Barely There

Cammie Toloui

Prompted by a class assignment while studying to be a photojournalist, Cammie Toloui's images of her experiences while working in the Private Pleasures booth at Lusty Lady in San Francisco are double-edged swords: the customers are revealed in the sharpest and most erect view, while Toloui is scantily reflected in the window that divides her from them.

—mamita

          

LA Times

The LA Times takes us to Norte, a Manila cemetery that 50,000 Filipinos (including one Hermogenes Soliman) call home

—martian

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Love, Drugs And Love

Bryan Derbella

They tell you at rehab meetings that once an addict, always an addict. True enough. But Bryan Derballa's multimedia piece on Jason Andrades, a young and eloquent dope pusher, proves there are forces stronger than addiction.

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Cast Away

Globe and Mail

Roger Cox, a self-proclaimed "functional alcoholic," lives next to a log on a Vancouver beach. He also carves soapstone statues that sell for buku bucks.

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Quantized Quality

Anne-Marie Jackson

Anne-Marie Jackson produces a breath-freshening light-hearted piece documenting Camp Quality, a camp specialized for children with cancer. 

—mamita

Rochester Recounting

Democrat and Chronicle

Will Yurman presents an overwhelming grid of faces—all victims of homicide in Rochester, NY—in order of and during the 2007 calendar year.

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Voting Machine Elects Itself Prez

Onion

Well, that's better than electing McCain.

—mondo 

 

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Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

Magnum In Motion

Magnum photog Patrick Zachman finds himself drifting through city streets lit by neon signs.

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Pall Of America

Time

Mall of America empty? Must be the sign of a sound economy.

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A Modeled Shoot

Vice

You've heard it before, that saying, "everyone is a photographer." Richard Kern assures us by way of photo experiment, not so much.  

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Florida's Living History

St. Pete Times

Photographer Kainaz Amaria documents the personal stories of Florida voters during an election that shattered racial precedents.

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More Ghosts Of Tom Joad

Washington Post

Every year in rural Virginia, thousands of uninsured and underinsured seek medical care at a three-day-long field clinic.

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South Side Story

Chicago Tribune  

The Tribune takes us to a South Side housing project to hear the story of one of its residents, eleven-year-old Everett Johnson. Unfortunately, Johnson's tale is not unique to this community, where poverty is rampant and violence is the norm.

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Coming To Life

Jonathan Clark

I was mildly impressed with Clark's photos: wide-open shots of angels [sometimes headless and limbless] and the statuary that "live" in Streatham cemetery, all photographed over the course of four seasons, and separated respectively.

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Making The Invisible Visible

NY Times

A Penn State prof uses something called "schlieren" photography to capture colorful images of a human cough, the shock waves from an explosion, even a dog's sniff.

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