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Celebrity Minimalism

In most commercial celebrity shoots, you have a staff, a budget and a subject with ample time blocked out to explore and get creative. Celebrity portraitist Randall Slavin is no stranger to this type...

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Moniza Lozano: Crossing Over

Monica Lozano’s enigmatic and haunting photographs ride the line between traditional art photography and reportage. But for this native of El Paso, Texas, who grew up just across the border in Juarez...

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The Art of the Splash

Somewhere between a slick special-effects lab and Willy Wonka’s rec room lies Peter Schafrick’s photo studio. “Just recently a client wanted us to capture an exploding scoop of ice cream,” the...

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Monica Lozano: Crossing Over

Monica Lozano’s enigmatic and haunting photographs ride the line between traditional art photography and reportage. But for this native of El Paso, Texas, who grew up just across the border in Juarez...

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Cowboy Funky

While pursuing a political science degree at the University of Texas at Austin, Jay B. Sauceda took a class that changed his life. Taught by Dennis Darling, Sauceda says, “the class was geared towards...

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Scenes of Ice and Fire

Though she speaks quite elegantly, Silja Magg does not enjoy talking about herself. In fact, one of the first things sheread more

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Portraits Document The Effects of Sexual Violence In The Congo

When Sarah Fretwell dove into the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010, her only plan was to cover a story, not to change the world. “I didn’t understand when people said they had a...

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Devil For the Detail

Texas native Randal Ford is no stranger to photographic challenges. Choreographing rattlesnakes, rounding up cowboys, wrangling a movie icon—it’s all in a day’s work for the 31-year-old commercial...

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One to Watch: James Chororos Photographs the Everyday

In a scorching summer day on the Upper West Side, photographer James Chororos has no trouble keeping his cool. Just shy of his 30th birthday, he exudes the quiet confidence of someone used to taking...

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Travis Rathbone, The Alchemist

Still-life photographer Travis Rathbone has established a signature style by redefining the limits of objects. His visual experiments push commonplace items into new realms: submerged in foreign...

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Sam Kaplan's Mesmerizing Patterns

It’s a frosty winter day, but New York City–based lensman Sam Kaplan has no trouble keeping warm. His days are a flurry of activity, from shooting back-to-back assignments to finalizing an expansion of...

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