The Photo Issue 2011
In and Out of Bangu
In 2006, 34-year-old Maria “Show” Christina da Silva was sentenced to six years at the Talavera Bruce Women’s Prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She only served half of her sentence because Rio’s jails were so overcrowded that...
Morgue Maestros
Remigijus and Nerijus Diechkus are brothers whose day jobs consist of cutting apart and embalming human flesh at a morgue in Vilnius, Lithuania. They are also musicians—Remigijus is the vocalist for the black-metal band Dissimulation, while...
Night Sketches
I was essentially homeless when I took these photos. A friend of a friend needed someone to housesit in Stockwell, South London, while he was in China filming a documentary. Living there after being in North London all my life was like moving to...
Lo-Lifes Then and Now
In the late 80s, death was all around us in Brownsville and Marcus Garvey Village. We supported each other through some of the harshest times in Brooklyn’s history—crack was raging and guns went off daily. Before we were known as the Lo...
Posh Snow
Last winter, Martin Parr attended the 27th annual Polo World Cup on Snow in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The tournament was nice, but Martin was far more interested in the obscenely wealthy spectators wearing monocles
Night Sketches
I was essentially homeless when I took these photos. A friend of a friend needed someone to housesit in Stockwell, South London, while he was in China filming a documentary. Living there after being in North London all my life was like moving to...
Infatuated
We asked six members of the all-female photo collective the Ardorous (theardorous.com) to individually interpret that most nascent and mushy-gushy of romantic feelings: the crush