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Looking at Ben Pier's Photos Is Better Than Eating Burritos or Wanking to Pornhub

I'm working on a new book, which means I have to go out and shoot a ton of stuff. So this set is a look into that process at its earliest stage. Full story

It Was Halloween in Chicago Last Night

With all this hullabaloo about Frankenstorms and such, there's a sense that Halloween has been put on the back burner for those on the East Coast. Zak Arctander showed us what went down in Chicago, where they didn't forget what day it was. Full story

Photographing the Towns Communist Romania Forgot

Ioana Cîrlig and Marin Raica plan to travel around the heavily-industrialized areas left after the Communist period, documenting the lives of the people who ex-Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu turned from farmers into miners, then left bankrupt after his misguided, Socialist… Full story

Guns, God, and No Democrats at Knob Creek

Two weekends ago I was at Knob Creek Gun Range, a weaponry Mecca in West Point, Kentucky, that holds a biannual event that is sort of like a comic book convention where everyone is cosplaying as someone from 'Call of Duty.' A person could view, buy, sell, or rent weaponry that’s… Full story

The Punks in Olympia Haven't Aged a Bit

Ben Trogdon's photographs the music scene in Olympia, Washington, which doesn't seem to have changed that much from the days when Kurt Cobain was strolling around, shooting junk, dyeing his hair with Kool-Aid, and writing 'Bleach.' Full story

That Was Some Blow Job

In case you just woke up from a coma in Montana (if so, congrats!) and haven't heard, the Eastern Seaboard of the United States got fucked up real bad last night. Hurricane Sandy, a massive orgy of three separate weather systems, made us wait around, nervously eating half our rat… Full story

Something Fishy

The Strange Rewards and Follies of Bristol Bay’s Great Salmon Run

Deep in Southwest Alaska lies an abandoned salmon cannery known as Graveyard Point. Every summer fishermen converge on this area. Great fortunes can be earned or lost here, depending on a man's luck. I’ve fished here for the past four years, taking these photos along the way. Full story

Gordon Holden's Rhode Island

It's a little hard to hype up Gordon Holden's photography. He doesn't take pictures of people on fire in warzones, heavy metal cowboys from Botswana or hulking, dilapidated post-space age architecture. But the pictures he does snare from around his home in Rhode Island are calm, Full story

Ola Rindal's Untold Story

Ola Rindal was born in a small town in the Norwegian countryside. He left to study in Sweden before settling in Paris in 2001, where he has lived ever since. Ola is one of those gems who is more known outside of his own country, a national treasure in the diaspora. His new book, Full story

The Furtastic Adventures of the Cabbit and the Folf

For this series, I photographed Belgian, Dutch, French, and German members of the furry fandom, where adults transform themselves into animals by wearing plush costumes. I have chosen to photograph the characters in their own living rooms, making them appear like actors on a stag… Full story

The Apocalypse Has Come Early to Athens, Greece

Photographer Dimitrs Kleanthris wanted to show just how bad its gotten in Greece, so he climbed to the top of the lofty hotels and high-rise apartments of Athens and snapped photos of people milling about in quiet desperation on the streets below. Full story

Mexico City's Miniature Michael Jacksons

I walked into the office today to find a gold envelope containing a small photo book by Will Sanders called 'Halloween,' which is full of kids in Mexico City dressed up as Michael Jackson. If anything's going to nudge a bit of the spooky joy of All Hallow's Eve back into my heart… Full story

Going Really Down Under

Photographer Jared O'Sullivan shows us the sometimes beautiful underbelly of Australia. He insists that the pictures are meant to be a “celebration of life separate from commercial and material gain.” The shit’s still pretty weird in our opinion. Full story

Photographing London's Little Worlds

Daniel Stier is a German photographer who's been living in London for the last 15 years and still hasn't stopped finding the portly African women in their taffetas fascinating. Inspired by them, he roamed around the city's ex-pat communities, looking for people to take photos of Full story