Inside the IAEA
© Alastair Philip WiperAsk most people what the International Atomic Energy Agency does, and you will probably get vague and ominous descriptions of rogue states trying to build nuclear bombs, uranium enrichment, safeguards inspectors and treaties being broken.
This reputation isn't bad, exactly. It's just that there is much more to the story.
Behind the same facade, scientists are doing something almost nobody expects: irradiating banana plants to save the world's most popular variety from a fungus that could wipe it out. Breeding billions of insects a week, sterilizing the males with radiation, and releasing them to collapse malaria-carrying mosquito populations. Reading the isotopic fingerprint in a jar of honey to determine whether it's fraud.
Exposing seeds to radiation to shorten a process - genetic mutation - that would otherwise take a plant species thousands of years.
Beyond the bureaucratic, high-security machinery of nuclear diplomacy happening in the corridors and meeting rooms of the Y-shaped
IAEA headquarters in Vienna, a strange, hopeful, largely invisible science is happening - cancer treatment access for the world's poorest regions, contaminated water cleanup, forensic crime-scene analysis, tracing Earth's 4.5 billion-year-old water supply.
The IAEA is an agency built in the shadow of the bomb that spends most of its energy quietly trying to feed, heal and protect the world instead.
Photographed at the IAEA's headquarters in Vienna and its laboratories in Seibersdorf, June 2026.
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View from the Precipice
Survey of Works 1983-2026© David Maisel
View from the Precipice, a retrospective monograph spanning Maisel's entire career, begins with a comprehensive index of his projects from 1983 to 2026 that includes both extensive information about each body of work and insights into their development in the artist's own words. This chronology is followed by a lyrically sequenced plate section that draws formal and conceptual connections across bodies of work, decades of time, and photography and painting—the two mediums in which Maisel most commonly works. In addition to writing by the artist, View from the Precipice also includes newly commissioned essays by Alexander Nemerov and Geoff Manaugh alongside a transcribed conversation between Maisel and author Samantha Harvey that focuses on, among other things, the visual and psychological perspective afforded by the aerial vantage point.
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Known for his aerial photographs chronicling the complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention, David Maisel's images often initially appear abstract and painterly, offering detailed but open-ended visual information that operates as both documentary and metaphor. Their strange beauty has been referred to as “the apocalyptic sublime.”
David Maisel: View from the Precipice (Survey of Works 1983-2026)
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Plastico
© David HarrimanIn Almeria Province in Spain, a sea of plastic sheeting covers the land creating the largest collection of greenhouses in the world. The invernaderos (as they are called in Spanish) cover upwards of 150 square miles and are visible by the naked eye from space. A large proportion of Europe's fruit and vegetables is intensively farmed here. A huge amount of plastic waste is created each year, estimated to be more than 30000 tons. These hot houses are staLed by an army of African migrants working in extreme heat conditions in the summer months.
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Truth & Kitty: A Las Vegas Love Story
© David HarrimanTruth & Kitty: A Las Vegas Love Story is photographer and filmmaker David Harriman’s fourteen-year portrait of two people surviving on the fringes of America’s most marketed city.
What began in 2012 as an exploration of environmental excess transformed into an unguarded, intimate collaboration. Meeting Truth and Kitty as industrious recyclers on Fremont Street, he stayed close to their lives as circumstances shifted and they found themselves homeless.
The project deepened into a study of love and endurance. It is a record of two people clinging to one another through motels, underpasses, jails, and a mountain cave overlooking the shimmer of the famous Strip – even as the bond between them begins to fray. Around them, a whole community lives in the shadow of a city built on a dream that was never theirs to win.
Unflinching yet tender, Truth & Kitty surfaces the reality of a Las Vegas that has been managed into invisibility.
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Landscape of Lust
© David HarrimanDrive through many cities in the US and you will find a corner where the female form is exploited to generate income. Designed to showcase their wares in the darker hours of the night these temples to voyeurism and lust look incongruous in the bright light of day.
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