FORBIDDEN BEAUTY

Golnaz Shahmirzadi

I was born in Iran during a very difficult time. It was the time of the Islamic revolution in Iran. I witnessed the influx of refugees from Afghanistan in Iran due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...more

THE SAMI WAY

Elisa Ferrari

 In Sweden, reindeer herders have some rights to the land for reindeer husbandry, but the government maintains the power to take over the land - if it is in the national interest. .... more

GRAVITY

Michael Haussman

Each of the five subjects is filmed in slow motion, floating upward then descending down to the earth, where they bottom out in gravity's clutch. Yet each person is magically stationary.... more

INVISIBLE PEOPLE: POOR AND WHITE IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA

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When I first heard the term "white poverty" in South Africa, I thought it was an oxymoron. The only whites I had seen were affluent; they had nice cars, homes, and a lifestyle enhanced by labor made cheap by their country's huge black poverty. In contrast, shanty towns ringed every city I visited. I didn't see any white people living there... more

A ROMANCE IN PICTURES

"A Romance in Pictures" presents a body of photographs that responds to both technical and conceptual questions surrounding the digital form of photography, through the lens of our culture's consumption of magazine advertisements... more

MYTHOLOGIES

The history of the Iceland series began with a commercial job where the client wanted to go to remote locations that were cinematic in feel. They asked me where I wanted to shoot and how I would go about it... more

OUR LAND

The photographs in this series developed out of landscape imagery appropriated from an archive of early 20th century negatives that I acquired while working as artist in residence at the San Francisco dump. Many of the pictures depict scenes from our National Parks, as well as numerous other locations throughout the American West ... more

NEW DEVELOPMENTS

In the late summer of 2010, I returned to Laos to follow up on a project I was working on in 2007 recording and photographing musicians. I was startled at the change that occurred since my prior visit... more