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Gallery


09.02.10: Photo by Teun Voeten

Hell Under Wheels
Photo from Teun Voeten's newly reissued book on New York's Tunnel People.
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08.17.10: Photo by Susannah Sayler/The Canary Project

Hot Mountain
Photo documenting the effects of climate change in Peru, by Susannah Sayler of The Canary Project.
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08.05.10: Photo by Greg Constantine

Nubians Then and Now
Image of Nubian homes in the Kibera area of Nairobi by Greg Constantine.
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07.28.10: Photo by Pieter Hugo

Permanent Error
Photo by Pieter Hugo of Ghana's Agbogbloshie slum.
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07.14.10: Patrick Chappatte

Study in Contrasts
Cartoon commentary on 2010 World Cup by Patrick Chappatte.
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07.08.10: Mike Sinclair

Midway at the Oasis
Photo of Neshoba County Fair, Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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06.09.10: Julie Lasky

Protect Me from What I Want
Photo in memory of Tobias Wong.
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05.24.10: Elizabeth Helman Minchilli, Annie Schlechter

Rome Sustainable Food Project
Alice Waters has been working tirelessly to change the way we eat in America. Four years ago, she sent chef Mona Talbott overseas to reform the kitchens of the American Academy in Rome.
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03.16.10: Jason Orton

Tinder Boxes

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03.09.10: Lyle Owerko

The Butterfly People

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01.21.10: Mitch Epstein

Why Not in My Backyard?
Mitch Epstein's photo of Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond City, West Virginia 2004, from his book American Power (Steidl, 2009).
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01.05.10: Rick Landesberg

The Bleating Edge
Rick Landesberg's photo of an innovative design in Haiti for keeping goats in their place.
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12.18.09: Jason Orton

All That Remains
Jason Orton's photograph of a tree in Dartford, Kent, one of few left over from a lush arboretum.
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11.21.09: By Dona Ann McAdams

Milking It
Dona Ann McAdams photograph featured in an exhibition at the Opalka Gallery in Albany, New York.
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11.04.09: By Alexis Rockman

Hot Times in the Old Town
East 82nd Street, 2007, painting from Alexis Rockman's American Icons series depicting future landscapes ravaged by climate change
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10.29.09: Lindsay Stark

Renewal
Aid worker Lindsay Stark's portrait of the ritual purification of a child soldier in Sierra Leone.
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10.06.09: Justin Partyka

The East Anglians
Image from photographer Justin Partyka's series, The East Anglians, about the decline of rural culture in the UK.
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10.05.09: William Drenttel

Better World by Design Poster
A recent poster by Winterhouse for the A Better World by Design conference at RISD/Brown in early October 2009.
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09.09.09: Inkahoots

Australians All Let Us Text
"New Anthems" art project by Inkahoots for Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane, Australia.
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08.22.09: Richard Ross

No Place Like Home
Image from photographer Richard Ross's latest project, "Suitable Placement: Juvenile Justice in America"
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08.18.09: Teun Voeten

Under Cover
Teun Voeten photograph of Kabul, Afghanistan, 2007. The situation for widows in Afghanistan is desperate...
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08.18.09: Teun Voeten

Hell in a Horse Cart
Photo of coal merchant in Shanxi Province, China, by Teun Voeten.
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08.07.09: Jason Orton

Going Coastal
Photo of Holliwell Point, Essex County, England by Jason Orton.
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07.29.09: Taryn Simon

Blue Note
Nuclear Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility Cherenkov Radiation, Hanford Site, U.S. Department of Energy, Southeastern Washington State. Photograph by Taryn Simon.
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