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Inside Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

Flare pollution — Wayan Barre began photographing life in the 85-mile petrochemical industry corridor after moving to New Orleans. He found defiant activists, health problems and impoverishment.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

Swan Moon’s cinematic portrait of growing up Korean in ’90s Los Angeles

Self reflections — Picking up her first camera at the age of eight, the photographer took countless shots of her life, friends and city to help make sense of her surroundings. Her new photobook looks back on those formative years.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Greer Lankton’s dolls are more human than you think

Could It Be Love — A staple figure in New York’s ’80s East Village scene, her art shocked and confronted. Now, three decades after her death, a new monograph anthologises her work, which explores the darker sides of human life, but also finds beauty within the strange.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

The brutal, unifying sporting spectacle of Buzkashi

Way of life — Popular across Central Asia and the national sport of Afghanistan, the equestrian game sees horse riders – sometimes hundreds – battle to secure a goat hide and transport it to a goal. It’s extreme and theatrical, but also brings people together, writes Rob Corsini.

  • Sport
  • Rob Corsini
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Glaswegian life, captured over 80 years of redevelopment and flux

Still Glasgow — An expansive new GoMA exhibition, curated by Katie Bruce, explores culture and people in the Scottish city, from its post-war tenement communities to its busking musicians.

  • Culture
  • Zoe Whitfield
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In photos: The colourful, foreboding techno-optimism of the ’90s

A Visual History — Henry Carroll’s new book traces the roots of unfettered, present-day neoliberalism through images from the 20th century’s final decade, raising questions about how we arrived at where we are today.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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25 years ago, Reflections in Black changed photography

A History of Black Photographers — Deborah Willis’s photobook anthologised pictures made by James Van Der Zee, Anthony Barboza and other groundbreaking Black photographers from when the medium was invented. A new edition updates it with 21st century contributions.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Despite volatility, Syrian artists are painting brighter futures through the haze

After the fall — Just over a full year since the collapse of Assad’s dictatorship, the country’s political and social outlook remains fragile. But a new outlook means a blank slate, and a grassroots arts scene is blossoming. Jessie Williams meets the photographers, painters and sculptors forging a new path.

  • Culture
  • Jessie Williams

Seeing double at the Ohio Twins Days Festival

Unity in diversity — Each August, thousands of twins and multiples descend upon the city of Twinsburg to celebrate their siblings and the wider twin community. Harmony Ferreira was one of the few singletons at the weekender, capturing its quirky, but meaningful energy.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
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Coreen Simpson’s sweeping, half-century archive of Black America

A Monograph — A go-to photographer for several outlets, she captured stars such Grace Jones and Jean-Michel Basquiat, but also church ladies, club partygoers and b-boys. Her debut photobook provides a wide-ranging survey of her work.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

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