged couples in China have become interested in kitsch wedding photographs. Young couples go to photography studios to realise their souvenir album that...

On April 26, 1986 at 1:23 am, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant blew up after operators botched a safety test, triggering the world's worst nuclear disaster to...

As Xin Jinping and a new Politburo take over the reigns of the Chinese Communist Party, the biggest socioeconomic issues at stake now revolve around urban...

Our Land Cruiser bumping to a halt, five white rhino heave into view. The animals ignore us and carry on munching the shrubbery – we are downwind and these...

The hot, Spanish plain of Castile - La Mancha, where Don Quixote tilted at windmills, is home to a new kind of mirage. The city of Seseña, the 'Manhattan of...

Regular winner of those polls for the 'World's Most Beautiful Islands,' the Lofoten Islands off Norway's northern coast seem to have all the clichés: empty, white...

"I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do." Garry Winogrand My project Women are...

Xapuri is the city where political and environmental activist Chico Mendes lived until his murder in 1988. His struggle caught the attention of international...

To be a teenager is to be both beautiful and fragile simultaneously. Puberty engenders a radical physical transformation and psychological contradiction: it...

“An ancestral prophecy related that one day a gigantic snake would come and swallow up the whole Surui people while devastating all on its way. In 1968, the Surui...

The Bolschoi theatre recently opened after 6 years of renovation, it has now formed the backdrop to a major drama. On January 17th 2012, Sergei Filin, 42 years old,...

Since 2007, foreign investment in Batumi, a city on the Black Sea coast of Georgia, has exceeded $100 million per year, resulting in a dramatically changed skyline....

Exploring female sexuality and contemporary representations of women. The series 'Cam Girls' is a collaboration between myself and the women who earn a living...

Circled by forest, the Upper Napo could be an island in the midst of a continent, with the river and its tributaries as sole communication channel. On the main stem...

China's grand development plans continue to grow at an unrelenting pace. Too much is at stake to slow down such a gargantuan economic force, even as cracks appear...

Deer stalking in Scotland is steeped in history. Wild red deer, referred to as 'beasts', have been managed for sport and food in Scotland for centuries. There is no...

I have always had a passion for maps. What probably fascinates me the most about these instruments are the lines that determine what is in and what is out. Borders...

My work seeks to comprehend what it means to be locked and to be looking at such a person. My work almost always takes the form of portraits and I usually...

Twins occur normally once in every 80 pregnancies.  Here, however, one in five pregnancies typically results in twins – 20% of the population, most with blond...

Haiti’s Ministry of Tourism is desperately trying to change the image of the Caribbean island in order to attract visitors to what used to be a jet-set hangout...

One out of every three american women soldiers serving in Iraq or Afghanistan has been the victim of sexual abuse on the part of male U.S. soldiers and between 71%...

Black Maps includes the projects Black Maps, The Forest, The Mining Project, The Lake Project, Oblivion, Terminal Mirage and American Mine. Black Maps is the...

If you google Lady Gaga you will get almost 800 million results. Teenage fans in Jakarta adore Justin Bieber, in the same way as in Medellin and Seattle. Lindsay...

In 2012 the major Polish river Vistula reached the lowest water level in history. The story investigates 30km river run in its Warsaw part. All objects, people and...

The ad, plastered in the subway in the sixties, showed an African-American boy eating a rye sandwich: YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE JEWISH TO LOVE LEVY’S. If you were...

Quidditch, the sport for the wizards and witches invented in the Harry Potter book series. Two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, and using four...

Each year, large crowds of people, dressed as Santa Claus, gather in cities around the world for one day to spread the cheer of the season. Named SantaCon in most...

The images in this series are an attempt to capture human stories in everyday life, those that exist in the space between the odd and the...

Dozhd (meaning 'Rain') is a Russian independent television channel targeting the youth market. The channel owned by Natalya Sindeyeva was created in April 2010...

updated: November 2012 It's a late night in the Brejnev district in Kiev, we are meeting at the 29b building. "Call me before, I will come down". She opens the...

The state of Israel is a relatively new phenomenon. A memory of the long history of Jewish exile and persecution and the short turbulent history of the Jewish state...

Moscow area, Russia, 2008-2012 Pastoral is an idea of a perfect world, where people integrate with nature as its necessary part. With this documentary project I...

I was hired by New York Magazine to photograph the range of homeschooling families in New York City. The reasons these families chose to homeschool their children...

Hansel and Gretel continues where Lee+Ives left off in Alice’s Birthday, furthering their interest in teenage fantasy, Gothic fairy tale and ethereal fashion....

The series TANKS was shot at the Brooklyn Aquarium in 2012. It portrays children looking into aquarium tanks that house walruses, seals, sharks, jelly fish and...

As the world’s most populous country of 1.4 billion people, mainland China is home to one in five of all the women on our planet. From rice farmers to...

Last year the Javan rhinoceros, the rarest large mammal in the world, was declared extinct in Vietnam. The last one was killed in October in Cat Tien National Park,...

An endangered species of people Liquid Land is a collective portrait of communities living dangerously among the oil spills and industrial ruin of the Absheron...

China, 2011 This series explores contemporary Chinese landscape linking it with shan shui tradition. Shan shui, the Chinese word for landscape, is a compound...

In 1997 Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev single-handedly declared that the country’s capital would move to a small town he renamed Astana. Built with...

The Little League World Series held annually in Williamsport, Pennsylvania is an international baseball tournament held for players between the ages of 11 and 13,...

Every Night in Vegas “The best club, ever,” is how revelers inside the Marquee Las Vegas nightclub describe the 60,000 square foot pleasure dome that...

At the border crossing of Akcakale, between Syria and Turkey, two opposite currents briefly meet in the midst of the cacophony of taxi drivers, immigration police...

Six Paralympian hopefuls photographed for the Telegraph Magazine, each with extraordinary stories: -Danielle Brown (Archery) who shoots from a stool because her...

In the 1820's, Titian R. Peale needed a solution for viewing his butterfly collection, without touching or damaging the delicate specimens. The result was the...

The Queen of Versailles tells the story of a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. The photo essay and interviews...

These portraits are part of an ongoing body of work focused on the annual Jouvert(Caribbean Carnival) festivities held in Brooklyn, New York. click to view...

Commissioned by Kate Edwards at the Guardian Weekend magazine and photographed in numerous makeshift studios across the UK, from squash courts to gymnasiums and...

Crystalline waters and fine white sands? Nope. Wildlife, nature, and huts on the beach? Not even close. According to conventional wisdom, the tourist draw of Rimini...

Situated on the eastern side of the United Arab Emirates, Fujairah is unique in it's location; the other seven Emirates border the Persian Gulf on the...

Stories of 100 couchsurfers around the world Photos and Texts by Gabriele Galimberti CouchSurfing is the act of trading hospitality, practiced by the over 2...

dOCUMENTA13 opened on June 9, 2012 in Kassel, Germany. It is the world’s most important exhibition of modern and contemporary art, showcasing the most renowned...

To most people, Miami’s South Beach is best known as one of the most decadent entertainment destinations in America, with hundreds of nightclubs, restaurants,...

Cuba is opening up to the private sector. What used to be a four-letter word in the socialist island has now become a necessity. Strangled by the American embargo...

Coptic Christians in Egypt number more than 10,000,000, making them the largest (religious) minority group in the country, one that has become more a target for...

His name is Igor, he is the chief of the ultra supporters of Kiev. He is student in psychology. His name is Igor, he is the chief of the ultra supporters of Kiev....

No stuffy reception desk greets you at the entrance of YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California. Instead, you are more likely to run into a playful,...

Dallas, Texas, USA. Many trophy hunters use the term ‘harvesting’ rather than killing. Those hunters portrayed here have dedicated the larger part of...

The project “Zompi” by Gabriele Galimberti is extraordinary. First of all, because in the age of Internet and Photoshop Gabriele could have easily created all...

Riverboom’s Gabriele Galimberti pays homage to all the grandmothers in the world and to their love for good cooking, starting from his own very Tuscan grandmother...

If Riverboom’s photographer Gabriele Galimberti had happened to shoot me, aged 6 and surrounded by my favorite toys, he would have seen the following: plastic...

Kate's portrait commissions can be seen regularly on the pages of Guardian Weekend, The Telegraph and The Independent New Review. Shown here is small selection...

“To do the Ring” is an Icelandic expression that generally refers to travels on Route 1, the highway that encircles the country. To travel this road is...

They pull at the black tarpaulin surrounding the stand. They try to peek inside. They tell other voyeurs not to look there but look here. They are told to move!....

"The more I tried to understand Russia, the more lost I became. Russia is like a planet of its own." Rafał Milach Gala, Lena, Stas, Mira, Vasya, Sasha, and...

Within the last few years the number of Polish hunters going out for safari has been constantly growing. Not everybody can afford this expensive hobby and not...

In northern Kazakhstan, a futuristic city has risen from the forsaken landscape and post-Soviet rubble. In 1997 President Nazarbayev had declared that the...

Last year, a 16 year-old schoolgirl was killed by a gunshot fired through the window of a fast food restaurant in Hackney. The gunman, 21 years old and riding a...

London a city of contrasts, as the rich poor divide grows ever wider, fans of Charles Dickens celebrate his 200th birthday. What would the great author think of...

The fertile Ukraine – Hitler dreamt of it but it fell prey to Stalin. It was him and the likes who planted this land. They did what they could. They are long gone...

The project has just turned 21! Zed Nelson began this project in the summer of 1991. The wife of a friend was nine months pregnant, and he had an idea –...

A dilapidated neighborhood in the city’s center, the main street of Tarlabasi runs parallel to Istiklal Prospect, Istanbul’s cosmopolitan artery. If, by walking...

In 1986, DNA testing was first used by an English scientist to help exonerate a man accused of raping and killing two teenage girls. Since then, DNA testing has...

The city of Erbil in Kurdish northern Iraq might be the oldest city on earth. So seriously do they take this history, that when the regional government began...

Most references to Haiti mention the Caribbean nation's dubious honor of being "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere." But few have ever heard about...

Alice’s Birthday is the product of lee+ives a collaboration of photographer Jocelyn Lee and creative director Sonia Ives. Staged as a blend of gothic fairytale,...

The Occupied Wall Street movement began this past summer when the magazine Adbusters put out a call to Americans to occupy Wall Street on September 17th. At first...

From the Greek myth of Narcissus to classical Greek and Roman sculptures, male vanity has historically been present in many forms. Grecians created myths to signify...

I have always been interested in the portrayal of women in society, women’s roles and how these have changed over time, as well as sexual stereotyping. I’m...

Africa's largest country has officially split in two. The Republic of South Sudan is the world's newest nation, achieving independence on July 9th, 2011 following...

The baby or career dilemma is being revolutionized with the development of new reproductive technology that allows women to have children at an ever increasing age....

After a four-year, $380 million refurbishment, the National Museum of China finally opened it’s doors to the public as the largest exhibition space on the planet,...

More than 50 percent of Haitians are illiterate, and only 25 percent have regular access to electricity. That means most Haitians do not read the country’s only...

“If Weegee’s iconic photographs of beachgoers focused on the crowds / in his shots, 1960s sunbathers outnumbered grains of sand on Coney Island – Mr....

A flurry of feathers, faux eyelashes, fake hair and “flippers” (fake teeth worn to perfect that pageant smile) surround the toddler pageant hopefuls and their...

The Death of the Celtic Tiger and the Rise of the Ghost Estates Photographer Lauren Greenfield recently photographed the Ghost Estates and other devastating...

In her hand was a bow, and a quiver of arrows Hung gracefully by her side. Said Sir Robin Hood, “Lady Fair, whither away ? Oh wither fair lady, away?” She...

The tastemakers, a series of London-based art collectors who purchase work every year from Frieze, London’s most prominent art fair. click to view complete set...

The ‘ditch’ is dead! According to Michael Wylie-Harris writing for The Times back in 2006! And while it may be true that most of the YBA’s (Young British...

Everything about South African Rugby is harsher and more physical than the rugby of the rest of the World. The ground is harder, the conditions more challenging,...

As the Chinese Communist Party prepares to celebrate it's 90th anniversary on July 1, nationalistic tourists are flocking in droves to communist heritage sites...

The Empty Chinese Metropolis The arid landscape around Ordos was never a forgiving place. Its remoteness and lack of ground water always kept growth in check....

Located in a valley along the border with the troubled territory of Burma/Myanmar, Elephants Nature Park (ENP) in Chiang-Mai, Thailand is a tourist-accessible...

From June 4th to 11th, the poet Javier Sicilia organized a march for the peace called the "consolation caravan". Fourteen buses and around 30 cars crossed over 3000...

Prypiat was a city of 30,000 residents, located just 3 kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The city was built to house the workers of the power...

As a one party socialist state until 1992, Tanzania barred foreign investors and prevented the development of a modern mining industry. By the time the country was...

Moscow, Russia 2009-2010 The author is exploring the very notion of border, of dividing line – both mental and real. This is the border between suburbs and...

Murmansk region, Russia, 2006-2009 Murmansk is the world's biggest town behind Arctic circle. Each winter it's 300 000 inhabitants experience the night that...

In 2010, Yann Gross won the Prix du Jury at the Festival d’Hyères. In 2011, he returned to exhibit the results of a commission from the Festival to present the...

As new cities continue to spring up across China almost overnight, real estate developers are taking architecture and urban design in wildly different directions to...

John Burke was one of the first people to take photographs of Afghanistan, having travelled there during the second Anglo-Afghan war of 1878 to 1880. As history...

April 26, 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. At 1:23 am, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s Reactor #4 blew up after operators botched a...

Robert Clark documents the long, curious, extravagant evolution of feathers. If feathers did not first evolve for flight, then what was their purpose? click to...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which is in charge of collecting the $2.2 billion for the Chernobyl cleanup and the construction of the...

It’s very unusual that images from the Middle East make us smile, particularly ones concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But Edoardo Delille manages to...

Indonesian hardcore is back. A growing number of youth, disaffected by high rates of unemployment and conservative social mores, are returning to hardcore musical...

While television audiences watch the nightly news of the unfolding nuclear tragedy in Japan, others are experiencing the aftermath of nuclear disaster firsthand....

Children often fancy far-fetched comparisons: which is stronger, an elephant or a whale? Which is uglier, a brontosaurus or a rhino? Who is older, Noah or my daddy?...

There is a city in Russia that only lives to the rhythm of Gazprom, one of the world's largest energy companies. It is located in Novy Ourengoy, Northern Siberia,...

Signs of life is an ongoing landscape project documenting those spaces both associated with, and also in the same way disassociated with, signs of human life in all...

To the people watching from home, the Grammy’s appear to be one night of glamour and glitz. To the celebrities and artists who are invited and nominated, the...

Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis built the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration and death camps in the town of Oswiecim. There, more than 900,000 people were...

(Ship Builders, Boxers, World War II Veterans, Cornish Fisherman, Yorkshire Miners, Foxhunters) Disappearing Britain is a historical project that focuses on...

Lifesize targets used to condition American hunters for the African Safari, Texas, USA. click to view the complete set in the archive

International vacations are a must for the burgeoning group of nouveau riche across China. A well-used passport is a sure sign of fulfilling a “modern” and...

The Empty Temple of Consumerism A local billionaire built it, and they did not come. The South China Mall was the most ambitious and largest retail space every...

'He neither stirred nor fell, but every line of his body had altered. He looked suddenly stricken, shrunken, immensely old, as though the frightful impact of the...

Out of a request to produce a series of images on the theme ‘there’s no such thing as an original idea’, Peters' series ‘An Original Reproduction’ was...

Pelepele community forest, Kokstad, South Africa. The forest at Pelepele has reached the end of it's 10 year cycle and the most mature timber is harvested by the...

In 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear station exploded, the Soviet and Ukrainian authorities decided to designate a forbidden zone around the contaminated area. The...

Everybody knows Prypat, the ghost town, but nobody knows about Poliske, the second biggest agglomeration of the Chernobyl's forbidden zone. This city, built in the...

After traveling a long track gnawed by water and branches, we arrive to a tiny village with ruins and bumpy ways. A slave market was here in the 13th century. The...

I saw two shooting stars last night, I wished on them – but they were only satellites. It's wrong to wish on space hardware, but I wish, I wish I wish you'd...

Pripyat was a city of 30,000 residents, located just 3 kilometers away from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It was evacuated just one day after the nuclear...

Moscow bears the historical stigma of a brooding city fringed with murder, corruption and greed. Now these grim trappings of the Russian psyche have found a home...

Dogs have stuck by our sides for centuries, as hard workers, playful companions, and loyal confidants. In fact, the relationship between dogs and us goes back...

The Epiphany, celebrated in Russia on January 19. It marks the baptism of Jesus in the Orthodox Church calendar and according to tradition, the baptism of Jesus in...

Tourism in Crimea is almost as old as tourism itself. Throughout its history, the Crimea was conquered numerous times, with occupying powers not only valuing its...

Lauren Greenfield photographed eight personalities sharing their favorite qualities about their eclectic homes. Rapper and music producer, Will.I.Am, views his home...

In the townships of South Africa boxing is common place, in the cities it's become the sport of choice for the young professionals from all walks of life who train...

Russia, 2006-2008 Less than one person per square kilometer is an average population of Russia’s outmost regions in which this project was made. click to view...

As anybody in the fashion industry will tell you, style is not a matter of opinion. And Haitians have style to sell. For those intrepid enough to go beyond the...

Heavy monsoon rains across many areas of Pakistan have left a wake of destruction and human misery. The swollen Indus, Chenab and Sutlej rivers have all burst...

The Crimea is a diamond shaped peninsula suspended from the south of Ukraine and surrounded by the Black Sea, on the same latitude as the south of France....

The Crimean Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group residing in present day Ukraine. They have a tragic history: after being falsely accused of collaborating with Nazi...

Lighting Up The Night As the 2010 Shanghai World Expo comes to a close at the end of October, it might be largely remembered for its long cues and predominantly...

Exhibition cases from the museums Natural History Collections Department The Quagga, an equine beast of the arid southern Africa grasslands that was hunted to...

Diorama's from the museums Natural History Collections Department, Cape Town. These displays use a tilted plane to represent what would otherwise be a level...

This series of portraits is part of an ongoing project documenting the game hunting industry in Sub Saharan Africa. During the early 20th century, the tourist...

“Full Circle” documents the struggle and pride of Istanbul’s transgender community. With a rising conservatism and more publicly expressed intolerance toward...

The first signs of the Chernobyl nuclear accident of April 26, 1986 were detected in Sweden two days later, after a cloud of radioactive fallout from the explosion...

Seen from the top floors of its banks offices, it does not seem to be a country where many parents still prize boys over girls and where the female literacy rate is...

Reverie And Leisure in Communist China The Water Cube on Beijing’s Olympic Green is easily one of the most enthralling aquatic centers on the planet. Its...

History’s Shadow comprises my series of re-photographed x-rays of art objects from antiquity. I have culled these x-rays from the archives of the Getty Museum and...

Kitintale is the name of a working-class suburb of Kampala in Uganda. One day in April of 2006, Jackson Muribu began construction work on his field in Kitintale....

What happens to weapons of war when they are no longer useful for their original purposes? Those that are not scrapped often are given second lives in the public...

Selena Gomez is the latest to emerge from Disney’s tween superstar creation machine. With Disney’s synergistic multiplatform approach, those who pop out of the...

Circus used to be one of the most popular mass entertainments of communist time in Poland. Artists who performed in the circus at the time were heroes beloved by...

Hunting the Hippo, Campfire Programme, Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Historically rural Africans have relied on plentiful supplies of game animals for meat, clothing...

In Ukraine, Cossackdom represents cultural and historical heritage as traditional Ukrainian culture is often tied in with the Cossacks. However, Crimean Cossacks...

Chongqing remains the biggest city you've never heard of. Situated at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers, it is the fastest growing urban center in...

The Russian Fleet has been operating in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea since the late 18th century. Since then the principal base of the Russian Black Sea...

Zed Nelson traveled the length of the Rio Grande river from Colorado to the Mexico border, through a part of America that is increasingly right wing, armed and...

In Yemen, Al Qaeda may have found the perfect combination of tribal hospitality, political chaos and military opportunity. Is this the next Afghanistan? This was...

INSTITUTE artist James Longley has been documenting everyday life on the overcrowded bustling urban streets in Lahore and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. click to view the...

Fall/Winter 2010/2011 Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week features some of the most fabulous—and strange—couture creations of our time. Fashion houses Christian...

On May 10th residents of some 20 villages along the Kura River in Azerbaijian had to flee from the floods caused by heavy rains that increased the water level in...

Justine Musk, 37, is the Canadian-born writer of the dark urban fantasy novels BloodAngel, Uninvited, and Lord of Bones. In some quarters, she is equally well known...

As the World Cup comes to a close this weekend with an all European final. INSTITUTE artist Matthew Niederhauser takes a look over some of the stadiums that...

There is a new group of young doctors that don’t define themselves as “abortion doctors,” they try to make the procedure part of their broader medical...

Royal Opera House, London. Stung by charges of elitism and eager to expand its audience, the Royal Opera House has given its production of Carmen the Avatar...

Soviet era industrialisation program and mostly petroleum-related production created an environmental crisis both in the Caspian Sea and onshore in Baku,...

In 2010, Robert Clark and National Geographic were given exclusive access to document and photograph the intricate autopsy of a 5,300-year-old mummified body known...

Japan's Ghost Island It was a coal mine, a paradise for its habitants, but since its closure in 1974, Hashima is become a forbidden place. Hashima Island,...

April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explodes and highly contaminates the region around it. A perimeter of 30 kilometers is delineated. It is what we now...

Gulou, one of the last and best preserved hutong neighborhoods in Beijing, is currently slated for redevelopment by the Beijing municipal government and local...

Strakholessie, the riviera of Chernobyl. Since some years, Strakholessie a little city located just 200 meters from the Chernobyl's forbidden zone, is becoming a...

QUOTATION FROM THE IMMORTAL PRESIDENT HAFEZ AL-ASSAD« You have fought glorious battles in the October War, and later in the Golan War as well as in all battles and...

Russia - A phoenix rising from the ashes of a broken empire. Twenty years ago, on December 27th 1991, the Soviet Union vanished into the pages of history books....

For the past 2.5 million years, man and his primate predecessors have been obsessed with gadgets. Sophistication and a keen sense of mastery defines tool-making...

What could be naively described as a hipster transformation is taking place in Beijing. Although some may only dress the part, others are the first in China to...

IKEA With China's burgeoning consumer market in its sights, Ikea opened its single largest outlet in Beijing three years ago. The increasingly materialistic...

Faithful friends of Switzerland, this project wants to tell the story of the unique visual match between Switzerland and the rest of the world. Red Rivella flows in...

On January 12th 2010, moments after the earthquake, thousands of dazed Haitians raised their hands to the heavens. Prayer and religious songs broke the silence of...

In 2007 we first visited a refugee centre in Tbilisi, where we interviewed Georgians who had fled from Abkhazia during the war in 1992-1993. An estimated 250,000...

The series 'Truly a real country' is part of our new book ‘Empty Land Promised Land Forbidden Land’ about the apocalyptic-looking country of...

Cars are quickly becoming the most hypersexualized and sought after commodity in China. Purchases already surged 45% last year, surpassing the US with 13.6 million...

In the last few years, ‘drones’ have become synonymous with modern warfare. Impersonal, efficient, and deadly. Used for either surprise attack or invisible,...

In 2009, just over 36-million tourists doled out an average of $93 for a hotel room along The Strip, the epicenter of all things vice in Las Vegas, Nevada. But for...

BioRe Tanzania Ltd was founded in 1994 and currently buys organically grown cotton from over 2000 cotton growers in the Meatu district, northern Tanzania. Meatu is...

Who were the people of Nasca? What can be gathered from the plethora of topographical artwork this 2,000-year-old civilization left behind? These photographs taken...

Muvhimiwe Nzou (Elephant Hunter) Chitsa 'Campfire' area, adjacent to The Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe.. Local villagers fall upon the body of a dead...

Blenheim Palace near Oxford - one of the greatest of England's stately homes - was a gift from a grateful nation to a General, John Churchill, 1st ,Duke of...

Diamond Mining, Botswana. click to view the complete set in the archive

Chatsworth House, possibly England's greatest stately home has been home to the Cavendish family, otherwise known as the Dukes of Devonshire, since Bess of Hardwick...

Whether classified as landscapes, portraits or nudes, Jocelyn Lee's photographs poignantly capture beauty and humanity's fragile nature. Her images of the natural...

Twenty-four years after the disaster, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the burial grounds of military equipments in Ukraine are now being pillaged. Each week,...

Acclaimed home-grown INSTITUTE artist Jodi Bieber has created an open-ended essay which is a celebration and a portrait of life in Soweto today. The importance...

“Win or lose, we’re going to drink ALL of this booze!” proclaimed Tim Lucas, a tailgater from Austin, Texas, who painted his face and dressed himself head to...

Travelling Shearers, Eastern Cape, South Africa. This is a group I meet on a remote farm whilst travelling through the Eastern Cape, they move from farm to farm...

In her photographs for New York Magazine’s Special Issue, “Look”, Lauren Greenfield documents a face of fashion where grit and glamour coexist fabulously. The...

The majority of Oakland’s fire service is made up of women, a staggering contrast from the 0.6% population of female firefighters nationwide. In Oakland’s Fire...

Sometime in the early 1990's the first packets of cocaine drifted to shore on the Caribbean coast which included the village of Tasbapauni. At first villages...

In the wild, every female cougar has a cub, from which she never strays far. In the city, cougars have high-powered careers and salon appointments, so sometimes...

Spanish-born supermodel Esther Canadas models '60's style space-age fashions in urban, "post-apocalyptic" settings- a sewage plant, a power plant, a factory, a...

Paige Williams, 42, was overwhelmed with financial problems and burdened with stress. She lost her writing job and ended up $100,000 in debt, causing her to lose...

On May 9, 2010 Russia celebrated the 65th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War (WWII). Between June 22, 1941 and May 9, 1945 more than 26 million...

With the prices of basic food commodities going through the roof, companies and nation-states are going to extraordinary lengths to ensure the security of their...

The two open-air reservoirs in the Silver Lake community of Los Angeles, California comprise two concrete-lined basins. Divided by a spillway, the upper section is...

In 2005, when President Ahmadinejad was elected, I started a project on the Iranian society. I felt that with the arrival of this populist and extremist president,...

In Russia, more and more people join « youth organizations », with friendly slogans and huge fairs. But under the so called spontaneity, everything seems to bear...

In the quest to retain youth, accomplished middle-aged professionals say that rocking out to classic songs is a preferable alternative to “buying a new car or...

‘Love Me’ reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty. Over a period of five years INSTITUTE artist...

With its cannabis coffee shops, tolerance for homosexuality, and legalization of prostitution, the city of Amsterdam has long been a place to put liberal ideals...

Presidential candidate John Kerry barnstorms through New York, Ohio, and California on the 2004 campaign trail. With the entourage of secret service he requested...

In this series of portraits, supermodel Tyra Banks dons hip-hop clothes and lots of "bling-bling" (a newly added word to the Webster's dictionary meaning diamonds...

Guilty Pleasures is a fashion portfolio featuring real showgirls in quintessential Las Vegas locales. From all-you-can-eat buffets, to replicas of the Eiffel Tower...

For their prom, eight seniors from South Central L.A. got the full Oscar treatment, right down to the guy who did Renee Zellweger's hair. click to view the...

Alyn Libman always felt different. The other girls played with Barbies and dress-up games; Alyn wanted to climb trees. The big problem came at potty break, when...

Israel is a surprisingly tiny country. If one were to travel every inch of the nations land and sea borders, after 732 miles you would end up back on the same spot,...

The iconic royal retreat of Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes is a testament to the precision stone cutting and remarkable building skills of the Inca. But what is...

The coastal strip on the Black Sea around the subtropical resort of Sochi (Russia) has for decades been famous for its sanatoria. During the Soviet era, millions of...

First decade into the 21st century, Khinaliq, because of its remoteness, still managed to preserve its ancient way of life. There is no running water but the stream...

The story of Dubai, a small desert emirate in the Persian Gulf, reads more like an improbable fairy tale than an engineered plan. After six-years of impossible...

In May 2009 Herbaut traveled to Iran a few days before the presidential elections. Apart from fatigue of the population facing the policy of President Mahmoud...

Ridley Road Market in Hackney, East London is a prime example of the multiculturalism that exists within a city such as London. When it was established in the...

Opening his private collection of masterpieces to the Los Angeles art world, philanthropist and fine art collector Eli Broad hosted an exclusive dinner party at his...

Why do we choose to approach the most cutting-edge computer technologies of our brave new world using the language and concepts of cavemen. We talk of loading data...

While most kids were whining for allowances and shopping at the mall, Austin Visschedyk, 16, was busy photographing celebrities and marketing his images since the...

The island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea has a name which derives from the Sanskrit meaning 'Island of Bliss,' yet it is thought of today as one of the loneliest...

Prypiat was a city of 30,000 residents, located just 3 kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It was evacuated just one day after the nuclear...

Twilight Iran is a portrait of Iran during the two years prior to the 2009 presidential elections. Iranian society is well-known for leading a double life - the...

The Swedish city of Kiruna, 180km north of the Arctic Circle and 100km from it's nearest neighbor, needs it's iron mine desperately, it is the town's main...

When white collar husbands are incarcerated for fraud, it’s the bejeweled wives that are left behind to tend the hearth, stem the society gossip, resuscitate the...

Amy Poehler, 37, is the main character of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation”, which debuted in April 2009, and films in Studio City, California. The show, a weekly...

This work is a small selection from a commission undertaken Men's Health USA documenting the work of Doug Steinberg, director of Save the Children, Angola. In...

In the shadow of the war between Georgia and Russia last August, a small war is still playing out. With Russian support Abkhazia captured the officially...

The world revealed in series: ten options, one best. Baechtold’s Best is a different kind of picture book. Images replace detailed descriptions and long-winded...

Beijing's Music Underground A new wave of Chinese musicians is taking Beijing by storm. Revolving around four venues spread across the city, this burgeoning group...

For decades Moscow was a city devoid of vibrancy and individualistic opportunities -- as well as excessive poverty. Not any more. Russia's warp-speed economic...

My images take the form of portraits and focus on visual contrasts. I find people to be the perfect subjects for me to investigate as they possess contrasting...

The world revealed in series: ten options, one best. Baechtold’s Best is a different kind of picture book. Images replace detailed descriptions and long-winded...

A sixth grade basketball phenom in Federal Way, Wash. (outside Seattle), Allonzo Trier, 13, is nationally ranked #1 in his age division. He demonstrates according...

After being driven underground by Soviet rule for nearly 80 years, the Russian Orthodox Church has been resurrected and is rapidly being restored to its former...

After several years of prosperous growth and a major housing boom, the Inland Empire has become emblematic of the recent economic crisis, giving it the name...

Thirty miles west of Reno, Nevada (one of two US states to legalize prostitution), at 69 Moonlite Road, the Moonlite Bunny Ranch is located at the intersection of...

Umkhwetha, a Xhosa initiate into manhood. When winter makes its first hint of arrival at the Cape, then Xhosa boys prepare themselves to become men. They...

In 1844 Winsford Rock Salt Mine was opened, and is claimed by its operator, Salt Union Ltd., to be Britain's oldest working mine. It produces all of Britain's rock...

Evolution images shows the diversity and complexity of evolution over time. Images of specimens from Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace show the physical...

As Pastor Mark Driscoll says, he is not the “weepy worship dude” he associates with liberal churches. Instead, clergy at the Mars Hill Church in Seattle’s hip...

La Montaña is home to 80% of the Guerrero indigenous people. They are marginalized and poor, and have scant access to basic services like education and healthcare....

After the conflict in Georgia and Ossetia, Crimea holds its breath. Territory along the Black Sea, depending on Ukraine, Crimea is predominantly Russian, and would...

Falling on Parallel Worlds Photography is not about fact or truth; but it is about a causal relationship between light, subject and receptive material. Light...

A month before the November 2008 election, Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain and his suite of advisors swept through six states for...

To quench its thirst for oil, its hunger for copper, uranium, and wood, the government in Beijing is sending Chinese state companies and adventurous entrepreneurs...

The mountains are the icons of Switzerland. To reach some of these idyllic places, it is necessary to drive through the Rhône Plain. However, only a few people are...

Opening cash registers and unfurling welcome mats in May 2008, the Americana at Brand in Glendale, CA is a mixed-use urban design experiment that blends...

The Greeks called it Persepolis, today it is Takht-e Jamshid; but to its ancient Persian builders, so central was it their idea of who they were, they called it...

In the 16th century the Persian Shah Abbas the great made the city of Isfahan his capital and filled it with parks, libraries, palaces and mosques that dazzled the...

A visual documentation of the 2008 conflict in Georgia after a Russian invasion. click to view the complete set in the archive

RainbowVision, the first gay retirement community in the U.S, opened in 2006. Located in arts-happy Santa Fe, New Mexico, RainbowVision’s 146 living units sold...

In April 2009, the documentary “Anvil! The Story of Anvil!” premiered. At the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Anvil frontman Steve "Lips" Kudlow, 52,...

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) consists of 700 million barrels of crude oil in underground storage facilities along the Gulf coast of Texas and...

Each year at the end of June, many evenings of graduation take place in Russia. All Russian students get dressed up to officially say goodbye to childhood....

Beijing's Urban Oasis Located in the heart of Beijing's central business district, just north of the newly completed CCTV Tower, Tuanjiehu Park easily takes the...

An unlikely group of people in Oakland, California chants "I do not consent to this search. I am going to remain silent. I want to see a lawyer." While they're...

This is a story about a place where holding hands in public is punishable and the sight of a woman smoking is cause for arrest, where being different, whether it is...

This project is an extension of a Dove billboard advertising campaign in London showing ordinary women in their underwear advocating and speaking up for Real...

The use of skin-whitening bleaching creams to lighten complexions has reached epidemic proportions in Senegal, despite widespread education campaigns about the...

For several years now, Norfolk's work has been an exploration of the Sublime in the landscape; those sights whose boundless beauty is countervailed by feelings of...

Helen Ma is synonymous with Hong Kong fashion and society. A socialite with a fashion sense that pairs ornate riding boots with sequined Chanel hotpants, Ma is...

Tyra Banks, 34, is an anomaly in her industry: she’s posed on TV in an unflattering bathing suit, dressed in rags to pose as a homeless person, and played...

Biomimetics is a portfolio of images that takes a look at the bond between nature and engineering science. Life on earth has evolved and adapted to it's...

For decades Moscow was a capital city devoid of vibrancy, self-expression and individualistic opportunities. Not any more. Russia's warp-speed economic...

Snaking 1,700 kilometres through five conflict zones, in the shadow of the Caucasus mountains, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline manoeuvres through a delicate...

Riverboom’s Claude Baechtold went for a four weeks journey to Siorapaluk, the most northern village in the world. There he reorganized the Inuit world into visual...

Located in Kemerevo region of western Siberia, Kuznetskiy coal basin (short Kuzbass), possessing an estimated 725 billion tones of coal over an area of 70,000...

A gilded, bombastic manifestation of the American ideal of the self-made man, Limo Bob owes his reinvented identity to determination and decadence, qualities...

On 15th December 2010, for his 103rd birthday the legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer will be receiving the Spanish Gold Medal of the Fine Arts from the...

Toxic City It is a dark city surrounded by a mountain eaten away by acid rains. La Oroya, 3800 meters high, located 175 kilometers far from Lima in Peru, is...

The Black District Of Liverpool While downtown Liverpool is changing drastically to become the capital of European culture Toxteth district seems to be...

In the middle of the Nevada desert, in a town called Pahrump, Former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss, 41, now lives among a menagerie of exotic parrots. “If...

He gives you an appointment in the North of St. Petersburg, on a dark square, facing an abandoned movie theatre, a place where one usually doesn’t like to linger....

Club Libby Lu is a young girl’s playground, full of make-up, accessories, and all the accoutrements needed to be a diva for a day. Club Libby Lu was recently...

"We are a team, on equal footing! No woman in this world should stand behind her man." California First Lady Maria Shriver, 52, speaks from personal experience;...

Under Vladimir Putins rule, Russia has reclaimed its position among the superpowers of the world in the past eight years, the economic recession and the tumultuous...

The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. Peters, whose work often explores representations of reality, was drawn to the park,...

"Scholars have long puzzled over the Maya civilization's rise to glory and fall to ruin. The latest thinking is that a man named Fire Is Born made the Maya great....

Brazilian Cane Cutters documents the intense physical labor and extreme working conditions behind the development of Ethanol alcohol for fuel in Sao Paulo. The...

'Yet to this day, countless photographers traverse this strange landscape (The American West), mining it not for minerals or prophecies of a utopian future, but for...

Once associated with banishment and desolation, Siberia has now become Mother Russia's best hope for reclaiming her seat as a world power. All because of gas and...

House of Happiness documents family and cultural rituals in the traditional society of Ferghana Valley, a post-Soviet melting pot of Central Asian ethnicities that...

Bog Bodies from the Iron Age in Northern Europe. Over the past centuries, remains of many hundreds of bodies have been discovered while harvesting peat. This...

Once a cold, foreboding region in Western Siberia, now the Khanty-Mansiysk Oblast is experiencing unprecedented wealth and development. Oil explorations in the...

The roots of these landscape photographs reach back to Gerd Ludwig’s childhood experiences. After WWII, his family was expelled to a small village in the...

Donatella Versace, 52, Creative Director of the Versace Group receives a Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award along with her late brother Gianni Versace, who was...

The privileged youth of Milan look and act remarkably and shockingly like "fast-forward" American youth. 14-year olds dress seductively, stay out all night in...

As production gets cheaper in mainland China, the threat of competition to western economies grows. But for one Tuscan city, Chinese laborers exported to Italy are...

Karl Marx is the founder of scientific socialism and his ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. His philosophy is generally referred to as...

Extra television host Dayna Devon, 37, received plastic surgery from her husband, Dr. Brent Moelleken, 47, a renowned Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. Five years ago,...

Return Of The Amazons Katerina Tarnouska is a thirty year old blonde with a ponytail, wearing a white dress. "Time has come to get separated from the men", she...

Ramzan Kadyrov, 30, son of former president Akhmad Kadyrov who was killed in May 2004 in a bombing, and protected by Putin, has just been officially elected...

Hair is becoming more and more repulsive in our society. Ad campaign present physical beauty as being free of hair. However, in some parts of Switzerland, the...

For six years and counting, the lucky children of Curitiba, a city in southern Brazil, gather together on Saturday mornings at the main downtown shopping area for...

Think Los Angeles takes a backseat to New York? Not a chance. Hot young actors like Amy Smart and creative minds like the Weitz brother, on the road to fame, are...

In the documentary short film kids + money, Lauren Greenfield returns to her native Los Angeles to take the cultural temperature of a generation imprinted by...

The expansive modernization and economic growth generated by Russia's oil and gas industry have been a blessing for most of the Khanty-Mansiysk region's 1.5 million...

Since 1993, about 400 women were murdered in monstrous conditions in Ciudad Juarez. Juarez is the fourth city of Mexico and counts 1.5 million inhabitants. It is...

In Ladakh, a region in northern India, winding around the Himalayan town of Leh, are some of the most dangerous roads in the world. Steep drops and tight bends with...

Life in a cobweb of Cairo's alleys and corners: from the City of the Dead, the legendary expanse of cemeteries, where ghosts roam the streets at night. People...

Jackie Warner, 38, is the star of her own reality show “Work Out” on Bravo and the owner of the exclusive gym, Sky Sport & Spa in Beverly Hills, California. A...

Scientists said on Thursday they recorded particles travelling faster than light - a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's fundamental laws of the...

Controversial rapper Snoop Dogg spends most of his time as of late promoting his album, smoking marijuana, and getting arrested on drug and weapons charges. There...

Meet the Ben-Gals – the elite group of women who cheer for the NFL football team, the Cincinnati Bengals. An unexpected ensemble of women, including a...

There are now more than 10,000 spas and beauty salons for teens and preteens in the United States. SpahhhT, a spa designed for kids in San Antonio, Texas, caters...

Jay Jones, a 62-year old Oklahoman who had a net worth between 500 million and 1 billion dollars, conspired to defraud investors and is paying the price. An...

Soy una raya en el mar. Its hard for an outsider to fathom why, when George Bush is fighting a life and death struggle with Islamic ‘terrorism,’ he should...

Dr. Robesrt Ersek, a plastic surgeon and the self-proclaimed “biggest fat-sucker in Texas” removed 35 pounds of fat from Brooke Bates, now 13, believed to be...

Its hard for an outsider to fathom why, when George Bush is fighting a life and death struggle with Islamic ‘terrorism,’ he should divert billions of dollars...

The world revealed in series: ten options, one best. Baechtold’s Best is a different kind of picture project. Images replace detailed descriptions and...

"It's funny to think of it now, but there was a time when I couldn't afford to spend 500 dollars on shoes" Aizel Gusseinova, Businesswomen. Russia is still on its...

In West Hollywood, there is a new crop of feminine lesbians, unafraid of lip gloss and short skirts; the hip L.A. homosexuals who look like they could change a flat...

His name is Moulyava Volodymyr Stavych and he is 68. He welcomes me in his apartment in Kiev wearing a long moustache and a traditional hat, holding a steel hammer...

Las Vegas issues approximately twelve to fourteen thousand marriage licenses a month. On Valentines Day alone three to four thousand are issued. Nevada laws allows...

Library of Dust depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of a patient from a state-run psychiatric hospital. The patients died...

Three sisters in Los Angeles go under the knife for breast augmentation... all on the same day. Mary, 23, decided she wanted implants too after her two older...

Newport Harbor High School is the reference for 'Harbor High', the school that is featured in the The O.C., Fox TV’s drama about teenage life in affluent Orange...

Krumping, a high energy, clowning dance style, was first pioneered by Thomas Johnson, a.k.a. Tommy the Clown, at kids' birthday parties in neighborhoods around...

Q. Why was French society thrown into existential doubt in 1738 by a duck, and what has that to do with making better nuclear weapons? The answer is that the...

THIN is a photographic essay and a documentary film about the treatment of eating disorders. In 1997, while on assignment for Time, Greenfield began documenting the...

Since 1990, young women disapear along Highway 16, a road crossing British Columbia, a wild region of mountains and forests, on hundreds of kilometers. It has been...

For the past six years, I have worked in Valais, Switzerland, with mountain guides and researchers who trigger avalanches with dynamite in order to prevent...

This work examines issues of fear, safety and liberty in post-9/11 America. INSTITUTE artist Paul Shambroom has photographed facilities, equipment and personnel...

Socotra is an Island in the Indian Ocean that is part of Yemen. It is one of the earth’s most isolated landforms. It has been inaccessible till recent to...

April 26, 1986: Block N 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes. A 30 kilometer zone around the reactor is evacuated, including Pripiat, the city built to...

In 2005 , I came back to Chernobyl's Zone. I wanted to see how the contaminated area had changed since my first trip in 2001. Strange region, which magnetizes you....

Political science professor Wally Bacon, 59, walked into his University of Nebraska classroom last August as a changed person - a woman by the name of Meredith....

Martha’s back! After serving time in prison she has made a monumental comeback. Ms. Stewart is “remodeling” her career with her prime-time NBC television...

In its nearly 60 years of existence, the almost constant state of war in Israel has had a remarkable effect on the shape of the landscape. Today, almost every...

A Town, A Team And A Dream Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high school...

Capitalism and consumerism have found a new home with the Chinese elite. China’s upper class has shown a growing interest in designer brands, luxury cars, country...

Staci Flood, one of thousands of Hollywood hopefuls, has been on the verge of stardom since she was a teenager. Countless auditions and gigs have left her on the...

Cuddle Parties claim to be non-sexual events where adults get together for safe, playful interaction. Cuddle parties began in New York in 2004 as way for adults to...

While the devastating reports about the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests and the role of Pope Benedict XVI in this crisis have prompted sharp...

In South Africa: One woman is killed every six days by her intimate partner. One woman is raped every 26 seconds. One out of four women is beaten regularly by...

In the past twenty years, the fishing industry in Iceland has changed thoroughly. A system of quotas was introduced determining the amount of fish that is allowed...

On April 26, 1986 at 1:23 am, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant blew up after operators botched a safety test, triggering the world's worst nuclear disaster to...

The war in Bosnia in the 1990's was in many ways innovative. It raised to common currency the terms 'ethnic cleansing,' and ' humanitarian intervention;' it brought...

On Monday, August 6, 1945, the US bomber, named “Bock’s Car”, dropped the first US A-bomb on Hiroshima. The acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in...

Three days after the first US A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the US bomber, named "Bock's Car", was scheduled to drop a second A-bomb on Japan. That day, the city...

Tummy tucks, nose jobs, facelifts, breast reductions, testicular implants,and cosmetic dentistry — it sounds like the programming for Nip and Tuck,the popular...

Strange though it may seem, Gander Airport in eastern Canada's Newfoundland was once the most important airport in the world. On the route between New York and...

An unusual view point on some of the world's movie productions. Norfolk wanted to capture the entire mise-en-scène: the whole theatre that goes into movie making....

Commercial center “Excalibur City” at the Austrian-Czech border was opened in 1993. It used to be one of the biggest duty free zones in the region. After EU...

Terminal Mirage is an aerial survey of the Great Salt Lake and its environs, a surreal, apocalyptic, and strangely beautiful region. The Great Salt Lake is a...

Vendetta in Albania 10,000 people are affected by vendettas in the North of Albania, living shut away for fear of reprisals from the opposing family. 1,000...

Gangs and drug warlords rule Rio's favellas, running pitched battles with police who rarely enter their neighborhoods except in force. For young people, gang...

Dr. Steven M. Hoefflin is a world-renowned plastic surgeon to the stars with clients like Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and supermodel Angie Everhart. He...

Exhibitionism and fantasy are integral to daily life in Las Vegas. A look at trendy teen-inspired fashion set against the backdrop of surreal and iconic Las Vegas...

"The Los Angeles food court" explores the diversity and everyday reality of a "geo-cultural" phenomenon that is central to the way we eat and socialize in urban...

The world revealed in series: ten options, one best. Baechtold’s Best is a different kind of picture project. Images replace detailed descriptions and...

Between 1940 and 1945, the Nazis occupied the Polish town of Oswiecim, establishing the concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz where more than 900,000...

You can do everything with bayonets, except sit on them." Mohammad Zaki, spokesperson for warlord Rachid Dostom citing Talleyrand, in regard to the systematic use...

Odessa, the mythic Ukrainian city located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea is forever the main vacation destination in the ex-soviet union's countries. The...

A look at fame and the cult of celebrity through portraits of up-and-coming actresses in Hollywood. click to view complete set in the archive

“Why I Wore Lipstick to my Mastectomy” is the title of Geralyn Lucas’ book about her battle against breast cancer. A 36-year old television producer, Lucas...

Beauty has become a pricey commodity; spending on Botox, spa treatments, designer makeup- cosmetic surgery, fitness and dieting total up to $160 billions dollars...

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert....Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage...

The urban dweller of Southern California now exists in what Mike Davis terms “the fastest growing metropolis in the western world, with a built-up surface area...

The children of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and wife Teresa unite for a Kerry fundraising event in Los Angeles. Vanessa (27) and Alexandra Kerry...

Marines have been stationed on Parris Island since 1891 and have trained there since 1915. Women began training there in 1949 and today, 2,000 go through boot camp...

The high-profile daughters of best-selling author Danielle Steele, Victoria(19) and Vanessa (20) Traina are beautiful, fashionable socialites with their mother’s...

The ad for the open casting call on the Pussycat Dolls Web site read: “Seeking beautiful, exceptional pop/R&B/soul singers who must also be accomplished...

"Oil is the Devil's Excrement" Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, Minister and co-founder of OPEC, 1973 "You kinda have to go where the oil is" Lee Raymond, CEO...

A victim of geography and hard-ball politics, the Salton Sea is California's largest, most troubled lake. It lies 227 feet below sea level with no outlets and very...

Human desperation can lead to extraordinary creativity. Such an act of creation can be seen when war breaks out and within days, in the first place where people...

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest and most glamorous of the film festivals. Stars, producers, directors, publicists, movie executives and...

Communism & Cowgirls deals with the first Russian generation growing up after the decline of communism. These young people are influenced by Western subcultures and...

Perhaps the most aptly named geographic landmark in the world, the Cherokee Indians called the Great Smoky Mountains the "Place of Blue Smoke" due to its perennial...

Sporting underwear as outerwear was made popular by such performers as Madonna and Britney Spears, but what happens when glorified lingerie steps off the red...

With Oscar treatment, p.r. fanfare, and the obvious pop-star influences of Britney and Christina, Mattel has redesigned Barbie to appeal to the highly attractive...

Sharon Osbourne and her daughter Kelly spend a day shopping through the luxurious landscape of New York's finest stores. Although they bring their own security...

As Tasmania marked the 200th anniversary of its settlement by Europeans in 2004, this uniquely beautiful island - usually referred to by Australians as ‘Tassie’...

Tasmania - usually referred to by Australians as "Tassie" - is Australia's second oldest state - around the size of Ireland and a population of 473,000. It is also...

The body has become a primary expression of individual identity for girls in contemporary American culture. Girl Culture investigates girls’ relationships to...

On the second Sunday of October in the great Amazon port of Belem, the largest Catholic festival in Brazil takes place. Its called the Cirio de Nazare. Celebrated...

Leisure World is the first US city exclusively for the elderly. A self-governing 4-square mile community surrounded by a barbed wire fence, where the average age is...

Hong Kong women are obsessed with youth and beauty. In pursuit of both, they are willing to spend vast sums of time and money. Stores such as Bonluxe promise to...

Decades after Mao realized his vision of a classless, property-less society by destroying wealth and its manifestations, China's monied elite has made a very...

Long before Riverboom’s Gabriele Galimberti become a compulsive globetrotter the seeds of his future disease where already visible in his first project:...

Guardians of the Rainforest In the mid-1980's reports of the increasing destruction of the Amazon Rain Forest alarmed people around the world. In 1992, following...

Shambroom's photographs of government meetings are part of a long-term investigation of power. A common impulse in these projects is his quest as one individual to...

Derived from Botulinum Toxin Type A, Botox was originally approved in 1989 for treatment of medical conditions including muscular spasms and twitches, emerging over...

The presidential campaign of Lionel Jospin in 2002. In 2002, I was on assignment for the daily newspaper Liberation to follow the socialist leader Lionel Jospin...

Owens Lake, the site of a formerly 200 square-mile lake in California on the eastern side of the Sierra Mountains, had been a water-filled lake for some 78 million...

Afghanistan is unlike Sarajevo or Kigali or any other war-ravaged landscape Norfolk has ever photographed. In Kabul in particular, the devastation has a bizarre...

In the tiny mountain towns of West Virginia and the neighboring hill counties of Virginia and Kentucky, they call it "hillbilly heroin" or "poor man's heroin". They...

It is the vast, sprawling complexes of oil refineries and petro-chemical plants that help make the Texan economy one of the biggest in the world. But does the...

Clark witnessed the attack of the world trade center from his rooftop in Willimasburg, Brooklyn. His photos captured the second plane hitting the tower and his...

In the days following the unprecedented terrorist attack and collapse of the World Trade Center, New Yorkers begin to gather around the perimeter of "Ground Zero"...

In the days following the unprecedented terrorist attack and destruction of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, New Yorkers struggled to come to terms with the...

Obesity is becoming the major health crisis of the next generation. 1 in 7 American children are obese and doctors are seeing dangerously obese children as young as...

David Maisel’s “Oil Rig” is an exploration of two rigs. An active oil platform called Genesis, located in the Gulf of Mexico, 150 miles south of New Orleans,...

Casting agent Jennifer Starr searched for the most beautiful woman she could find on the streets of New York City and introduced me to Sarah Ziff. I subsequently...

African art dealer Ernie Wolfe is a modern-day Ernest Hemingway. Renowned hunter and fisherman, he returns from the sea every so often with an enormous catch of...

President Obama and Russian President Medvedev have signed a treaty reducing the number of each side's strategic warheads from 2200 to 1550 apiece. In his new...

There are reportedly more nose jobs being performed in Iran today than in any other country in the world. For more than 20 years strict social rules have...

John O'Donnell and Carolyn Beiber were a homeless couple with a passionate love life. Living next to an affluent shopping area near the ocean, they eked out their...

They lived around Chernobyl. Many worked for the nuclear power station, a symbol of the Soviet people's "mastery of the machine". A town was even built for them:...

In their ruthless drive to exploit their nation, Soviet leaders gave little thought to the health of their people or the lands that they ruled. No country is free...

Fat Nation was an assignment that seemed to have all the trappings of a stereotypical look at the prevalence of obesity in the USA. Nelson talked his way in to the...

Zed Nelson's seminal project Gun Nation - a disturbing reflection on America's deadly love affair with the gun - is widely considered to be the definitive body of...

Beverly Hills 90210 explores everyday life in one of the wealthiest zip codes in America. A colorful cocktail of entertainment stars. click to view complete set...

Models are becoming China's new stars. Until the recent development of a domestic fashion industry—and a craving for Asian faces on catwalks abroad—few Chinese...

During 3 years, from 1996 to 1999, Herbaut photographed the Front National 's nebula, the far right French party of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Herbaut was close to this...

The British tradition of fox hunting is viewed by many as an elitist and cruel past time for the rich. The battle between those who call for an outright ban and...

Reflections of my Childhood Dreams In the early 1800s brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published a book of fairy tales that remains unrivaled to this day. It...

New research on the teen brain may explain teenagers' sometimes inexplicable and irrational behavior. Researchers now believe that teenagers' erratic and rebellious...

Klansmen and heavily armed Black Panthers converged on the small Southern town of Jasper, Texas, in a confrontation that looked like a hideous throwback to the...

Kids and Consumerism documents American youth spending liberally at malls, preening and pampering in spas, flaunting bling at parties, and closely critiquing...

Two years of drought in Oklahoma and Texas and a mounting toll of farm bankruptcies across the farm belt revived memories of the great dust bowl of the 1930's,...

A century-old monument to the Tsars' imperial will and the Soviet Union's industrial might, the Trans-Siberian Railroad - like the immense region it serves -...

Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood documents the experience of growing up in Los Angeles, and the ways children are influenced by the values of...

When I began photographing teen mothers in 1990 I was interested in exploring how young mothers negotiated their way through adolescence, developing individual...

French Guiana, a tropical French colony on the equator between Venezuela and Brazil, is home to the Legion’s third Regiment. 850 Legionnaires are stationed here,...

In ‘Sin City’, some dancers strip to survive – to earn enough tip money to buy food – while others dance for fun, because they like showing off their...

The photographs in this body of work represent an early iteration of my ongoing interest in psychological portraiture. The images describe moments that undermine...

Suge Knight, C.E.O. of Death Row Records and his posse, including Tupac Shakur, convoy to Las Vegas for a weekend of cavorting. Suge started the record company in...

The James Bay Hydro Quebec project is one of the largest hydroelectric systems in the world, and covers an area the size of New York State. The project, which cost...

Legislation governing mining activity in the United States dates from over 135 years ago. The 1872 Mining Law was ratified in an era when this country sought to...

Having spent two summers in the Zinacantecan village of Nabenchauk when I was three and four years old, I returned twenty one years later to photograph modern Maya...

click to view the complete set of images in the archive

In January 1978 Gerd Ludwig (together with journalist Peter Sager) went on a journey to the Lower Rhine with artist Joseph Beuys. It led them back to Beuys’ roots...

The Building of America’s Last Spaceship: Retreat from the Final Frontier? When the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis touches down this summer after a supply...

Though the French Revolution was supposed to have eliminated the aristocracy as a powerful political and social presence in France, the contemporary French...

The Forest depicts abandoned log flows from clear-cut zones in an area of northern Maine’s rivers and lakes. The forms of the tree trunks, set against the inky...

Black Maps had its genesis in 1983, when I began photographing open pit mines from the air. After witnessing the clear-cutting of forests in the Pacific Northwest...