The Life of a Young Distance Runner
By Ian Blair
Influenced by his own amateur track endeavors, the photographer Mark Davis began taking pictures of Edward Cheserek in 2012.
The Pope’s New York Tour in Photos
By The New Yorker
Photographs by Jonno Rattman of the second leg of the pontiff’s visit to the United States.
The Secret Lives of Museum Guards
By The New Yorker
Portraits by Alec Soth show guards from the Minneapolis Institute of Art communing with their favorite works.
Giving Birth in Different Worlds
By Janet Elise Johnson
Portraits of mothers in labor in Tanzania and Sweden capture an extreme disparity in maternal health.
The Bitter Legacy of Canada’s Forced-Assimilation Boarding Schools
By Laurence Butet-Roch
The portrait series “Signs of Your Identity” reckons with the loss of Canada's native traditions and languages.
Maïmouna Guerresi’s Mystical Portraiture
By Andrea DenHoed
After moving to Senegal and converting to Islam, the Italian photographer developed a style fed by the mysticism of Sufism and the experimental spirit of the Body Art movement.
An Unfinished Prison Story
By The New Yorker
Danny Lyon reflects on the decades since the publication of his seminal portrait of prison life.
Homemade Hollywood Portraits
By Aline Smithson
With a nineteen-sixties Rolleiflex, a single hot light, and some red nail polish and lipstick, ordinary people are transformed into vintage starlets.
Massimo Vitali at the Vatican
By The New Yorker
The large-format master visits Vatican City.
Matthew Pillsbury’s Mesmerizing Summer
By The New Yorker
The large-format photographer captures the drama and social energy of seasonal events in New York City.