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Vivid portraits of Atlanta in the mid-90s

Photographer Barry Lewis captures the rapid growth and stark inequality of Atlanta around its hosting of the 1996 Summer Olympics.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Photos celebrating indigenous Bolivian women in extreme sports

Photographer Celia D. Luna documents skaters, wrestlers and mountain climbers who also identify as 'cholitas' – a once derogatory term for indigenous women who endured decades of discrimination, but have come to represent an integral part of Bolivian national identity.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

Photos capturing life in the aftermath of the Iraq War

The cost of war — Twenty years on from the beginning of the US-led invasion, Moises Saman's photographs show the scale of the destruction and loss faced by Iraqi civilians – as well as their resilience.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

Brutal portraits showing the realistic side of pro-wrestling

Photographer Michael Watson explains how his candid backstage images capture the raw energy and larger than life personalities of some of wrestling's biggest stars.

  • Photography
  • Sean Neumann

A photographic celebration of love in the Middle East

Collecting images taken by a range of photographers between the late 1960's and early 2022, 'An Archive of Love' searches beyond the unrest for manifestations of love in all its forms.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Larry Sultan’s surreal scenes of 1980's SoCal suburbia

Revealing the idiosyncratic flow of ordinary life, Sultan's portraits of his parents in the 1980's captured the American Dream and revolutionised narrative photography.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

In photos: the golden age of New York City's graffiti scene

Photographing works everywhere from subway cars in Brooklyn to buildings in The Bronx, Martha Cooper immortalises an often overlooked art form in its 1980's heyday.

  • Art
  • Miss Rosen

In photos: the glorious heyday of the Empire Roller Disco

On one night in February 1980 Photographer Patrick D. Pagnano captured the heart of New York at the Empire Roller Disco. A new book of the same name brings those photos to the world after being lost to archives for close to 40 years writes Isaac Muk.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

Inside the factories and tower blocks of industrialised China

In his new photobook Common Dreams, Kai Löffelbein was able to gain entry to the factories at the heart of China's rapid modernisation. Here Isaac Muk speaks to the photographer about the lives, hopes and humanity of those he encountered.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

The drag night at the heart of LGBTQ rights in Namibia

Amid a growing LGBTQ+ civil rights movement and multiple Supreme Court hearings that represent a crucial moment for equality in the country, Drag Night Namibia provides a space for queer joy and solidarity.

  • Activism
  • Chris de Beer-Procter

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