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 Hydrology: Visions in Ice
Remarkable, organic, and complexly chaotic still life photographs of formations in ice, by Douglas Capron.
 Claimed: Landscape
Alexis Pike explores the delicate balance of the scenic and the mundane, and documents the way ideals of picturesque landscapes literally overlap conventional structures in the American West.
 Roger Ballen
talks about his art
In this engaging 10-minute video interview, Roger Ballen talks about psychology, metaphor, controversy and art in photography. From the new video series, Lens Culture: Conversations with Photographers.
 Useless Things
Leopoldo Plentz makes large-scale scanner art from crumpled, discarded, anthropomorphic pieces of junk he finds in the streets.
 Southern Depictions
Wonderfully rich and quirky portraits by Donna Pinckley of young kids at play.
 The Cinemas Project
Aging single-screen cinema theaters of Bombay are lovingly documented by Zubin Pastakia.
 Somerset Stories — Fivepenny Dreams
In her new photobook, Venetia Dearden explores the tough, vanishing ways of life of subsistence farmers and travelling communities in England.
 kai fàng
Kate Shortt travelled through China in 2006 to photograph everyday heroes, now in their eighties and nineties, who are silent survivors of decades of politcal repression.
 Beyond History
Vincent Delbrouck's book, subtitled "poetic documentary versus dirty realism" is an odd, unsatisfying mixture of self-indulgence with a handful of decent photos.
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In this great 8-minute video interview, British Photographer Simon Roberts talks about his in-depth visual studies of people and the places they live. "I want to create a series of pictures that you want to look at longer... and are rewarded for the more time you look at it." 
Discover the work of 40 contemporary Korean photographers who were chosen to represent the current state of Korean art for large-scale exhibitions at The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. 
Priya Kambli's artful combinations of vintage photos, contemporary photos, colors and textures visually express the notion of transience and split cultural identity caused by the act of migration — in this case from India to the US. 
Ride is more of a visual poem than a photo documentary. Claire Bayrasy made this series of photos from inside cramped narrow motorcycle taxis that she took to work each morning in Beijing. 
Bongin Bongin Bay and its surroundings in northern Sydney Australia provide the raw material for this magical series of diptychs. Photographer David Helsham often juxtaposes found objects he discovered on the beach – from discarded toys, to shoes, to skulls – with views of the bay in all weathers and seasons.
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