In the summer of 2018, electric scooters took over the streets of Santa Monica, California. What began as a photography project capturing riders in action soon became a visual record of a city adjusting to a new form of transportation. From abandoned scooters to creative acts of protest, Summer for the Birds documents an unusual chapter in Santa Monica’s street life.
Category Archive: Documentary
An unexpected invitation to a village wedding in rural Gujarat, India, became an unforgettable evening for photographer Virginia Hines. Armed with her camera and welcomed into the celebration, she captured the people, traditions, and spontaneous moments that remind us why some of the best photographic opportunities come to us unplanned.
A couple who have visited 110 countries examine what’s behind this mounting problem.
Wayne Crichlow & Wayne Campbell document the culture, traditions, and communities behind the Notting Hill Carnival.
Whenever I am away from Srinagar, I find myself missing downtown. Not just the locality where I live, but the whole downtown. I have never thought of it as separate...
What’s it like to visit the only major market in Egypt dedicated to camel trade? Yasser takes us along for the journey.
Quite possibly the only photographic compilation which documents the world of rural carboneros at night in Cuba or elsewhere by John Rosenmiller.
In the wake of a senseless attack, Andrew Stark returned to his negatives.
Photography is how Pia Parolin stays connected to people and places, and to responsibility.
More than just a popular gesture, Cary Silverman’s project documents the birth of a new visual language in a connected age.
Francisco Prieto portrays nightlife as a system – queues, intoxication, fast-food rituals, exhaustion on the pavement.
“You don’t visit Mississippi,” says James Hazelwood. “It visits you.”