Issue no. 174
October 2025
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CITY OF ANGELS: CHARRED MEMORIES
The City of Los Angeles is still recovering from the wildfires that devastated large swathes of the metropolitan area from January 7 to 31, with most of the damage from the Eaton Fire in Altadena and the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, considered the second and third-most destructive fires in California’s history. Award-winning travel/documentary photographer and Black & White contributor Mark Edward Harris was on the front lines and in harm’s way to capture the fury of the fires and, in the unforgettable images presented here, the ongoing recovery and rebuilding efforts.
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RICHARD MURAI: BETWEEN WORLDS
Richard Murai’s photographs document religious fervor and reveal visual artifacts from a past golden age, where people from other cultures seek to reconcile ancient traditions with conflicting modern values. His work focuses on the manifestation of symbols revealed in architecture, iconography, ritual and people in sacred sites in Bhutan, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.
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ERIC NELSON: MODERN GOTHIC
Eric Nelson wants to expand the 19th century time bubble. “Connections and disruptions in time” form the crux of his photography. The ancient and the modern commingle like liquid collodion across his japanned tin plates. Nelson utilizes 19th century tools to tell an old story, of the eternal challenges of farming life, using 21st century exemplars and settings.
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RIC SAVID: FAMILY MATTERS
Over four decades, Ric Savid has evoked the humanity in faces he has photographed in Europe, Mexico and the Philippines. His ongoing project Family is a tribute to his own. The proximity of his daughter and four grandchildren, who all live near his home in Clearwater, makes being ready at a moment’s notice fairly easy. For Savid, taking photographs is less about the moment and more about leaving something for the future.
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JIM KAZANJIAN: THE SUBLIME IN HIGHER FREQUENCY
Kazanjian constructs images in Photoshop by combining pieces of numerous black-and-white photographs of mostly historical relics. One could say that his work marks among the last of the postmodern, post-digital, pre-AI, Surrealist photographers—a decidedly narrow window in the mansion of Western Art History—a window, sadly, looking out on a shrinking landscape of human imagination.
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SPOTLIGHT: JORDAN DOUGLAS—PORTFOLIO CONTEST WINNER
“These antique photographs are decontextualized to speak to our present-day humanity.”
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SINGLE IMAGE SPOTLIGHTS:
SARA YERKES
JESSICA MARGO
LEONARD SEEVE
WILLIAM BULLARD -
DEPARTMENTS
ALL THE KING’S MEN: JIM ALINDER
BOOK REVIEWS: BARBARA RAMOS / STANLEY KUBRICK’S THE SHINING
COPYRIGHT: HELMUT NEWTON
IN MEMORIAM: SEBASTIAO SALGADO -
MORE SPOTLIGHTS
E.S. YANG
PATRICK GERRITY
JERRYKAY
JOSEPH PIZZUTO
DEAN FORBES