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The Polaroid Kidd Has a Photo Show in NYC Today
Train-hopping photographer Mike Brodie is an authentic, unschooled genius, and his new book is a record of his years on the road. He estimates that he's covered 50,000 miles, and his photos are documents of what Woody Guthrie used to call "hard travelin'," snapshots of living the high and the low life: kids eating fruit out of dumpsters; girls hanging out in country squats; broken necks; the freedom of cruising in the bed of a pickup truck or setting out on the open… Full story
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Photographing the Children of Romania's Communist Estates
During the communist period, housing estates were built all over Romania in an attempt to provide homes for workers. However, once the revolution came and capitalism swept in, the buildings were forgotten about and fell into disrepair. Full story
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Bucharest Is a Paradise
According to legend, the capital of Romania takes its name from some guy named Bucur who was either a prince, an outlaw, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a hunter. It's hard to understand how the truth could have gotten so muddled over the years, but it doesn't matter now because Buch… Full story
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Give Shane Deegan a Job
Shane Deegan is a photographer from London who thought it would be overindulgent for him to write a couple of sentences about himself and his work to go with this set of pictures. How aware of his own work is he? I don't know. But he did want me to tell you that he's available fo… Full story
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Inside the Abandoned Radioactive Towns of Japan
Photographer Toshiya Watanabe's family lived in Namie, a town in the fallout zone of the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant meltdown, which is now abandoned two years later. Toshiya has gone back to document the changes, or lack thereof, that he sees in his forgotten hometown. Full story
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Moscow Is a Paradise
It's easy to think of Moscow as a city of mausoleums, giant Lenin statues, and propaganda art museums, but photographer Igor Baranchuk insists his hometown is about so much more than post-communist sadness. Full story
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Off the Red Carpet
I live in LA, so I figured I should probably watch the Oscar's red carpet situation in person. I strolled over to Hollywood Boulevard all easy breezy and proud of myself for having made it out of the house. I had to take the subway and everything, but apparently that wasn't good Full story
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The 'Everyday America' Exhibition Was Like a Photo Mausoleum
'Everyday America' is a photographic exhibition that just opened up at the Steven Kasher Gallery with an exalted line-up comprised largely of dead guys. I went to check out the opening hoping they might wheel out some decrepit arty corpses as part of the celebration. Full story
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We Saw This: A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ferg, The Flatbush Zombies, and Bodega Bamz
We've written so many damn articles and shot so many damn videos about these guys and what they're doing, we've kind of run out of shit to say. So we sent fancy photographer Don Brodie to their show at Public Assembly in Brooklyn to snap some choice pics, instead. Full story
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Wait, Are These Taxi Drivers Sleeping or Dead?
Hailing a cab in Mumbai can freak you the fuck out. Full story
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Christian Patterson and the Trail of Dead
In 1958, Charlie Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate murdered Caril’s family and hit the road on a two-month killing spree. This month, Christian Patterson releases the third pressing of his acclaimed photography book, inspired by the spree. Full story
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And This Is How Bulgarians Scare Evil Spirits Away
Kukeri is a traditional Bulgarian ritual that takes place in an attempt to scare away evil spirits and bring good harvest and health to the community for the year. They do this by imitating sex and giving birth and wearing massive wooden dicks around their waists. Full story
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Is Gerry Johansson the World's Most Antisocial Photographer?
One of Sweden's most acclaimed photographers, Gerry Johansson takes photos of places created by people, but only when they're totally empty. It might sound kind of lonely, but if you like to imagine the weird lives of strangers all over the planet, then Gerry's pictures are the p… Full story
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Let's Play Darts!
Who are these fancy dressed morons? Who gave them those signs? Who are the fat men? Why does throwing darts at a wall make them sweat? Why do they all look like they spend their Sundays drinking alone in dive bars? Oh, they're the future of sport. Oh, I see. Full story
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