Traditionally, the last Sunday in June is reserved for Gay Pride in New York City. This year, there was a major reason to celebrate. On Friday night, New York State legislators voted to legalize same-sex marriage, allowing New York to become the sixth and largest state to pass such legislation.
Photographer Joseph Szabo who is best known for his pictures of teenagers, recently made a remarkable (re)discovery—a very different body of work he calls Hometown—pictures he'd taken four decades ago that he had all but forgotten.
The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup kicks off today in Germany. In September 2010, photographer Adrienne Grunwald, along with gender researcher and former Santos F.C. player Caitlin Fisher, began documenting the lives of forty female futebol players in Brazil who play professionally for Santos FC—one of the most renowned male futebol clubs of all time.
Since 2006, New York City based portrait photographer Michael Sharkey has been photographing gay teens and young adults as part of his on-going series Queer Kids. Born out of his own struggles coming out in the 80s, Sharkey says the focus of the project, where he interviews and portrays each subject, is to give this generation a voice, one he didn’t have at their age.
Los Angeles-based photographer Chad Ress’s landscape series America Recovered re-examines the legacy of the FSA within the context of the recent economic recession. By pairing photos of areas slated to receive stimulus money with text explaining the purpose of the grant, Ress’s project offers a unique look at the contemporary American landscape.
Danielle Levitt speaks with LightBox about her fascination photographing kids and her new project, Street Casted.
This week: a refugee southern Sudan in the run-up to the elections, the World Trade Center steel program; protests on both sides in Libya; Saturn’s icy moon; China’s floods; a Greek Air Force plane under the sea; riots in Senegal; US troops in Afghanistan on the day President Obama orders 33,000 home by next summer.
Greek photographer Angelos Tzortzinis documents the chaos and turmoil on the streets of Athens as protests against deeply unpopular austerity measures continue
The Borscht Belt hotels and Catskills resorts in upstate New York defined an era for many Jewish-Americans during the 1950s and 1960s. Heidi Warner, a photographer based in New York City, spent many years vacationing there with her extended family. Last year, she returned and began making images of the current state of the deteriorating hotels and resorts.
Inside a dusty compound in northern Iraq, amid bombed-out tanks and empty prison cells once used for torture, a group of photographers gathered for a week-long intensive workshop on photojournalism
