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Photo Essay

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

The photographer and writer behind new photo book 'American Backyard' talk about the misrepresentation of border towns and what it's like living on contentious land.
By Mariana Fernandez

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

Six years in the making, Chloe Aftel’s new book, 'Outside & In Between,' showcases an expansive photographic series celebrating the genderqueer and non-binary community.
By Sara Radin
Dario Calamese, No. 155 from the series Amongst Friends.

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

'She's a study in the art of living, of doing things on your own time and surrounding yourself with beauty,' photographer Calmese said of his muse.
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

Towers of Power: These 9/11 Vets Responded to Terror by Giving Back

By The Editors
All photos are from the book Beaches, published by Abrams.

These Helicopter Photos of Beach Umbrellas Create Eye-Popping Patterns

By Gray Malin

Photo Essay: A Year Inside the Pot Growing Industry

By Kaitlyn Flannagan
RNC.

A Tale of Two Conventions in 11 Remarkable Photos

By Ron Haviv
Teleprompter at Republican National Convention. (T) Teleprompter a Democratic National Convention. (B) PHOTO CREDIT: Ron Haviv

Use Your Words: Larger-Than-Life Convention Speeches

By Ron Haviv
Rich Clarkson

They Shoot, They Score: Winning Examples of Sports Photojournalism

By Gail Buckland
Lewis with actor Jack Black.

Photo Essay: On Set With a Celebrity Photographer

By Emily Assiran
A protestor in a coffee shop, waiting out the tear gas attack in Taksim Square.

Occupy Wall Street and Gezi Park: Two Cities, One Protest

By Emine Gozde Sevim
Britta McNeal cries as she sees her son for the first time after he was shot to death. Chaise Sherrors, 17, was shot and killed on Detroit's East Side just weeks after his good friend JeíRean Nobles was shot to death in the same neighborhood. McNeal lost her 14-year-old son a year earlier, also shot. Detroit's East Side is the poorest, most violent part of the nationís poorest, most violent big city. Chaise Sherrors was giving a haircut on a porch when he was shot. Summary: A Detroit Requiem DetroitÖthe word alone incites many emotions within Americaís conscience.† Detroit was the epicenter for financial equality in the U.S., the home front for the ideal of well-paying jobs for the masses and a political force behind a strong middle class.† Henry Ford made Detroit a boomtown.† Five decades after he started, the boom began to bust.† Many reasons are at the heart of Detroitís decline: postwar industrial policies, urban planning, the 1967 race riots, UAW and auto industry management, Detroitís political cronyism, Clinton era trade deals, and quite possibly the mobility of the automobile itself.† It was the 1950ís when Detroit began the long decay that has brought the city to its present state, a time when Detroit, and America, was at its peak. Today, Detroit is Americaís poorest large city.† To avoid being the nationís perpetual murder capital, the police began cooking stats.† In 2008, they claimed 306 homicides ñ until The Detroit News discovered that there were actually 375.† In more than 70 percent of murders in Detroit, the killer got away with it.† Detroitís East Side is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americaís poorest, most violent big city.† The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent.† The shooting death of seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones by police on Detroitís East Side brought national attention to this quarter over the summer of 2010.† But as the spotlight

These Three Photos Sum Up Gun Violence in America

By Danny Wilcox Frazier
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) speaks at a campaign rally at Palace Theater on February 8, 2016 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Sanders is won the New Hampshire democratic primary.

Beginning of the End: Capturing the Campaign in Six Photos

By Ron Haviv
Portratis of Bolivian immigrants taken in NYC during celebrations. PHOTO: Leandro Viana

Balancing Act: How Immigrants in New York Cling to Their Culture

By Leandro Viana
Regina Gallagher Marengo, captain, navy photo: celeste sloman / city & state

Capturing Veterans: A Photo Essay

By Celeste Sloman

Down the Aisle With a Freed Slave

By Kamau Ware

The High Line Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

By Cody S. Brothers
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