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Putting a new spin on old histories as my ten year old daughter stands in for a youthful me-the one I remember and the one I was never quite allowed to be-"Stories, 1986-88" pairs deadpan portraits with short narrative texts to bring the past into the present as we relive and rewrite my childhood stories through a restorative approach to image-making and storytelling.

Since moving to New York from Kuwait City Maha Alasaker learned that the everyday American has no conception of what daily life is like for women in modern-day Kuwait. Seeking to address this, Alasaker began making portraits of women in their bedrooms and asking them about their lives. This intimate collection of environmental portraits provides a never-before-seen look at what it means to be a young woman in Kuwait.

A Crack in the World explores empathy for all sentient beings and the planet in the face of global warming.

American Psyche consists of visual metaphors mirroring Elssaser's emotional reactions to America's colonialism and it still lasting effects.

Kingdom of Sand and Cement by Peter Bogaczewicz explores the challenges Saudi Arabia faces today as it rapidly transforms from a conservative and tribal desert culture to an influential world power. In less than a century the Saudis have experienced profound change as they transitioned from living in traditional mud buildings to commencing work on the world's tallest skyscraper. Examining this legacy through large-format color photographs, Peter Bogaczewicz documents a country of sharp contrasts where visual traces of an old reticent society can be seen in the midst of a burgeoning modern culture reflecting the ambitious agenda of the new King and his charismatic son and successor, the Crown Prince, a decisive risk-taker whose bold policies have received a warm welcome by some, yet have alienated others.

Family Amnesia honors the current and past stories of immigrant workers in the U.S. and examines the impact that the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act continues to have on the Chinese immigrant experience. This is a painful part of our American history. Betty Yu reclaims that narrative through her own personal family’s story.

The book addresses an enviornmental and public health crisis in the Imperial Valley of California. The photographs provide a portrait of the Salton Sea in 2018: the first year after water transfers to the lake ceased. From this year forward, playa exposure will escalate and toxic dust in the wind will increase

This is the story in pictures of Atlantic City, the iconic American shore resort, as it emerges from its latest crisis. The city of 40,000 people has been through many transformations in its history: 19th-Century health retreat, Prohibition-Era speakeasy, mid-century nightclub hub and East Coast gambling Mecca. The near-depression of the late 2000s and increasing competition from the spread of gambling across the country upended many schemes of casino impresarios and other developers. Many blocks of the city were leveled for casinos that never opened. The rate of defaults on home loans was the highest in the nation for a time. At the lowest point of the financial crisis the State of New Jersey took over the city's finances. Now it seems the tables may have begun to turn. These pictures are an attempt to capture the city and the people who live there.

N O K documents how American military families cope with loss and memory through the handling of personal effects.

Beach Lovers is a series of intimate moments shared by couples at the beaches of  NYC. These moments hold intimate gestures of couples; some tender, rubbing sunscreen on a partner's back; others lustful, a deep kiss in the water. Being amongst the waves and sand emboldens couples to enjoy more affectionate freedom, their inhibitions less hidden than anywhere else observed in the city. Beach Lovers is about the public display of intimacy between couples from diverse backgrounds, a claiming of public space for private tenderness.

Over the course of the pandemic, Jon Plasse photographed familiar objects around his home. The resulting series, in turns subtle and startling, evokes the intensity, monotony and disorientation of life in isolation.

For years Northern New Mexicös dominant Hispanic population has erected powerful and poignant descansos or roadside memorials to remember family and friends killed in automobile accidents. Mortal Highway offers an intimate view in photographs and verse into the lives of families who find expression of their grief in these increasingly elaborate works of art. The photographs bring into focus details of the descansos and anchor the memorials in the physical context of the dramatic high desert landscape of the Southwest.

Prophetic Kingdom is an ongoing photographic investigation exploring scenes of the everyday and overlooked. The images give an allegorical nod towards a prophesied postlapsarian world.

An expanded account of the Holocaust told through the lens of an experimental documentary. -- Jason Francisco * Jason Francisco *

Viewing Distance compiles and transforms declassified material from US government archives to examine photography as a tool of the military-industrial complex for reconnaissance, surveillance, and documentation of advanced technologies. While many of the source images for this body of work date back to the middle 20th century, they have only recently been released and much information remains secret. These pictures represent the decades-long time delay from when knowledge comes into being and when it becomes publicly accessible. The Cold War period that much of the material originates from is a significant turning point in photography's technological development and use for intelligence gathering. The book combines photographs pertaining to the clandestine innovations and operations of that era with contemporary documents and devices, connecting past and present. Processes including analog printing, digital collage, scanner manipulation, and data bending are used to animate the archival material. Through this disruption and layering, historical fragments are presented in a state of flux, open to alternate associations and implications. What we are allowed to know and see is often incomplete and indeterminate, encouraging speculation and critical vision.

In stark contrast, the photographs in Volume II (subtitled The Present) were taken over a period of seven years and concern the area that I now call home: a rugged and remote location on the western edge of the Great Basin. Again it is centered primarily upon Winter (as in the first volume), but the imagery is broader in scope and describes more of a seasonal arc - from the late dry season, when the cows come in from their high desert grazing allotments, when fire danger is at its peak and there are fresh burn scars, up through the deep Winter and then on into the thaw/melt period.

Made at a swimming hole in Philadelphia where bathing is illegal, the Devil's Pool photographs recognize the human need to revel in our physical selves and commune with the natural world.

Hanford Nuclear Reservation produced plutonium for four decades, initially for the Trinity Test and the atomic bomb in the Second World War. -- Glenna Cole Allee * Glenna Cole Allee *

An artistic examination of nuclear issues, drawing on the ontology of the photographic image that bears witness to process and attempts to make visible the invisible

Although change is slow, it is the rural/small-town south as it is NOW. An honest look at small towns in the rural south -- Peter Stitt * Peter Stitt *

Drawing upon Robin Dahlberg's own experiences as a junior lawyer at a large corporate law firm, "Billable Hours in 6-Minute Increments" explores the obstacles facing women in the corporate workplace. With a sense of the absurd that Dahlberg only discovered in hindsight, she examines how women lawyers respond to the sexism, pressure to conform, tedium and stress that defined her daily life at the law firm and that continue to define the corporate work environment today.

A photobook on the North Korea with a surrealistic fine art take on the country while raising some important questions on freedom and daily lives of its people

Olde Kensington, a small neighborhood just north of Center City Philadelphia, was predominantly a post-industrial area when I moved in, yet ominous signs of imminent change seemed to indicate that the fate of the place rested in other hands.Muddling my way through the unfamiliar streets on foot, the city seemed to push and pull me in this direction or that one, like it was leading me somewhere. Sometimes I resisted, others I followed, but I never caught a glimpse of my secret guide, who insisted on remaining shrouded in the empty spaces of the city.As a record of these ambulations, this work limns the tension between the extant and the imminent, the intervalic experience of living in a city in flux, and a complicated relationship to place.

Fauxliage documents the proliferation of disguised cell phone towers in the American West. By attempting to conceal an unsightly yet essential technology of the modern world, our landscapes now contain a quirky mosaic of masquerading palms, evergreens, flagpoles, crosses, and cacti. Technology is modifying our environment with idiosyncratic results. The often-whimsical tower disguises belie the equipment''s covert ability to collect valuable personal data.

"Home Fires, Volume I: The Past" is a personal look into the bare bones of Winter in San Joaquin Valley, compounded by the skeletal effects of an epic drought, underpinned by memory and the ghosts of childhood lost.

A photographer becomes a mother and photographs her children for 30 years with a 1950's Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera and color film. Carole Glauber's dream-like photographs in "Personal History" deal with themes of love, of raising children, of travel, and of family.