In “Jaidë,” or “House of Spirits,” the Colombian photographer Santiago Mesa documents a remote people facing a rash of youth suicides.

In a recent book, “Èkó,” the photographer Ollie Babajide Tikare captures the messiness and hope of the Nigerian city.

In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was.

The thirty-year-old star photographer became famous for his reference-rich images of Black beauty, but his strongest work suggests a tender eye for imperfection.

The late British photographer was drawn to outsider subcultures, among them the working-class youths known as Teds.