Issue no. 180
October 2026
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WINSLOW MARTIN: MY ARMENIA
A former history teacher turned photographer, Martin’s decades-long engagement with the people, culture and history of Armenia—documented in stunning photographs over dozens of visits—trace with rare sensitivity and power how Armenians have dealt with conflict and displacement in real time. His sincere engagement with the culture has affored him a rare and welcoming acceptance.
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DIMPY BHALOTIA: SMALL LENS, BIG WORLD
Is Dimpy Bhalotia a magician? One could be forgiven for entertaining the possibility, so adept is she at capturing surreal moments that seem to upend the laws of physics: bodies suspended in mid-air, Hitchcockian birds swooping down toward unsuspecting humans, gravity-defying juxtapositions. These spatially disorienting images reflect how Bhalotia personally experiences contemporary life, in all of its disorder and harmony, humor and tension.
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LINDA SCHAEFER: SEEING THE SACRED
Throughout a long, eclectic, prolific and rewarding life and career, Schaefer has photographed with purpose, clarity and empathy people of different worlds and cultures. From doing commercial photography, to documenting crime scenes for the NYPD, to covering historic Civil Rights events, to meeting, working with and photographing Mother Theresa’s Missionaries of Charity network, her images invariably consistently engage with spiritual challenge and renewal.
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MICHAEL DRESSEL: AN OUTSIDER'S AMERICA
In cities across the world—Berlin, Paris, Morocco, Buenos Aires and, most strikingly perhaps, Los Angeles—Michael Dressel conjures life on the street as noisy, theatrical, often on the verge of chaos, yet deeply human and affecting. Born in East Berlin during its Iron Curtain era, his camera gravitates to those on the margins: hustlers, freaks, homeless people, exhibitionists, aging beauty queens, all simultaneously occupying the same space while somehow remaining blissfully unaware of one another. Multiple meanings abound, as his crowded yet faultlessly composed images are rife with sociocultural signs and symbols, to such an extent that they seem to invite and challenge the viewer to play a game of of free association interpretation. A little Freud, anyone?
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SPOTLIGHT: IVANA VOSTRAKOVA—PORTFOLIO CONTEST WINNER
“I felt the need to change reality in my own way, not just capture it.”
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MORE SPOTLIGHTS
YVES HARNOIS
SCOTT MARMER
DANIEL HU
PAOLO AMELI
R. ANDREW HOFF
SCOTT CLARKE
DOUG PHILLIPS
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SINGLE IMAGE SPOTLIGHTS
BOB NEIMAN
GREGORY TALLEY
JON MEYER
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DEPARTMENTS
OPENING SHOT
BACKSTORY
IN TRIBUTE: JERRY McMILLAN
ALL THE KING’S WOMEN
COPYRIGHT
EXPOSURE SECTION