Muhammed Muheisen’s photographs are poignant visual reminders of how humanity awakens and lives out each day in Pakistan, Syria and Afghanistan. Here, TIME presents a selection of the Associated Press photographer’s work from the past calendar year. Muheisen was part of the AP team awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News photography from Syria.
The allure of the American West has captivated photographers since the earliest days of the medium. David Maisel’s latest book, Black Maps, chronicles more than 25 years of observing the land from a god-like perspective and an obsession with environmental destruction.
Saul Leiter is an original — a spirited, self-effacing artist who followed his own vision. Seven decades after his first photographs and with a new documentary featuring his work, TIME sat down for a friendly conversation with the painter and photographer at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.
Adam Bartos’s new book sheds some white light on the dying craft of analog printmaking and the environments that have produced most of the medium’s greatest images.
Stefan Ruiz’s latest book takes us behind the scenes at Mexico’s Televisa studios, where nearly 50,000 hours worth of soap operas are produced each year.
For the past five years the Yale-trained artist has been photographing a network of off-the-grid communities in the southeastern United States. The work has just been published in his first monograph by Nazraeli Press.
Matt Wisniewski’s photo collages combine vintage and contemporary photography to make beautiful and surreal portraits.
A landscape photographer makes exquisite studies of discarded clothes found at a squatter camp in the New Mexican desert.
TIME talks to the pioneering photographer on the publication of his new monograph, which looks back on six decades of his remarkable work.
A new book published by Steidl sheds light on the color photographer’s early work.
