The next installment in the Memory Loss series, exploring public and private remembrance in New York City, unearths the complex lives of living memorials.

In this visual essay, photographer Dafe Oboro reminisces about the sartorial traditions his generation of Nigerians grew up with.

“Don’t take chances,” he said. “Given your history.” But chances, not history, are what we’re given.

In this photoessay, a Washington State firefighter recounts how suppressing wildfires involves bleeding hands, burning lungs, and rare moments of freedom.

A trip to the border—and the bridge that connects Brownsville, Texas with Matamoros, Mexico—remembered in words in images.

Indigenous peoples are disproportionally burdened by climate change. Yet, their traditional knowledge is essential to securing the health of our planet.

Irreverent and incisive photographs of a 1968 camp on the National Mall evoke the power of protest.

Following the Hashd al-Shaabi, the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq fighting ISIS, I’d become more superstitious in small ways—and the more superstitious I became, the more I feared loss.

Photographer Marko Drobnjakovic captures migrants seeking shelter in central Belgrade, Serbia.

Images from northern Iraq—liberated, destroyed, and back again.

Images from Trump's America: a grim inauguration, a joyful march, and memories of a family history shaped by US immigration laws.

Returning home to Beirut to cover the Syrian refugee crisis, a photographer uncovers the city of her childhood.

A photographic portrait of war, peace, and life in the countryside.

Finding a language for the refugee crisis, in photographs.

Photographs of war from the border of Turkey and Syria.

A photographer crosses state lines and ideological borders to talk to voters on the eve of America's presidential election.

“Nothing Erased But Much Submerged” reveals memory as a process and singularly charged moment in which fire burns through the pages of a young girl’s diary.

Photographs of inquiry and discourse across San Francisco.

Jonah Bokaer’s immersive performances explore relationships between technology and the body.

Free Expression: A studio visit shows how the photographer obscures her images in order to reveal. J owhara AlSaud’s images reveal the latent possibilities of her medium, photography. In manipulating portraits of friends and family in her series Out of Line (2008-2010) and further obscuring her subjects in Knots (2011-2012), the artist explores social and […]

Kony 2012 is the starting point—but not the ending point—for this collection of images

Photographer Philip Scott Andrews intimately documents the final flights of the Space Shuttle

Foreign photographs of Baghdad usually have three subjects: guns, bombs, and pickup trucks. Marieke van der Velden shows us what happens when the camera turns a few degrees away.

Alone together in the metropolis

In Russian, a language in which there is a separate word for everything, the word “country” means both the territory and the government.

Clothes make a life.

The Impossible Project gets crafty with instant film.

Photographer Glenna Gordon captures Liberia’s first independent presidential elections and the rough aftermath.

In these photographs, a series of linked histories are forced together in Utah’s deserted Bonneville Salt Flats.

A photographer finds accidental sculpture throughout India's Tamil Nadu.

Photographer Clifford Owens’s show Photographs with an Audience stands as an antidote to the distance and simulacra currently dictating how people interact with each other and themselves.

A series of photographs inspired by Nigeria’s film industry that demonstrates the possibility for multiple narratives within the same space.

An exploration of a Ugandan man’s legacy.