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Lens Culture is an online magazine celebrating international contemporary photography, art, media, and world cultures.
Discover photography from all continents and various points of view: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, poetic, personal, abstract, human, and street photography.
Read essays, analysis and criticism about photography and culture.
Listen to audio interviews with photographers.
Enjoy reviews of exhibitions and photo books.
Buy very cool 21st century photography at our new online store.
Lens Culture attracts visitors from more than 100 countries every day.
Everyone My Brother Knows in Girdwood, Alaska
Laura Domela captures affectionate hyper-real portraits
of the characters who live in her brother's small home town in Alaska.
Arles Photo Festival Preview
See more than 90 preview photos from the largest photo festival in Europe— now in its 40th year.
Karambolage/
Smash-up
Arnold Odermatt was a police photograper in a small Swiss canton for more than 40 years. He often took two sets of photographs at the scenes of accidents: one standard shot for the police, and more artful photographs for his own collection.
Zidlicky
Retrospective
A new, beautifully printed book celebrates a 30-year retrospective of the dream-like artwork of Czech photographer Vladimir Zidlicky.
Women
at Work
Young Finnish photographer Joel Gräfnings is working on a series of photographs focusing on women who work in male-dominated environments.
Boarding
House
The latest book from South African photographer Roger Ballen is both beautiful and disturbing. In an exclusive audio interview, Ballen talks about this new work.
Domésticas
Slovakian documentary photographer Andrej Balco explores
the oddly entwined relationships between masters and servants in wealthy
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Laurie Lambrecht:
Inside Roy Lichtenstein's Studio
American photographer Laurie Lambrecht spent three years taking pictures in the studio of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. Her photographs offer us a rare and intimate look into the creative working processes of one of the 20th Century's most prominent artists. 
Stefania Gurdowa:
Negatives Are To Be Stored
A new book features extraordinary glass-negative portraits from the recently rediscovered archive of little-known Polish photographer Stefania Gurdowa, who died in 1968. Her unnamed, unknown subjects of all ages look out at us like living history.
Andrzej Kramarz: Rzeczy (Things)
Polish photographer Andrzej Kramarz spent two-and-a-half years making pictures of eclectic collections and bizarre jumbles of objects he discovered at flea markets in Krakow.
Adam Panczuk: Actors
Images of a disappearing culture: Polish photographer Adam Panczuk is documenting the transformation of Polish village life. This series offers some beautiful images of folk-theatre performers.
Carlo Gianferro: Roma Interiors
Carlo Gianferro won a first prize at the World Press Photo Awards for his portraits of wealthy Roma families at home in their new opulent interiors.