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Extras let hair down for ‘Lincoln’ movie
When the crew for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” came to film in Richmond, Virginia, Anya Mills noticed a strange phenomenon among residents. First, her neighbor got one. She spotted it when he was...
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The frontlines of American manufacturing
Photographer Ian Wagreich says the U.S. manufacturing sector is alive and well. For the past two years he has been making portraits of workers at dozens of factories and production plants across the...
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Malala and the women of Pakistan
Kaye Martindale and Geoff Brokate traveled through Pakistan for around eight months making portraits of local women, including young blogger Malala Yousafzai, a runner-up for Time’s Person of the Year...
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Painting portraits with water
When Wendy Sacks is taking a portrait of a child for her series “Immersed in Living Water,” the water is her paint. As a child she painted with her mother, who was an artist, and when she’s working...
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Sydney’s ‘Wild West’ suburbs
In Sydney’s “Wild West” suburbs live immigrants from all over the world. Some escaped wars, others poverty, others repression. When George Voulgaropoulos moved to the area, he fell in love with it. He...
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Gun culture in Colorado
Denver-based photographer Matt Slaby has been documenting gun culture in Colorado since just before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that gun ownership is an individual right protected under the...
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Recounting the nightmares of the Holocaust
Photographer Maciek Nabrdalik was visiting a Holocaust memorial and museum in Poland when he noticed an obituary posted for one of the survivors. The next day there was another one. “At that moment I...
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‘Talking Heads’: Puppets from the past
For his first personal assignment, celebrity photographer and director Matthew Rolston shot portraits of a different breed of entertainers — ventriloquist dummies. In 2009 he read an article in the New...
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‘A super serious project about dogs and physics’
Right before photographer Theron Humphrey jumped into his Toyota pickup to start a 50-state photo-project road trip, he made a stop in a Marietta, Georgia, animal shelter. There he met a coonhound that...
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When HIV was a death sentence
Before Billy Howard had finished the intro to his photo book of HIV/AIDS portraits, 15 of the people in the book had died. He’d started the project in 1987 and wanted as many as possible of the people...
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Recurring themes in Mexican portraits
With hundreds of portraits spanning a century and a half, the instinct would be to sort them chronologically. But curator Pablo Monasterio ignored the dates and organized the book “Mexican Portraits”...
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Joint exhibit reveals a shared vision
It is no coincidence that Doug DuBois’ portraits of Irish teens and Aaron Blum’s portraits of family, friends and the countryside of West Virginia share a quiet, intimate quality. DuBois was Blum’s...
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Teachers pose with their guns
December’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut jarred parents and teachers around Ohio. Thinking more had to be done to protect their children, a number of teachers and school staff...
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We are the Chicago Sun-Times photography department
On a warmer-than-normal May morning, a group of men and women apprehensively gathered in a room at the Holiday Inn in Chicago. They looked like regular folks assembled together, perhaps for a trade...
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Undocumented youth: A dream deferred
This September Congress will finally come to a decision on immigration reform that will affect the lives of millions of young undocumented immigrants. While often portrayed as outsiders, photographer...
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Turning the tables: Photographing nude men
Editor’s note: Rebecca Horne is a freelance writer and photographer. She was a photo editor for the Wall Street Journal and her own work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco and Arles, France....
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Shower confessionals
The best way to get a subject comfortable during a photo shoot, Manjari Sharma found, is to get the person into the shower. Sharma started her shower series about four years ago with her subject...
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The omnipresence of Bashar al-Assad in Syria
When he visited Syria in 2007, Nicolas Righetti kept seeing the same person everywhere he went. In the living room of a house, in a public square and in the back of a bus, he couldn't get away from the...
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‘Love Me,’ not the Western idea of beauty
After traveling the world for five years, photographer Zed Nelson learned that modern human behavior is extreme – extraordinary, even – and we aren’t aware that anything is wrong. “I am fascinated and...
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Pigeons: The ‘wounded messengers’
Pigeons – love them or hate them, everyone has an opinion about them. In big cities, they are often regarded as filthy or diseased and referred to as “flying rats.” But these birds share a long history...
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