Aaron Hewitt
Global Brand Design: Andy Alvarez
Producer: Katie Entler
Client: adidas
DeAndre Hopkins, wide receiver for the Houston Texans football team, fixes his hair during a portrait session for adidas.
Art Streiber
Director, Project Management/Brand Creative: Donna Tine
Client: Comedy Central
Rep: Stockland Martel
Actor Rob Lowe sits in a bedroom-style “photo booth” at the entrance to the pink carpet before his Comedy Central Roast in 2016.
Joan Allen
Art Director: Paolo Pepe
Client: Penguin Random House
A portrait of English author Anne Perry for her upcoming novel.
Bára Prášilová
Client: The National Theatre
A selection of the posters for The National Theatre in Prague, conceptualized with Prášilová’s signature style of gentle irony, fun and black humor.
David Bornfriend
Agency (poster only): InSync PLUS
Creative Directors (poster only): Jeff Wadley and Kishan Muthucumaru
Art Director (poster only): Steve Reeves
Client: A24
From a series of promotional stills and the poster for the movie Moonlight.
Chris Gordaneer
Ad Agency: The Discovery Agency
Art Director: Anand Gahlot
Client: Discovery Communications
Jeremy Wade, host of River Monsters, in a promotional image for the Animal Planet show.
Todd Antony
Creative Director: Nick Meikle
Art Director: Martin Duhovic
Clients: BBC Worldwide and Hartswood Films
This key image for the season four campaign of BBC’s Sherlock, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Sherlock Holmes and Watson, took visual inspiration from the work of photographer Gregory Crewdson.
Matthew Sprout
Client: La Ligne
Styling/Beauty: Valerie Boster, Molly Howard, Meredith Melling, Rie Omoto and Cecilia Romero
Rep: Exposure NY
Model Maye Musk is featured in this campaign for the direct-to-consumer clothing brand La Ligne.
Bela Borsodi
Publication: Refinery29
Senior Photo Editor: Florencia Rolandelli
Styling/Beauty: Anastasia Durasova, Kristian Kanika and Colleen Runné
Client: Lane Bryant
For Lane Bryant’s #ThisBody campaign, Refinery29 created a custom feature to ignite a conversation around real depictions of women’s bodies, using paint to guide the eye to parts of the body that are often ignored or considered flawed.
Benedict Evans
Ad Agency: Virture Worldwide
Creative Director: Vasili Gavre
Design Director: Adam Mignanelli
Art Director: Paul Raffaele
Client: Budweiser
A portrait of a subway dancer for the Budweiser “Respect the Hustle” billboard campaign that appeared in Brooklyn, New York.
Raphaël
Art Director: Isabelle Côté
Client: Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra
A portrait of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the new director for the Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra.
Craig Cutler
Ad Agency: JWalk
Creative Director: Geoffrey Dunne
Director of Brand Management: Amy Hintz
Client: Viva XXXII Tequila
An image for the launch of Viva XXXII tequila.
Todd Antony
Ad Agency: Alpha Century
Creative Director Giles Smith
Art Director: Louis Tristram
Client: Nestlé
A summer campaign for UK brand Fab Ice Lollies, “A Sprinkle of Summer Fun.”
Andy Anderson
A shoot for YETI coolers, photographed at the Miles City Bucking Horse Sale in Miles City, Montana.
Jensen Granger
Producer: Jamie Herrmann
Client: GoPro
High above Palm Springs, California, for a campaign for the GoPro Karma drone.
Adrian Mesko
Publication: Refinery29
Senior Art Director: Ida Hariri
Set Design: Danielle Selig
Styling/Beauty: Sue Choi, Holly Gowers, Yukie Miyakawa and Takuya Sugawara
Client: H&M
Rep: De facto
Albino rights activist Diandra Forrest, from a custom feature by Refinery29 and H&M that celebrates the new age of femininity and what it means to be a woman today.
Wilson Hennessy
Ad Agency: Innocean Worldwide
Creative Directors: Chris Kirk and Andy Wyton
Client: Hyundai
Reps: Held & Associates and Horton-Stephens
A print of a metal feather to represent the weight and strength of Hyundai cars.
Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari
Publication: The New York Times Magazine
Director of Photography: Kathy Ryan
Design Director: Gail Bichler
Associate Photo Editor: Christine Walsh
A crew works on a reproduction of Michelangelo’s David in Carrara, Italy.
Ami Vitale
Publication: National Geographic
Director of Photography: Sarah Leen
Senior Photo Editor: Sadie Quarrier
Pandas, once dangerously close to extinction, are being sent back to the wild. Following China’s massive captive-breeding program, this series shows the next step in the attempt to save the country’s “most famous ambassador.”
Dan Winters
Publication: New York
Director of Photography: Jody Quon
Photographs of President Barack Obama from an issue devoted to the eight years of his presidency.
Adam Voorhes
Publication: WIRED
An outtake of Scotch Tape for WIRED’s “What’s Inside” page.
Miller Mobley
Publication: The Hollywood Reporter
Director of Photography: Jennifer Laski
Deputy Director of Photography: Carrie Smith
Photo Editor: Michelle Stark
A portrait of actor and director Mel Gibson for the magazine’s annual Director Roundtable feature.
Jack Davison
Publication: The New York Times Magazine
Director of Photography: Kathy Ryan
Design Director: Gail Bichler
Photo Editor: Christine Walsh
“L.A. Noir” features the year’s best actors—including Ruth Negga, Emma Stone, Taraji P. Henson and Denzel Washington—channeling classic film-noir looks and scenarios.
Jamie Chung
Publication: Esquire
Creative Director: Anton Ioukhnovets
Photo Editor: Stacey Pittman
Stylist: Alex Brannian
A still-life image from a story about Tom Manning, who, in 2016, became the first American man to receive a penile transplant.
Barbara Kruger and Mark Peterson
Publication: New York
Director of Photography: Jody Quon
Photo Editor: Marvin Orellana
Conceptual artist and collagist Barbara Kruger created this piece with a Mark Peterson photograph of Donald Trump from the 2016 campaign trail.
Philip Montgomery
Publication: Bloomberg Markets
Director of Photography: Clinton Cargill
Creative Director: Rob Vargas
Art Director: Josef Reyes
Photo Editor: Donna Cohen
A portrait of GTS traders at the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan.
Brian Finke
Publication: GoodHousekeeping.com
Producer: Sarah Kalagvano
Coverage from the 2016 Ms. Senior America Pageant, held in Atlantic City in October 2016. All contestants were women between the ages of 60 and 90.
Andrea Frazzetta
Publication: The New York Times Magazine
Director of Photography: Kathy Ryan
Design Director: Gail Bichler
Associate Photo Editor: Stacey Baker
A body of work from Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, part of “The Voyages Issue: Visual Journeys from Six Photographers.”
Bryan Derballa
Publication: Harper’s Bazaar Japan
Features Director: Keiko Niiyama
Contributing Editor: Makiko Monji
A portrait of artist and curator Petra Collins in Brooklyn, New York.
Norman Jean Roy
Publication: New York
Director of Photography: Jody Quon
Senior Photo Editor: Roxanne Behr
Actor Winona Ryder, star of Netflix’s Stranger Things, is profiled in the 2016 Fall Fashion Issue.
Benjamin Lowy
Publication: New York
Director of Photography: Jody Quon
Photo Editor: Sofia de Guzman
Photo Agency: Reportage by Getty Images
A portrait of a young girl holding a Hillary Clinton action figure at an Ohio rally in October 2016.
Christopher Anderson
Publication: The New York Times Magazine
Director of Photography: Kathy Ryan
Design Director: Gail Bichler
Associate Photo Editor: Amy Kellner
A portrait of artist Chuck Close for the feature “The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close,” which reports on the changes the legendary artist has made to his portraiture style and his personal life.
Elinor Carucci
Publication: TIME
Director of Photography: Kira Pollack
Senior Producer: Tara Johnson
A series about Evan’s journey of becoming a father as a transgender man for the feature “My Brother’s Pregnancy and the Making of a New American Family.”
Joe Pugliese
Publication: People
Director of Photography: Catriona Ni Aolain
Creative Director: Andrea Dunham
A portrait of Hillary Clinton, from a shoot with her and running mate Tim Kaine for the feature “She’s the Boss.”
Gillian Laub
Publication: Refinery29
Director of Photography: Toby Kaufmann
Photo Editor: Lilac Perez
Body-positive activist Caxmee Brutus on the Coney Island boardwalk in Brooklyn. Caxmee, whose leg was amputated during cancer treatment, was photographed for “Take Back the Beach,” featuring differently abled women at the beach.
Lynsey Addario
Publication: TIME
Director of Photography: Kira Pollack
International Photo Editor: Alice Gabriner
More than 1,000 Syrian refugees gave birth in Greece in 2016; for this feature, TIME followed four of them. They are mothers to children of no nation, who were conceived in war and gestated in flight.
Peter Bohler
Publication: Travel + Leisure
Director of Photography: Scott Hall
Photo Editor: Alex Arnold
The Naxi Impression Show in Lijiang, China, celebrates the culture of the Naxi, Yi and Bai people. Photographed as part of a travel story on Yunnan Province, a remote, wild and culturally diverse part of China.
William Widmer
Publication: Terra Mater
Director of Photography: Isabella Russ
Mark O’Brien, a third-generation shrimp fisherman based in Dulac, Louisiana, photographed for a feature story on the dangers of the inshore shrimping industry in the Gulf of Mexico.
Pari Dukovic
Publication: Condé Nast Traveler
Director of Photography: Jennifer Miller
Creative Director: Yolanda Edwards
This destination cover story on Venice, Italy, was shot during a rainy week in August, “revealing a city both timeless and oddly seasonless.”
Nadav Kander
Publication: TIME
Director of Photography: Kira Pollack
Deputy Director of Photography: Paul Moakley
President-elect Donald Trump photographed at his penthouse on the 66th floor of Trump Tower in New York City on November 28, 2016.
Rebecca Smeyne
Publication: The New York Times
Director of Photography: Michele McNally
Photo Editor: Elizabeth Bristow
Kanye West in a quiet moment, surrounded by Kim Kardashian-West, Steven Klein, Kris Jenner and Olivier Rousteing at Balmain’s Met Gala after party at the Gilded Lily in New York City in May 2016.
Thomas Prior
Publication: Bloomberg Businessweek
Director of Photography: Clinton Cargill
For this story, Prior had exclusive access to Triple Crown winner American Pharoah at his new home on the stud farm.
Jonathan Bachman
Photo Agency: Reuters
Publications: BBC.co.uk, Newsweek, The New York Times, TIME.com, TheAtlantic.com, WashingtonPost.com and others
Activist Ieshia Evans stands her ground while offering her hands for arrest as she is charged by riot police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Protests against police brutality followed the shooting of Alton Sterling, a black man and father of five, who was held down by two white police officers and shot at close range.
Sebastiano Tomada
Photo Agency: Reportage by Getty Images
Children roam the streets in Qayyarah, Iraq, near the fire and smoke billowing from oil wells set ablaze by Islamic State militants.
Ryan Garza
Publication: Detroit Free Press
Director of Photography: Kathy Kieliszewski
“Don’t Forget About Flint” is an often-heard sentiment in Flint, Michigan. Three years after the city’s crisis over lead-poisoned water, many residents still use cases of bottled water to cook with, bathe in and drink. Garza says his series is meant “to remind the rest of the world that their experiences, their lives, matter.”
Taro Karibe
Photo Agency: Getty Images
Publications:: NYTimes.com and WashingtonPost.com
A series about 61-year-old Tokyo resident Senji Nakajima, who lives with Saori, his life-sized love doll. Karibe notes that the trend for intimate relationships with silicone dolls has been rising across Japan.
Paula Bronstein
Publication: TIME LightBox
Support: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
After 15 years of U.S. engagement and billions of dollars spent by the international community, Afghanistan has seen little improvement in terms of overall stability. Civilians are at greater risk today than at any time since Taliban rule, and as security deteriorates in large swaths of the country, humanitarian response is further complicated.
Ketevan Kardava
Photo Agency: ZUMA Press
Director of Photography: Scott McKiernan
Creative Team: Mark Avery, James K. Colton, Julie Rogers, Ruaridh Stewart and Shalan Stewart
Publications: CNN.com, NYTimes.com, TIME.com and others
Two women, bloody and covered in debris, immediately after the explosions at the Brussels airport in March 2016.
Phil Hatcher-Moore
A series that examines the effects of the nuclear arms race on today’s residents of the Kazakh Steppe, where Cold War-era nuclear tests were conducted in secret. Though the area was considered largely unpopulated, villagers recall flashes of light and shaking earth. Children were later born with crippling deformities.
Daniel Månsson
Publication: The Economist 1843
Photo Editor: Melanie Grant
Cowboys from the Meling family live and work at the 100-year-old ranch their ancestors founded in the inland of Baja California, Mexico.
Niels Ackermann
Photo Agency: Lundi13
Publications: CNN.com, NationalGeographic.com, WIRED.com and others
What happened to the Lenin statue that fell in the very center of Kiev in the early days of the 2014 Maidan Revolution? In “Looking for Lenin,” Ackermann and journalist Sébastien Gobert search for the first of many statues brought down during the viral movement Leninopad, discovering dozens of other fallen idols and their pieces while on their quest.
Timo Lieber
Publications: TheGuardian.com and WashingtonPost.com
Lieber worked alongside several scientists while photographing “THAW,” which documents the rapidly growing number of blue lakes and rivers forming on the Greenland ice sheet—one of the most inaccessible areas on earth.
Marcus Yam
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Director of Photography: Calvin Hom
Senior Photo Editor: Robert St. John
“A State Ablaze” documents California’s most recent fire season, in which the state’s drought-parched landscape withered under record temperatures as nearly 7,000 wildfires burned within just under half-a-million acres of land.
Jonathan Kingston
Photo Agency: National Geographic Creative
Publication: National Geographic Proof
Director of Editing: Stacy Gold
Photography Producer, Digital: Jeanne Modderman
Associate Photo Editor: Mallory Benedict
Young Crow Indians team up with National Geographic photographers to explore the roots of their community.
T.J. Kirkpatrick
Photo Agency: Redux Pictures
Publication: The Wall Street Journal
Director of Photography: Lucy Gilmour
Deputy Director of Photography: Elissa Curtis
Visual News Editor: Tracy Armstead
Jerry Emmett, a 102-year-old honorary delegate from Prescott, Arizona, shows off her Hillary pin as she arrives for the start of the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Emmett was born before women gained the right to vote and was excited to witness the Democratic party nominate a woman for president.
Amber Bracken
Publications: Buzzfeed News, TheGlobeandMail.com and others
A series about the members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their allies, who camped for nearly a year in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline crossing their territory and their water supply. Though on its face the issue is the pipeline, the conflict is steeped in generations of violent history with the American government.
Gabriele Micalizzi
Publications: Corriere.it and Vogue.it
Micalizzi’s series is the result of five months spent on the front lines in Sirte, Libya, where the U.S.-backed forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) fight to recapture the city from the Islamic State. Micalizzi calls the series “Dogma” after the “arrogant” name IS gives to its car bombs. He explains: “Every belief system is based on infallibility, and in the complete failure of the secular Arab Spring, what could be more fitting than a Toyota filled with TNT to erase any doubt?”
Mathieu Willcocks
A series about the central Mediterranean migration route, between Libya and Italy’s coasts, which saw more than 173,000 people arriving on Italian soil in 2016, with the dead or missing reaching 4,500. War, persecution, political instability and poverty in Africa continue to push people to undertake this dangerous journey.
Paolo Marchetti
Photo Agency: Reportage by Getty Images
Marchetti exposes the price of vanity in “The Sacrifice,” bringing awareness to the ruthless high-volume business of animal skins within the luxury fashion industry. This chapter features a mink-breeding farm in Poland. He has also photographed the breeding of crocodiles in Colombia and ostriches in Thailand.
Benoit Bou
Photo Agencies: Belga, ZUMA Press
Director of Photography: Scott McKiernan
Creative Team: Mark Avery, James K. Colton, Julie Rogers, Ruaridh Stewart and Shalan Stewart
Female giant panda Hao Hao shows off her newborn baby at the Pairi Daiza animal park in Brugelette, Belgium, three months after Chinese experts artificially inseminated the panda.
Goh Iromoto
Client: Ontario Travel
On a cool morning on Cranberry Lake in Ontario, Iromoto photographed this canoe paddling through the rising mist as part of his film project The Canoe.
Ken Hermann
Art Director: Gemma Fletcher
Bökh is a lesser-known form of wrestling practiced by a small group of men in Inner Mongolia. “We were particularly interested in how it governed status for young men within the community as well as defining manliness,” Hermann says.
Julien Grimard
A series that captures freestyle mountain biker Matt Macduff attempting the Loop Of Doom, his subsequent crash and injuries.
Stefan Wermuth
Photo Agency: Reuters
A synchronized swimmer from Russia competes at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre in Brazil during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Elias Joidos
A young man appears to fly as he dives into the Aegean Sea at Mylopotamos Beach in Pelion, Greece.
Jimmy Chin
For this shoot, Chin accompanied Felipe Camargo while he climbed the Getu Arch in China.
Dan Root
Creative Team: Jason Berry, Jeremy Darlow, Christian Laursen and Drew Gilges
Client: adidas Football US
Rep: Deborah Ayerst Artists’ Agent
A Florida seven-on-seven football tournament shot for adidas’ social media channels. “Once a high school off-season exercise,” Root says, “it has now blossomed into full-scale local and national competitions.”
David Burnett
Photo Agency: IOC Contact Press Images
From Burnett’s coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Joel Marklund
Photo Agency: Bildbyrån
Astier Nicolas of France rides his horse, Piaf de B’Neville, in the equestrian individual cross-country competition during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Chris Burkard
Rep: Massif Management
“It’s always been my desire to surf in some of the most remote stretches of the world,” Burkard says. Based in Pismo Beach, California, he traveled to the remote Lofoten Islands off the coast of Norway for this shoot.
Joe Pugliese
Publication: ESPN The Magazine
Director of Photography: Karen Frank
Senior Deputy Photo Editor: Nancy Weisman
Pugliese shot this portrait of motocross champion Ryan Dungey for ESPN The Magazine’s The Body Issue.
Taehoon Kim
Dylan Michael Sage holds onto Sam Cross during a rugby match between South Africa and Wales at the HSBC Canada Sevens in Vancouver on March 13, 2016.
Mustafah Abdulaziz
Support: Google, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, United Nations, VSCO, Water Aid and WWF
“Water” is a 15-year project, slated to finish in 2026, that examines our complex relationship with water. Abdulaziz points to the hundreds of millions who lack access to safe drinking water, the irreparable impact of industry on bodies of water and the rising sea levels that threaten to cause global upheaval. He says: “As seen from a global standpoint, water is present in all aspects of human development, and the pressure we as human beings place on the environment is forcing water toward a crisis.”
Kiliii Yuyan
Yuyan worked alongside an Iñupiat whaling crew in Alaska for two years to photograph this series. Though raised in America, Yuyan is a Russian-born descendant of an indigenous people in Siberia. He seeks to reclaim his heritage, “stripped away in a generation by communism, war and stigma.” These images, he says, are an exploration of ilitqusiat—that which makes strangers into family.
Jarren Vink
From a collection of graphic black-and-white images featuring various dental hygiene tools.
Christelle Boulé
“The Drops” is a visual representation of the act of smelling perfume, which Boulé calls an “evocative” and “intimate” experience. The images are made by dropping perfume onto color photo paper, then exposing the dried paper to light and plunging it into developer solution—the image of fragrance revealed.
Antonio Gibotta
Photo Agency: Agency Controluce
A series about an annual festival in Alicante, Spain, where two groups simulate a coup and counter rebellion. The teams fight their battle with flour, water, eggs and colored smoke bombs.
Patty Maher
A staged series about grief as well as an act of personal alchemy, referencing the loss of Maher’s mother to cancer. “The essence of this experience has been transmuted into an anonymous photographic essay,” she explains. “It takes as its primary themes the discretion, inwardness, isolation and silence of a journey that is both personal and universal.”
Chris Burkard
Rep: Massif Management
Burkard’s ode to Icelandic rivers, the result of a ten-year infatuation. Two years ago, he found a focus for the work after discovering his subjects could be marred by a proposed hydroelectric dam project. He hopes his photographs will encourage the preservation of these “fragile” rivers.
Glenna Gordon
Support: Festival Photo Reporter
Gordon attended dozens of Indonesian funerals to understand alternative interpretations of death and dying. In Indonesia, death is not viewed as the end of life but as the beginning of the afterlife.
Carey Kirkella
Behind-the-scenes portraits of models—each a breast cancer survivor—who walked in Exposed, a New York Fashion Week show by AnaOno Intimates and Cancerland.
Mahesh Shantaram
Shantaram’s series began in light of the growing number of attacks on black African students living and studying in India. Shantaram spent several months traveling across the country to meet African expats and “extend a hand of friendship.” He shoots the series at night to suggest a sense of security in a vulnerable time.
Stephanie Gengotti
Gengotti’s project follows the lives of the European extended family that makes up The Brunette Bros., “the second smallest circus in the world.” Gengotti says of the circus: “Perhaps there is nothing more anachronistic. A legacy of a past millennium, kept alive in microcosms on the fringe of reality in many of the forgotten European States.”
Ángel Armero
“Siesta!” reflects the tradition of the day nap in South East Asia, where, as Armero explains, it’s not frowned upon to take a break from work to rest.
Larry Louie
From a series on the workings of one of the oldest jute mills in Kolkata, one of many established by the English in the 1880s. The jute industry, Louie explains, was brought to the area as an economic stimulus measure to prevent further revolt against the British Empire.
Piotr Naskrecki
For the last few years Naskrecki has been documenting the lesser-known animals of Africa, which receive little attention due to their small size or elusive lifestyle. Images in this series were taken in Mozambique, “one of the least explored countries on the continent, biologically and photographically.”
Mark McCarty
“Cara Mia” is an ongoing series of iPhone photos of McCarty’s wife. He says: “I love the innocence of the phone, and the way it renders its subjects in an impressionistic way.”
Tyler Gray
“Blue Collar” is an ongoing series that depicts the harsh beauty and big potential of the North American towns that never quite recovered from the 2009 financial crisis that decimated the manufacturing industry.
Michele Palazzo
New York City’s iconic Flatiron Building emerges from a blizzard like the bow of a giant ship plowing through the wind and the snow. Taken during Winter Storm Jonas in 2016.
Thomas Prior
“Bomba” captures the “testosterone-fueled” commemoration of a 400-year-old battle in the Mexican town San Juan de la Vega. Every February, hundreds of local men strap homemade explosives to sledgehammers and slam them on steel railings, creating what Prior calls “the chaotic beauty of ritualistic bravado.”
Sasha Maslov
The “Veterans Project” is a series of portraits photographed with the goal to assemble a mosaic of people who engaged in World War II, which Maslov notes is incomparable in its scale of human tragedy and degree of impact on civilization.
Reuben Wu
In “Lux Noctis” Wu is influenced by traditional landscape photography, planetary exploration, 19th-century sublime Romantic painting and science fiction. He reimagines his scenes as “undiscovered landscapes that renew our perceptions of our world.”
Ragnar Th. Sigurðsson
Photo Agency: Getty Images
Editor: William Bon
An aerial view of a bonfire in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Molly Cranna, Alexandra Gavillet and Lula Hyers
Publication: Refinery29
Director of Photography: Toby Kaufmann
Executive Creative Director: Piera Gelardi
Photo Editor: Lilac Perez
Senior Photo Research Editor: Lorenna Gomez-Sanchez
Photo Agency: Getty Images
The 67% Project is a body-positive initiative by Refinery29, in partnership with Getty Images, to reposition how women are photographically represented in media and stock imagery.
Brandon Harman
Photo Agency: Cavan Images
A shot from Harman’s explorations of Big Sur, California.
Gregory Reid
Photo Agency: Gallery Stock
Creative Director: Jen Fox Freeman
Floral Designer: Nicolette Owen
Graphic red florals on a red background.
Adam Weiss
Photo Agency: Cavan Images
From a series of portraits that rely on natural light.
Kelvin Murray
Photo Agency: Getty Images
Art Director: Gem Fletcher
A conceptual image showing how virtual reality can open new horizons.
April Kraus
Photo Agency: Cavan Images
A ballerina prepares for her performance in The Nutcracker Suite.
Tara Moore
Photo Agency: Getty Images
From a series of vibrant multimedia collage portraits.
Matthew Roharik
Photo Agency: Getty Images
Prop Stylist: Jessica Stewart
A conceptual still life, “Sultry Succulents.”
Tony Anderson
Photo Agency: Getty Images
Art Director: Beth Wachtel-Lipke
A cowgirl and her dog pose on the back of a pickup truck.
Marcus Palmqvist
Photo Agency: Getty Images
Art Director: Gem Fletcher
“Impossible Balance” tricks the eye with seemingly impossible moves by Swedish dancers caught in camera.
Robyn Breen Shinn
Photo Agency: The Good Brigade/Offset
A portrait of a young girl by the water.
Andrew Hetherington
Title: “Keep America Safe—Ban Toddlers”
URL: vimeo.com/200859770
Agency: McCann New York
Creative Team: Jeremy Adirim, Sean Bryan, Sean Flanigan, Aaron Kovan, Kelly Kim, Sarah Menacho, Thomas Murphy, Trinh Pham, Kelly Ramsey, Tim Soter, Mel Senecal, Daniela Vojta, Susan Young
Production: Goldteeth & Co.
Post-Production: Whitehouse Post
VFX and Graphics: Method Studios
Client: Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
This PSA states: “Last year toddlers shot and killed more Americans than terrorists. If we really want to keep America safe, let’s pass common sense gun laws. Or start thinking of other options—like getting rid of toddlers.”
Zackary Canepari
Title: “Claressa”
URL: vimeo.com179390164
Producers: Drea Cooper, Christopher Gary, Christopher Isenberg and Sue Jaye Johnson
Cinematography: Jessica Dimmock, Sue Jaye Johnson, Sophia Rose and Mo Scarpelli
Editor: Carter Gunn
After Claressa Shields became the first woman to win the gold medal in Olympic boxing, she returned home to Flint, Michigan, with no sponsorships or endorsements. This short film, a follow-up to the feature documentary T-Rex, follows Claressa three years after the Olympics when she faces a crossroads in her career.
Almudena Toral and Ricardo Weibezahn
Title: “Crimes on Cruise Ships: Impunity on the High Seas”
URL: vimeo.com166880721
Publication: Univision Noticas
Reporter: Patricia Clarembaux
Sexual assaults are the most common crimes aboard cruise ships. Alyssa is one of hundreds of victims raped and sexually assaulted while on board. They desperately seek justice, but in many cases it never arrives. For this video, visual journalist Almudena Toral worked with motion graphic designer Ricardo Weibezahn to keep their subjects anonymous.
Emily Kassie
Title: “The 21st Century Goldrush”
URL: highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/the-21st-century-gold-rush-refugees
Publication: Huffington Post Highline
Reporting: Emily Kassie and Malia Politzer<
Editors: Rachel Morris and Greg Veis
Design/Development: Gladeye
Music: Benjamin Kutner
The biggest refugee crisis in recorded history has engulfed continents, swung elections and fueled the rise of nativism. It has also made a lot of people very, very rich. These are the stories of the people who have figured out how to profit from global instability and human suffering.
Christian Bobst and Florian Mebes
Title: “The Prostitutes and the Priest”
URL: vimeo.com198707337
Music: Federico Bettini (Jingle Jungle Sound Studios)
This film tells the story of women and girls in Namibia, who sell their bodies in order to survive, and the priest, Father Hermann Klein-Hipass, who has made it his personal mission to help them.
Amy Pereira
Title: “Continental Drift: The Global Migrant Crisis”
URL: msnbc.com/specials/migrant-crisis
Producer: Shannon Simon
An ambitious, year-long series made in partnership with MSNBC.com and Magnum Photos that examines the worst migrant crisis in human history. Photographed by ten renowned photographers, each story reveals the regional displacement, exile, conflict, persecution and struggle of this global crisis.
Jenna Close and Jon Held
Title: “Buck the Cubicle: Ice Music”
URL: vimeo.com160625697
Production: P2
A film about Tim Linhart, founder of Ice Music, based in Luleå, Sweden. Ice Music presents a winter concert series in a variety of music styles, all played on instruments made of ice and performed in a specially designed igloo. “Buck the Cubicle” is a series featuring people who get out, get dirty and find inspiration in all manner of offbeat occupations.
Mark Zibert
Title: “VS Anthem”
URL: vimeo.com187209770
Ad Agency: Cossette
Production: Skin & Bones Film Co.
Director of Photography: Jackson Parrell
Editor: Marka Rankovic
Client: SickKids
The “VS Anthem” uses epic metaphors to depict the battles that go on every day at The Hospital for Sick Children. All of the children in the video are currently being treated at SickKids or have been patients at the hospital.
Benjamin Chesterton
Title: “Payback”
URL: vimeo.com198196572
Production: duckrabbit
Executive Producer: Peter Rudge
Videographers: Benjamin Chesterton and Chris Keenan
Assistant Producers: Lynda Laird and Oliver Sharpe
Client: Extreme Dialogue
A film about Adam Deen, who joined the Islamist extremist organization al-Muhajiroun while at university in London and rose to become one of its senior members. “Payback” was produced in the UK as a part of a project to get young people thinking about extremism.
Dean Alexander
Title: “The Eye Ball’
URL: vimeo.com191782584
Ad Agency: Design Army
Creative Directors: Jake Lefebure and Pum Lefebure
Senior Designer: Lillian Ling
Editor: David Grossbach
Copywriter: Mark Welsh
Client: Georgetown Optician
“The Eye Ball,” a sequel to “Our Family Know Glasses,” continues the true-ish story of the Voorthuis family, the optically obsessed owners of Georgetown Optician— a true-life optical retailer.
Lindsay Godin
School: University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
From Godin’s series “History is Written by The Winner,” depicting American nationalism in the classroom. Her photographs show that through patriotic messaging and romanticized history, children are exposed to the idea that history has declared America as the winner.
Alexander Anufriev
School: The Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, Russia
“Russia Close-Up” is a visual illustration of contemporary political themes in Russia: clericalization, patriotic programs and an increase in censorship and propaganda. Anufriev says this period in his country’s history “feels like an important milestone,” and he aims to document the reality of living in modern Russia.
Melissa Kreider
School: University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
“Remnants” is an exploration of the successes and failures of the structures that are responsible for engaging victims of sexual and domestic abuse. Subjects range from the sites of assault to the evidence collection kits, the crime labs and the backlog of rape kits in police evidence rooms, as well as the survivors themselves.
Ksenia Kuleshova
School: Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
Abkhazia, once a region for tourism for the Russian Empire and later, the Soviet Union, is “a lost place on the world map,” Kuleshova says. Following a civil war with Georgia in 1992, it is a partially recognized Russian puppet state without any real industry, infrastructure or educational power. This series looks at the lives of residents who live in a country “caught in a two-decade long sleep.”
Nathaniel Brunt
School: Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Support: Alexia Foundation
“Shaheed” is an intimate photographic exploration of the human cost of the nearly three-decade-long conflict in the Kashmir Valley. Since 1989, Pakistani-backed Muslim Kashmiris have rebelled against Indian administration in the region, and the insurgencies and counter-insurgencies have resulted in nearly 70,000 deaths, more than 8,000 enforced disappearances and numerous cases of torture and sexual violence against civilians.
Angelique Ambrosio
School: School of Visual Arts, New York City
In “Seduction,” office supplies are given a makeover, photographed to look as “sexy” and “desirable” as advertising for beauty products.
Wentao Wei
School: International Center of Photography, New York City
“Appearance and Essence” demonstrates duality: As a child, Wei was taught about the harmony and balance in Chinese philosophy and landscape painting; as an adult, he encountered the West’s rational and scientific way of thinking. Like X-rays of nature, his work plays upon the concept of yin and yang.
Anna Brody
School: Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia
The subject of Brody’s series “Edging, GA” is an imagined town, and through it, she ponders the concept of being in an incomplete state—to be “almost” something. She says: “Maybe that’s what I take pictures of—people and things that are also almost there, who are almost done looking.”
Emanuele Amighetti
School: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Support: Open Society Foundations
A series about the remaining landmines left from the Kosovo War. More than 100 people have been injured by explosives since the United Nations declared the area safe in 2001, and hundreds of rural families have been unable to use the land. In 2008, the UN revised its position and allowed de-mining agencies to return—they are in the process of clearing an estimated 60 minefields by 2020.
Johanna-Maria Fritz
School: Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany
Circuses are typically associated with the West, but “Like a Bird” documents circus projects in Muslim countries, amid armed conflict and rigid religious morality. Shot in Afghanistan, Iran and Palestine, Fritz’s series illustrates the circus as a refuge from unrest and social and religious constraints.
Emile Ducke
School: Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
A portrait of Aidara, a West Siberian village accessible only by boat and home to a small community of Russian Orthodox Old Believers. This faction continues liturgical practices prior to church reforms introduced in the mid-17th century. Life in Aidara, Ducke explains, consists of exhausting agricultural work, and beyond the village is a vast forest, prone to fires that the residents must control in the dry summers.
Simon McCool
School: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
McCool’s poignant series examines the suburban experience, specifically themes of home, family and the American Dream. In the series, he challenges the “security, authenticity and fulfillment” of those themes, but also views the challenge as an opportunity “to embrace the ephemeral and beautiful nature” of the human experience.
Cody Greco
School: University of Toronto, Canada
“Matchbox” is an ongoing series that takes a detailed look at vintage matchboxes from around the world.
Justine Kurland
Title: Highway Kind
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
Editor: Denise Wolff
Design: John Morgan Studio
Text: Lynne Tillman
Kurland, known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and their fringe communities, has spent the better part of the last 12 years on the road. Highway Kind features the scope of her road work from the perspective of an artist traveling with her son.
Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison
Title: Invisible Man
Publisher: Steidl
Design: Duncan Whyte
Invisible Man is the first publication about the 1948 and 1952 collaborations of photographer Gordon Parks and author Ralph Ellison, inspired by their common vision of racial injustice. The book provides an in-depth look at the artists’ shared vision of black life in America, with Harlem as its nerve center.
Torsten Schumann
Title: More Cars, Clothes and Cabbages
Publisher: Peperoni Books
Design: Torsten Schumann and Hannes Wanderer
Text: Hannes Wanderer
Schumann’s collection of humorous and visually ironic street imagery begins with a story about losing his wallet and taking a new passport photo with a black dot on his nose, setting the stage for his idiosyncratic view of the world.
Various
Title: Provoke - Between Protest and Performance
Publisher: Steidl
Editors: Diane Dufour, Duncan Forbes, Walter Moser and Matthew S. Witkovsky
Contributor: Sawada Yoko
Design: Pierre Hourquet
Provoke accompanies the first exhibition about the short-lived, postwar Japanese magazine of the same name, which combined protest photography, performance art and critical theory of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This catalog is a strongly interpretative explanation of currents in Japanese art and society at a moment of historical collapse and renewal.
Elliott Erwitt
Title: Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World
Publishers: Aperture Foundation and Harry Ransom Center
Editors: Jessica S. McDonald
Design: Stuart Smith (SMITH)
Text: Stuart Alexander, Sean Corcoran, Steven Hoelscher and Jessica S. McDonald
Photo Agency: Magnum Photos
Home Around the World features examples of Erwitt’s early experiments in California, his intimate family portraits in New York, his major magazine assignments and long-term documentary interests, and his ongoing personal investigation of public spaces and their transitory inhabitants.
Richard Misrach
Title: Border Cantos
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
Editor: Lesley A. Martin
Project Editor: Katie Clifford
Design: Masumi Shibata
Instruments/Sounds/Text: Guillermo Galindo
Text: Josh Kun
Border Cantos not only presents Misrach’s work along the U.S.-Mexican border since 2004, but also a unique collaboration with composer Guillermo Galindo that offers new perspectives on the critical issues of immigration and border control.
Todd Hido
Title: Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs, a Chronological Album
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
Editor: Denise Wolff
Design: Bob Aufuldish (Aufuldish & Warinner)
Text: David Campany and Katya Tylevich
This mid-career survey of the acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido features his most iconic images as well as unpublished work. Intimate Distance reveals insight into Hido’s practice and illustrates how his unique focus has developed and shifted over time.
Peter van Agtmael
Title: Buzzing at the Sill
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Design: Peter van Agtmael and Katharina Stumpf (Kehrer Design)
Text: Peter van Agtmael
Buzzing at the Sill is van Agtmael’s exploration of the United States in the shadow of the post-9/11 wars. A sequel to Disco Night Sept 11, it begins on a dusk flight over an anonymous landscape, moving unsentimentally—and sometimes surreally—into images of race, class, war, memory, torture, nationalism, family and place.
Sage Sohier
Title: Witness to Beauty
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Design: Sage Sohier and Loreen Lampe (Kehrer Design)
Text: Marvin Heiferman
In this body of work, Sohier photographs her mother, a glamorous ex-fashion model, as she engages with the challenge of aging. Images of her mother in her youth, posing for photographers such as Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, provide a poignant contrast with Sohier’s photographs of her mother as time passes, though she defies expectations and achieves a quality of timeless perfection.
Marta Zgierska
Title: Post
Publisher: Actes Sud
Curator: Diane Dufour (Le BAL)
Text: Christian Caujolle
Post was created in the aftermath of a serious car accident Zgierska experienced in 2013, after months of surgeries, physical limitations, a breakup and aggravated anxiety. “Post is a project about trauma,” she says, though “everyone can find their own punctures: exhausting dreams, fears, obsessions.”
Santu Mofokeng
Title: Stories: 2-4, Concert at Sewefontein—Funeral—27 April 1994
Publisher: Steidl
Concept: Joshua Chuang Design: Victor Balko, Lunetta Bartz and Joshua Chuang
Stories: 2-4 is a set of photo essays about the township of Bloemhof, where, in 1988, Mofokeng began documenting the lives of tenant laborers while on the staff of University of the Witwatersrand’s African Studies Institute. The loose trilogy describes how the residents unwound, buried one of their own and gathered together on one of the most consequential days in South African history.
Richard Renaldi
Title: Manhattan Sunday
Publisher: Aperture Foundation
Editor: Lesley A. Martin
Design: Andrew Sloat
Text: Richard Renaldi
Part homage to New York City nightlife, part celebration of a city onto which people project their ideal selves and ideal lives, Renaldi captures that ethereal moment when Saturday night bleeds into Sunday morning across the borough of Manhattan.
Joshua Rashaad McFadden
Title: Come to Selfhood
Publisher: Ceiba Editions
Concept/Design: Sergio Betti and Eva-Maria Kunz
Cover Art: Giulia Betti
Text: Lyle Ashton Harris and Joshua Rashaad McFadden
In his first monograph, McFadden examines black masculinity, countering the stereotypes imposed on African American men by American society. Through portraiture and testimony, McFadden asks: “What happens when an African American man self-interprets his own identity based upon ideology, reality, memory and experience?”
Michał Łuczak
Title: 11.41
Publisher: Filip Springer
Editor: Andrzej Kramarz
Design: Ania Nałęcka-Milach (Tapir Book Design)
Text: Filip Springer
A portrait of the city of Spitak, which lost a third of its population in the 1988 Armenian earthquake that displaced more than 500,000 people and killed 25,000. Though the city survived, partly rebuilt in a makeshift way, it has never been able to shake off the trauma.
Justin Kimball
Title: Elegy
Publisher: Radius Books
Design: David Chickey and Montana Currie
Elegy features small towns in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Ohio brought to the brink of obsolescence by their economic downturn. In his depiction of communities facing hardship, Kimball examines the persistence of hope and the concept of what it means to be human in our modern world.
Matt Eich
Title: Carry Me Ohio
Publisher: Sturm & Drang
Editor: Mike Davis
Design: Deb Pang Davis
Illustration: Ryn Frank
Text: Kate Linthicum and Steve Scanlan
The Invisible Yoke, Volume I: Carry Me Ohio is a decade-long photo essay about life in the economically depressed region of Southeast Ohio. “Despite circumstances,” Eich says, “these proud Americans persevere and cling to family, community and land with an admirable tenacity.” Though he warns: “Our collective memory favors the convenience of amnesia over acknowledging the damage that we continue to inflict upon ourselves.”
Michael Lundgren
Title: Matter
Publisher: Radius Books
Design: David Chickey and Michael Lundgren
Text: Christian Widmer
Matter is culled from nine years of picture making, a tightly woven sequence conjuring elements of the supernatural across multiple terrains. Departing from the confines of the descriptive landscape, Lundgren says: “Nature is not always the nice redemptive thing we have assumed.”
Adam Ryder
Title: Selections from the Joint Photographic Survey
Publisher: Conveyor Editions
Design: Christina Labey and Elana Schlenker
Text: Benjamin Anderson
Predicated on the discovery of lost archives from an early 20th-century colonial archeological expedition in the Southern Levant, Ryder chronicles the story of this collective endeavor through black-and-white images, original text and calculated slippages that challenge the authority of colonial values, the historical archive and photography itself.
Alex Webb
Title: Alex Webb: La Calle
Publishers: Aperture Foundation and Televisa Foundation
Editor: Rebecca Norris Webb
Design: David Chickey
Text: Guillermo Arriaga, Mónica de la Torre, Álvaro Enrigue, Valeria Luiselli and Guadalupe Nettel
La Calle spans more than 30 years of Webb’s photography from the streets of Mexico. This body of work commemorates the Mexican street as a sociopolitical bellwether—albeit one that has undergone significant transformation since Webb’s first trips to the country.
Nancy Borowick
Title: The Family Imprint
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Editor: Alison Morley
Design: Bonnie Briant
When Borowick’s parents were diagnosed with stage-four cancer and underwent simultaneous treatment, passing away within a year of each other, she did the only thing she knew how to do: She documented it. By turning the camera on her family’s life, Borowick learned a great deal about herself, her family and relationships in general.
Mark Neville
Title: Fancy Pictures
Publisher: Steidl
Design: Duncan Whyte
Text: David Campany and Mark Neville
Fancy Pictures is the first commercially available book on the work of Mark Neville. It brings together six of his socially engaged and long-term immersive projects from the last decade. Neville typically disseminates his photo books for free either to the communities he photographs or to authorities and government policy-makers in order to highlight social issues.
Magnus Wennman
Title: Where the Children Sleep
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Design: Loreen Lampe (Kehrer Design)
Text: Carina Bergfeldt, Jan Broman, Per Broman, Magnus Wennman and Erik Wiman
More than two million children have become displaced due to prolonged war in Syria, leaving their friends, homes and beds behind. In this body of work, a few of these children offer to show where they sleep now, when everything that once was no longer exists.
Mark Peterson
Title: Political Theatre
Publisher: Steidl
Editor: Amy Pereira
Design: Bernard Fischer, Mark Peterson, David Shields and Gerhard Steidl
Text: John Heilemann
Peterson’s caustic black-and-white series about American politicians pulls back the curtain on their performances to show them as they really are. From shortly before the 2013 government shut down to the 2016 presidential election, Peterson cuts through the staging and reveals the cold, naked ambition for power.
