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Soldier

Who are the men and women who volunteer to fight in America's wars, and what do they look like after their first tours of duty?
Photographer Suzanne Opton provides some uncomfortably intimate portraits, and tells her story about this controversial work in an exclusive audio interview with Lens Culture.

Russian springtime playgrounds

As winter's snows thaw, Trevor Traynor captures the faded colors of Moscow's playgrounds.

Drifting Away: remembering the disappeared from Colombia

Colombian artist Erika Diettes has created a light-filled photo-based memorial installation to honor and remember the thousands of her countrymen who are missing or dead.

The shapes of formal gardens

Photographer Beth Dow aims for pictures that have "a meditative quality to reflect the spiritual urges that inspired the earliest gardens some six thousand years ago." Her platinum prints make them feel even more wonderfully unreal and magical.

Bejewelled Carcasses

Patricia Pastore zooms in on the beauty of dead bugs, with bright lights and highly selective focus. The results shimmer with minimalist elegance.

Night Park

Dogs and people cavort like dancers in the dark when photographer Susan Bein experiments with hand-held late-night long exposures.

Flowers

Colorblind photographer Tony Mendoza decided that after 30 years of black-and-white it was time to tackle color photography. These flowers look like none you have probably seen in your garden.

American Suburb

Douglas Rickhard chronicles the twilight-zone empty feeling of 60s and 70s era suburban housing developments in the United States.

Written in the Past

Joachim Froese presents us with zen-like meditations and dream-like imagery in his series of triptychs.

1,000 Buddhas —
an ongoing project, please contribute your photos

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