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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...

Join us for an Artist Reception and Book Signing with Rena Effendi on the occasion of her exhibition 'Liquid Land: Legacies of Oil and Power' on Saturday, 11 May,...

The surface is covered with cracks and rust-colored patches but it is still firmly set in the ground. It is like a prick of conscience in the fable-like landscape...

'T.R.I.P. - Travel Routes In Photography' is a photographic group exhibition curated by Arianna Rinaldo, showcasing four different trips telling different stories....

The exhibition 'The Last Wave' at La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, will be on display 25 April - 9 June 2013. The exhibition is part of the festival 'This is not...

Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of...

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...

In this episode of Real Exposures, photographer and documentary film director Lauren Greenfield stopped by the B&H studio to discuss her 2012 documentary The...

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

Opening on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Liquid Land: Legacies of Oil and Power reveals the struggles and resilience of people living in some of the...

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...

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...

Tomorrow, 14 March 2013, the Galerie Le Carré d’Art will open its doors to the exhibition 'La Zone - Photographies de Guillaume Herbaut' - a sensory journey into...

The works of INSTITUTE artists Robert Clark and Simon Norfolk will be on display at the Annenberg Space for Photography as part of their upcoming exhibition...

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"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...

On the 7th March 2013 the Format Festival in Derby will launch its 6th edition and INSTITUTE is proud to announce that INSTITUTE artist David Chancellor's project...

Please join Lauren Greenfield in Malmo for her Swedish Biennial Opening Exhibition of 'Girl Culture' on 2nd March 2013, the screening of 'The Queen of Versailles'...

Guillaume Herbaut Workshop / 25 – 28 APRIL 2013 MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST 25 – 28 APRIL 2013 During Guillarme Herbaut’s workshop and the days of the Lag...

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

Congratulations to Rafal Milach for becoming a finalist of this year's Pictures of the Year International award in the category 'Best Photography Book' with his...

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

INSTITUTE artist David Chancellor's long-term project 'Hunters' has been announced as the winner of the World Understanding Award of the 70th annual Pictures of the...

“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,...

RPS Creative Photography and Commerce Event, 22 March 2013 , Watershed Bristol The Royal Photographic Society presents a day of lectures and portfolio reviews...

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....

'Landmark: The Fields of Photography' at Somerset House, London 14 March – 28 April 2013 David Maisel's and Simon Norfolk's photographs will be featured in...

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The 2013 Photoworks Senior Research Fellowship in photography and lens based media at The British School at Rome (BSR) has been awarded to Zed Nelson. His residency...

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

'Documenting With Personal Vision' 5-day Workshop with Gerd Ludwig in Los Angeles 18 - 22 April 2013 $965.00 This 5-day workshop by National Geographic...

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...

Light House is co-hosting the exhibition Love Me by the multi award-winning photographer Zed Nelson. Light House will be working with Wolverhampton Art Gallery who...

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...

The fashion brand HOUSE has published a book with Rafal Milach's photographs. Published by: HOUSE LPP click here to view Rafal's features, exhibitions and...

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'There is nothing easy about it. It is a constructed moment, a scene within a scene, the real within the unreal. They are moments, lunga fermata, suspensions of...

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...

'Black Maps: The American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime' is a solo show surveying four chapters of Maisel's larger ongoing series titled Black Maps....

“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...

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...

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"The more I tried to understand Russia, the more lost I became. Russia is like a planet of its own." Rafał Milach Why does a photographer, or anyone with an...

What inspires a photographer to embark on a project that will take up six years of his life? For Wayne Lawrence the emo- tional triggers were as varied as they were...

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,...

Join us for two special screenings to launch the DVD release of "The Queen of Versailles". Wednesday 23 January 2013, 8:30 pm, Ritzy Brixton Special Screening...

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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...

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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...

In January 1978, photographer Gerd Ludwig and journalist Peter Sager went on a journey to the Lower Rhine with Joseph Beuys. It led them back to Beuys’ origins,...

In her sympathetic pictures of performers from small towns in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, England, and Israel, Michal Chelbin offers a glimpse into worlds both strange...

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"Hunters" by David Chancellor At the beginning of the 20th century, East African hunting safaris became a fashionable pursuit among members of the privileged...

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...

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...

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

To coincide with Guillaume Herbaut's solo exhibition 'Photographies', currently on display at the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin in Paris, the artist will be giving an...

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...

To celebrate the end of 2012 INSTITUTE and Kate Peters are offering a special print edition of the olympic gold medal winners Sir Chris Hoy, Jessica Ennis, Mo...

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

Since INSTITUTE launched on January 1st 2010 it's artists images have adorned 117 covers of the worlds leading editorial and art magazines.

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BAECHTOLD'S BEST: Louvreland The world revealed in series: ten options, one best. Baechtold’s Best is a different kind of picture book. Images replace...

BIFF JURY STATEMENT: “The Queen of Versailles is a serious film that exhibited all the elements we were looking for in our guidelines – it’s provocative,...

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...

Guess the subject AND who photographed our 100th cover. The winner will receive a free copy of David Chancellor's stunning new monograph, "HUNTERS". Email us at...

7/7 stands for 7 series: seven “stories” about survivors; ghosts and memories that one repeats indefinitely or stays quiet about, that one holds in, stories...

The John Kobal new work award, a new prize given to a photographer under 30 selected for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition, went to Matthew...

Pripyat was inhabited by 30 000 residents and located just 3 kilometers from the power plant of Tchernobyl. As they were evacuated the day after the disaster,...

We are proud to announce that Alexander Gronsky has joined INSTITUTE. click to learn more about Alexander and see his...

The cardboard fold-out book KIEV is the third publication in The Sochi Project Sketchbook Series. It depicts Sochi in the summer as well as being an ode to...

"THE ZONE" I can see in front of me this snow-covered bridge, the bluish evening light and the wolf footprints. I have been in Tchernobyl’s forbidden Zone for...

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...

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...

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...

The exhibition Lives Behind follows Effendi’s ten-year journey of documenting the struggles and small triumphs of people, mainly living in the countries of the...

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"Love Me" explores the insidious power of the global beauty industry and our collective insecurity, vanity and fear of ageing. In a series of compelling images,...

Feature: Grim Brothers Fairy Tales

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....

As the future of print remains in question and magazines’ and newspapers’ online presence becomes more important, photographers need to consider how to harness...

Founded by the leading Swiss private bank Pictet & Cie in 2008, the Prix Pictet has rapidly established itself as the world’s leading prize in photography and...

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2012 AOP Photographers Awards winners announced. The AOP Photographers Awards is one of the most prestigious and highly respected competitions for professional...

CFD Barcelona: http://cfdbarcelona.com/ The feature: South Sudan - The Nation Makers

Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø: http://www.perspektivet.no/ The feature: Love Me

Of all manmade environmental catastrophes in human history, Chernobyl is considered to have caused the most lasting impact. Since his first visit in 1993, Gerd...

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...

We are proud to announce the exhibition and book launch of David Chancellor’s photographic series Hunters at Jack Bell Gallery, London. At the beginning of the...

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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,...

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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...

For the second edition of Inimaginabe, a photograph of Guillaume Herbaut was chosen to appear on the streets of Paris from September 17th to septembre 23rd...

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...

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‘I co-authored Liquid Land with my father Rustam Effendi, a dissident scientist and entomologist who devoted his life to studying, hunting and collecting over...

"Liquid Land" is co-authored with my father Rustam Effendi, a dissident scientist and entomologist who devoted his life to studying, hunting and collecting...

The cardboard fold-out book KIEV is the third publication in The Sochi Project Sketchbook Series. It depicts Sochi in the summer as well as being an ode to analogue...

Images of skaters from Yann Gross' ongoing series Kitintale will be exhibited as part of a group show featuring work of the collective POC (Piece of Cake).The...

September 6 through October 20, 2012 Reception for the Artist, Thursday, September 6, 7 - 9 p.m. The Fahey/Klein Gallery is proud to present Matthew...

A portrait of the small, unknown country of Abkhazia, a lost Soviet paradise on the Black Sea In Empty land, Promised land, Forbidden land, Rob Hornstra...

Whether her subjects are landscapes, portraits or nudes, Jocelyn Lee’s photographs are about beauty and its poignant fragility. The landscapes are not spectacular...

Guillaume Herbaut and Simon Norfolk's work will be exhibited as part of this years Les Photaumnales festival in Beauvais, France from 8th September - 4th November...

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...

Lauren also photographed the story "Best Night Ever" for GQ Magazine. See tearsheet here

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...

Rob Hornstra started The Sochi Project in 2009. Over the course of five years his aim was to map out the extensive region around the Russian resort of Sochi. This...

In 2005, when President Ahmadinejad was elected, feeling that with the arrival of this populist and extremist president, the divide between how the West viewed Iran...

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"Over the past few weeks I've constantly found myself justifying my work with 'hunters'..I've always stated that this is the first of 3 books looking at much...

David Maisel’s work has always been concerned with processes of memory, excavation, and transformation. These themes are given new form in his latest work,...

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...

Lauren Greenfield also directed a short film, "Best Night Ever" for GQ, watch it here

Years ago, someone shot my friend and tried to shoot me. The experience compelled me to travel across America documenting the carnage created by the estimated 270...

BAECHTOLD'S BEST: Beijing The world revealed in series: ten options, one best. Baechtold’s Best is a different kind of picture book. Images replace detailed...

Gabriele Galimberti of Riverboom's series 'Delicatessen with Love' will be exhibited at the Vevey visual arts festival (Switzerland). Under the patronage of...

Zed Nelson's portraits from Hackney, A Tale of Two Cities are being exhibited at Photofusion in a group show entitled 'Residual Traces' until 7th September 2012. ...

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

"In the car with R" - Out of Print “To do the Ring” is an Icelandic expression that generally refers to travels on Route 1, the highway that encircles the...

On today's CNN photo blog Elizabeth I.Johnson interviews David Chancellor about Hunter's. The African hunting scene draws tourists from around the globe...

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...

"7 Rooms" by Rafal Milach- Currently out of print Why does a photographer, or anyone with an ability to create narrative, gets drawn to a certain geographical...

Jocelyn Lee began photographing teen mothers in 1990, she was interested in exploring how these girls negotiated their way through adolescence, developing unique...

Children’ s Games (1990–1994): The photographs in this body of work represent an early iteration of Jocelyn Lee's ongoing interest in psychological portraiture....

The exhibit brings the subject of eating disorders to the surface where we, as a culture, can begin to deal with this thought provoking subject in our homes and...

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

Processes of memory, excavation, and transformation are given form in the exhibition History’s Shadow. In this series, David Maisel has re-photographed x-rays...

Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime is a survey of David Maisel’ s major aerial photography projects. In these large-scaled photographs,...

Library of Dust investigates a zone bordered by aesthetics and ethics. This photographic project depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated...

The first ever photographs to be taken in Afghanistan were made by the 19th century Irish photographer John Burke (1843?-1900). His eloquent images form an...

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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...

Hunters by David Chancellor. In 2008, I started work on the first of 3 books, documenting the industry behind the wildlife in sub Saharan Africa. Not just...

In this months BJP Rob Hornstra discusses the power of the newsprint. Rob says "newsprints offer many opportunities. In Japan, they are producing some really...

18 works from Rena Effendi's House of Happiness will be exhibited at Calvert 22 gallery in London from 25th July - 16th September 2012 as part of the The Russian...

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"It's like a champagne bath laced with arsenic." - Owen Gleiberman, Film Critic for Entertainment Weekly

Rena Effendi's Liquid Land will be exhibited as part of the Noorderlicht 2012 festival program Terra Cognita which will look at the relation between man and...

Here are links to recent press relating to the shortlist for the Prix Pictet award 2012. INSTITUTE artist Rena Effendi is on the shortlist for her work -...

Riverboom are exhibiting at Cortona On The Move in Tuscany, Italy To learn more http://www.cortonaonthemove.com/riverboom.php

Robert Clark's work is currently on show at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston as part of the exhibition 'Public Dress'. Comprised of images from the museum's...

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Zed Nelson has been named winner of the CFD Documentary Photography Competition 2012 (CDF Barcelona) The jury formed by James Estrin (editor from the Lens Blog,...

Last night in the incredible location of the Theatre Antique at Recontre d'Arles photography festival Rena Effendi's Chernobyl, Still Life in the Zone was...

Jodi Bieber has a solo show titled "Between Darkness and Light" at Stadthaus Ulm, Germany opening today [July 5th] and closing on September...

It was announced yesterday at the Rencontres d’Arles Photo Festival that ‘Safety First’ had won the Magnum Expression Award. Rob Hornstra's work was chosen by...

LHC claims new particle discovery source BBC Cern scientists reporting in the UK and Geneva claim the discovery of a new particle consistent with the...

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Zed Nelson is giving a 5-day Masterclass workshop at the Fotopub festival, Slovenia. Attendance costs 350 euros. It will be an intimate group of only 8 people in...

The British Journal of Photography is running a venue at Arles this year called Temporary Office Location, along with Self Publish Be Happy and Hard Copy. They're...

INSTITUTE artist Lauren Greenfield named a Winner in Communication Arts' Photography Annual 53 (Best Photography of the Year) Child Beauty Queens commissioned...

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...

Jodi Bieber has a solo show titled "Between Darkness and Light" at Stadthaus Ulm, Germany opening July 5th and closing on September...

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

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...

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Simon Norfolk’s 2002 book 'Afghanistan: chronotopia' is now recognised as a classic of photography. It established Norfolk’s reputation as one of the leading...

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...

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...

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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...

"Within Our Means" by Toby Lichtig ...With Sundance’s excellent reputation for supporting serious factual filmmaking, the strength of the documentary programme...

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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...

BAECHTOLD'S BEST: North Pole The world revealed in series: ten options, one best. Baechtold’s Best is a different kind of picture book. Images replace...

Ivanhoe Reservoir

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...

Schilt Publishing will be publishing David Chancellor's first monograph titled "Hunters" http://www.schiltpublishing.com/

Life in the wake of the expenses scandal. Disgraced, depressed and in some cases imprisoned: politicians tainted by the expenses scandal talk about trying to...

Lost in Publications has curated a wonderful overview of Rob Hornstra's previous publications from 'The Sochi Project' by carefully putting together a selection of...

“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...

SELECTED for inclusion in AP28 Book - Lauren Greenfield (3 images), Guillaume Herbaut (2 images), Nadav Kander (2 images), Wayne Lawrence (4 images), Richard Mosse...

Rob Hornstra photographs veterans from the second world war, all living in the Caucasus (Sochi region) who live in totally different circumstances now. Poor,...

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...

Simon Norfolk's work is on show at Foam in Amsterdam until 30th May 2012 as part of 'The New York Times Magazine Photographs' exhibition, co-curated by Kathy Ryan,...

Eleven years ago Jodi Bieber followed people being arrested in Hillbrow Johannesburg as ‘illegal immigrants’, and their journey as they were being taken back to...

'Love Me' will be exhibited at Impressions Gallery from 5 May to 24 June 2012. In LOVE ME, Zed Nelson reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive...

© Zed Nelson/INSTITUTE Zed Nelson's 'Hackney - A Tale of Two Cities' and Paolo Wood's 'Radio Days' to be exhibited for the first time at the new Philadelphia...

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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...

The exhibition presents selected images from Jodi Bieber's first independent project in 1995, when she spent six months with the crime prevention unit in Hillbrow....

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...

© Robert Leslie David Chancellor was also at the awards but was MIA for the shoot - Sorry David L-R - Frank Evers, Zed Nelson, Kate Peters, Rena Effendi,...

Rob Hornstra collected the Sony World Photography Award in the category of Arts & Culture Simon Norfolk collected the Sony World Photography Award in the...

After sweeping last weekend's World Press Photo Awards (more than any other agency), INSTITUTE Artists are doing it again, with four of our Artists taking home...

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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...

From L - R: Simon Norfolk, Paolo Woods, Rob Hornstra, Guillaume Herbaut and Matt Shonfeld (seated) image courtesy of © Joris Van Egmond at Canon Europe

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 –...

Eric Klinenberg on Going Solo The surprising benefits, to oneself and to society, of living alone In his new book, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and...

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...

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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...

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For more than two decades, David Maisel has photographed civilization's aggressive advance across the American landscape. The sites he has pursued, the subjects he...

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...

Not just one of the best documentaries at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Lauren Greenfield’s The Queen of Versailles deserves to be in the conversation...

The Sochi Project: Empty Land, Promised Land, Forbidden Land Photographs by Rob Hornstra and text by Arnold van Bruggen 15 March – 21 April 2012 FOTO8, 1-5...

In Texas, football is a religion. And since the Oilers moved to Tennessee in 1987 to become the Titans, Houston has been a church without a preacher. But in 1999,...

INSTITUTE artists and World Press Photo winners Simon Norfolk, Paolo Woods, Rob Hornstra and Guillaume Herbaut together with Executive Director Matt Shonfeld will...

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 Queen of Versailles (Dir. Lauren Greenfield, July 6). Directed by internationally acclaimed photographer Lauren Greenfield, the buzzworthy documentary The Queen...

A review by Karen Jenkins in PhotoEye discusses David Maisel's History's Shadow in poetic detail: " Exterior boundaries are softly rendered as if in a...

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...

China exists today in a liminal realm, caught between the socialist idealism of old and a calamitous drive for wealth spurned by recent free market reforms. This...

'Un Monde de Brut' is a behind the scenes investigation of the oil industry. Paolo Woods, Serge Michel and Serge Enderlin, have been out in the field exploring the...

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...

Jodi Bieber talks about her work in an interview by Photoraw... To watch the full interview, click on the image below.

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...

As Joël Vacheron writes in this publication, “Yann Gross’ project could be compared to David Lynch’s “The Straight Story”: based on a real event, it...

BAECHTOLD'S BEST: New Guinea The world revealed in series: ten options, one best. Baechtold’s Best is a different kind of picture book. Images replace...

Acclaimed Minneapolis photographer and newly-minted University of Minnesota professor Paul Shambroom has been documenting the everyday for years. Where most see...

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....

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...

Simon Norfolk's Burke + Norfolk will open at Side Gallery on Saturday 10 December. At 2pm on Saturday, Simon will open the show by giving a talk about his work at...

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...

BAECHTOLD'S BEST: Afghanistan The world revealed in series: ten options, one best. Baechtold’s Best is a different kind of picture book. Images replace...

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...

The Prince Claus Fund coridally invites you to be present at the opening of the exhibition Lives Behind with photographs by 2011 Prince Claus Laureate Rena Effendi...

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...

Guillaume Herbaut's "La Zone" is currently showing at the Grande Bibliotheque, MK2, Paris. Here are some images from the show.

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...

I can see in front of me this snow-covered bridge, the bluish evening light and the wolf footprints. I have been in Tchernobyl’s forbidden Zone for two days. I...

A thought-provoking article in the Boston Globe reviews Richard Mosse's INFRA show at Jack Shainman. To read the full article, click on the image below.

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...

"Kitintale"- Out of Print The first Uganda skateboarders were inspired by the television, but hadn’t any concrete to practice on in their neighborhood. They...

Richard Mosse interviewed in Flavorwire... His most memorable moment while shooting his Infra project, currently showing at Jack Shainman Gallery? "My most...

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...

Stop motion and video introducing the Christopher Raeburn/Victorinox collection for the New York Fashion Week, Februrary 2011. The models work in the...

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...

Robert Clark together with Lai ling Jew & Chris Farbers films for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Click here to see all the videos

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...

Jodi Bieber's vibrant, colourful, Soweto work will be showing as part of the Goodman Gallery's Summer Show, opening on 15th December.

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?...

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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,...

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,...

Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra has decided to go it alone to document the Russian city of Sochi - which makes winning first prize in the Arts and Entertainment...

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...

A pipe dream is a fantastic hope that is regarded as being impossible to achieve. This book is dedicated to the people of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, linked by...

Get ready for Christmas with the Sochi Project. From limited edition books to the best photography-based Xmas cards. We love!

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...

In an interview published by Landscape Stories, Rob Hornstra talks about his practice, the Sochi project, and (self-)publishing. "I have a great need to tell social...

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The Sochi Project: Empty Land, Promised Land, Forbidden Land Photographs by Rob Hornstra and text by Arnold van Bruggen 15 March – 7 April 2012 Foto8 announces...

'The Black Eye' continues Michal Chelbin’s exploration of the world of athletes and performers from Eastern Europe, Israel, and England. The athletes and...

“I fear rain… That is Chernobyl. I fear snow…and the forest. It is not an abstraction, or a deduction, but a feeling from deep in myself. Chernobyl is in my...

David Maisel features in group show "Subverted" opening from 14 February – 12 May, 2012, at IvoryPress Gallery in Madrid. http://www.ivorypress.com

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

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'Full Spectrum Dominance' is a handmade hardback leporelo manufactured by Book Works in London. Five archival digital C-Type gloss prints (+1 small on the...

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...

"Love Me" explores the insidious power of the global beauty industry and our collective insecurity, vanity and fear of ageing. In a series of compelling images...

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...

Guillaume Herbaut's work on Hiroshima is featured in Nathalie Herschdorfer's recent volume on photography, Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting 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...

Paul Shambroom's work "Shrines" features in the latest issue of Blind Spot magazine. What happens to weapons of war when they are no longer useful for their...

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...

Various Reviews on-line FILM Review originally published January 21, 2012 as part of Film.com’s coverage of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Lauren...

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...

INSTITUTE artist Rena Effendi's work Oil Village is featured in the OSI's Moving Walls exhibition, opening on Wednesday 30 November. Please join Rena at the...

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The New Yorker's Photography Director, Whitney Johnson, writes about Rena Effendi's current exhibition of work in Moving Walls, at the Open Society Foundation. The...

Paul Shambroom exhibits Power and Place at Heuser Art Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, January 16 – February 17, 2012. There will be a lecture on...

In an interview by Revenue Watch, Rena Effendi talks about her work as an artist, her relationship to her father's work as an entomologist, and the fate of her home...

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...

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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...

INSTITUTE artist Kate Peters worked with designers Tappin Gofton to document, on a daily basis the process of the band creating a large scale graffiti wall. 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...

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...

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...

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...

“In his book Warped Space, the architectural theorist Anthony Vidler speaks of the “paranoiac space of modernism,” a space which is “mutated into a realm...

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...