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An image from the series, "American Backyard."

A Photo Series Shows What Life Is Like Along All 2,000 Miles of the US-Mexico Border

A New Book Celebrates Rejecting the Gender Binary With Powerful Photographic Portraits

By Sara Radin
Dario Calamese, No. 155 from the series Amongst Friends.

This Harlem Woman’s Sunday Best Turned Her Into a Style Icon

By Margaret Carrigan
Middle Mississippi

This Is What Traveling the Underground Railroad 150 Years Ago Might Have Looked Like

By Kaitlyn Flannagan
Dmytro Verholjak.

Photo Essay: Inside the Homes of WWII Veterans

By Kaitlyn Flannagan
Fox Run Farm. Millbrook, NY.

At the Millbrook Fox Hunt, Women Take the Reins

By Kaitlyn Flannagan and David Wallis
The United Sherpa Association in Elmhurst, Queens, founded in 1996 in a former Christian church, preserves Sherpa language, religion, culture and arts.

Photo Essay: Sherpas and the City

By Leandro Viana
In 1903, police found the corpse of counterfeiter Beneditto Madonia stuffed in a barrel, a favorite body disposal method of the Black Hand.

Arresting Images: Eye-Popping Photos from the NYPD’s Archives

By Bernard J. Whalen
“I did a movie called The Dictator, with Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley and Megan Fox, and I wasn’t out. And the New York Post outed me as a transsexual actress, which devastated me. I felt very discriminated against.”— Victoria Beltran

Transcendent Portraits of Trangender Christopher Street

By Mark Seliger
Juan Neira, Chavi Leon, Marco Vasquez and Edwin Amaro running on an afternoon free of school, 10 Apr 2016, Mott Haven, Bronx. All four boys attend different schools but live on the same block.

Photo Essay: The Secret Lives of South Bronx Teenagers

By Sarah Blesener
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