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Lens Culture attracts visitors from more than 100 countries every day.
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.
Battered
Some young people in the suburbs of Finland like to go out, get drunk, and fight. Harri Palviranta documents these scenes like a modern-day Weegee.
Photo Espana 2008: a preview
For a couple months every summer, the City of Madrid hosts one of the best photo festivals in the world. Here is a peak at what you can discover there in 2008.
Hamburg Sud
A small, poetic series of photographs all made on the same day in Hamburg.
Look 3 Festival of the Photograph
For the second year in a row, this new festival in Charlottesville, Virginia, is hosting on-stage interviews with some of today's best photographers. This year's line-up includes Mary Ellen Mark, James Nachtwey, and Joel-Peter Witkin.
Net Works
First she made art with Nylon stockings. Now Elaine Duigenan is back with a quirky series of digital photograms made from vintage hairnets.
Mobile Phone Fortune Telling
Psychic/photographer Beth Lilly puts both talents to work one day per month, when she uses the camera on her mobile phone to predict the fortunes of strangers who call in from all over the world.
Deliver Me
Laura Noel takes a look at smokers who have recently become outcasts in health-conscious politically-correct societies.
Urban Tree Portraits
City trees in Buenos Aires show their individual character and awkward charm in this series of portraits by Emma Livingston.
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81 Preview Photos: 2008 Festival in Arles
Take a sneak peak of the eclectic mix of photography that will be shown at Les Rencontres d'Arles Photographie this summer, starting July 8 through September 14. Be sure to check out Lens Culture's high resolution slide show.
Serial No. 3817131
At an age when social, sexual, and educational explorations are at their highest point, the life of an eighteen-year-old Israeli girl is interrupted to serve in an army involved in daily conflict and war. Rachel Papo was inducted into the Israeli Army when she turned 18. Fifteen years later, armed only with her camera, she decided to go back to see if it was as bad as she remembered.
Hyper
The hypermarkets of France sometimes look like consumerism on steroids. Photographer Denis Darzacq takes it one step further with his series of "shoppers" flying and floating through the aisles like superheros or astronauts. And yes, they are real photographs, no tricks.
The Last Days of Higley
The American Southwest is slowly succumbing to the inevitable sprawl of suburban developments. Former resident Andrew Phelps documents the demise of a small rural town as it is bull-dozed into another massive, generic bedroom community.
Oblivion:
Los Angeles from the Air
David Maisel creates highly detailed aerial photographs of the densely packed sprawl of Los Angeles. Is it any wonder that it looks alien and uninviting?Contribute to lens culture!
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