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A Visual Education: What We See, What We RememberKen LightReflecting on a 50 year-long career in social documentary, Ken Light considers how photographs made in the urgency of the present gain new meaning with time, becoming invaluable records of the worlds we once inhabited.

Over the 50-odd years of his career, Ken Light has maintained an enthusiasm for photography and a ...

The Burning of AutumnMehrdad FathiA single match can destroy an entire forest—and in Mehrdad Fathi’s haunting cyanotypes, the humble matchbox becomes a vessel for remembering what we stand to lose.

In the autumn of 2025, the UNESCO-listed Hyrcanian forests of northern Iran began to burn. The forests, found along the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, are home to some of the w...

Muted Ember: Youth and Uncertainty in Industrial ChinaYue SunPhotographing the outskirts of his home city of Wuhai, China, Yue Sun captures a coal city in decline and a young generation caught in a state of uncertainty—their lives muted.

When the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, fewer than 500 people lived where Wuhai now stands. The small settlement of inner Mo...

The Great Escape: Street Photography as Visual HaikuBouwe BrouwerEmbarking on a poetic drift through his older work, Bouwe Brouwer builds a conversation between photographs from different corners of his archive that come together around the theme of ‘escape.’

Five. Seven. Five. That is the structure of a haiku. Three deceptively simple lines that capture a moment in time or a ...