By My Van In many cultures, it’s considered luckier to give birth to a boy rather than a girl. Before my four older sisters were born, my mother was already under pressure to bring a boy into her family. My sister once told me about the hours before I was born:...
Humans are driving climate change — a fact many ignore. So I have captured our changing landscape in photos that show the consequences. Melting map of climate change patterns (all photos by Emma Juvan) This story shared first prize in the photography category in...
By Clio Morrison One minute in the developer, 30 seconds in the stop bath and two minutes in the fixer. I know the time increments of the darkroom like I know the alphabet. It begins with setting my aperture, focusing the lens and pressing the shutter at just the...
(All photos by Mindy Tan) By Mindy Tan My fascination with Beijing’s hutongs began during the 2008 Olympics. I was reporting on the Games for a newspaper. A gleaming media bus took the visiting media from venue to venue, with unnaturally blue skies above us and eager...
— A photo essay by Alexandra Hawley — I decided to address “beauty” and the hurt that is placed upon young women by high expectations because I saw it happening in my own community and in myself. I hear comments and whispers about how others...
