Photography

December 17, 2025

Otherworldly Scenes of Underwater Wildlife Captured in a Single-Breath Dive [Interview]

In Matt Draper’s mind, there isn’t a single subject that’s more unpredictable, and thus rewarding, than the ocean. For more than a decade, the photographer has plunged into the sea, resurfacing with delicate, monochromatic snapshots of the marine animals that live below. While underwater, nothing is staged, nothing is guaranteed, and every second must be treated with both agility and sensitivity—lest the moment falter in front of the camera.

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December 14, 2025

Photographic Retrospective Offers an Evocative, Fantastical Journey Through Mexico in 200+ Images

When a 27-year-old Graciela Iturbide enrolled at the Centrode Estudios Cinematográficos in 1969, she had at first intended to become a film director. It didn’t take long, though, for Iturbide to abandon that path altogether and instead veer toward photography. Within a year, she was working under Mexican modernist Manuel Álvarez Bravo, accompanying him on various photographic journeys across Mexico.

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December 5, 2025

After 50 Years of Civil War, Photographer Captures the Untold Stories of Young Lebanese Women

A few years ago, Rania Matar returned to Lebanon, the country in which she was born but had fled nearly four decades earlier amid the civil war. She weaved through abandoned buildings alongside a young Lebanese woman, whom she intended to photograph for an upcoming project. Suddenly, the pair noticed something: graffiti scrawled across a crumbling wall, plaintively asking لوين روح؟ (Where do I go?).

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November 28, 2025

Photographer Blurs His Subjects to the Point of Psychedelic Abstraction

On a seemingly random day in 1997, Bill Armstrong spun the focus ring on his camera to infinity and captured an image. At that point, he had worked as a photographer for more than 20 years, shooting found collages composed of torn posters that he’d scavenge from the streets. This new photograph, however, was unlike anything he’d ever created before—it was blurry, hazy, an almost painterly abstraction of its subject.

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