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Max Whittaker has covered wildfires for over 20 years, and spent two seasons documenting the Tallac Hotshots and other crews in this visual story for The New York Times.
For the past three years, Katie Orlinsky has been photographing an environmental catastrophe that is as urgent as it is overlooked.
Luján Agusti has received a grant from @InsideNatGeo’s Global Storytellers Fund and their new collaboration with @TheClimatePledge to continue her work on peatlands in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
Luján Agusti published part of her ongoing examination of the critical role peat bogs play in the ecosystem of Tierra del Fuego in National Geographic.
Brendan Hoffman photographed Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for French newspaper Libération.
Smithsonian Magazine published Dominic Bracco's work about the monarch migration, one of the longest animal migrations in the world, that could end in our own lifetimes.
Melanie Burford’s short film The Last Mile is the Longest has been shortlisted by the World Health Organization’s Health for All Film Festival.
Max Whittaker and Brendan Hoffman both received Awards of Excellence from the 78th Pictures of the Year International.
Katie Orlinsky was the guest on National Geographic’s podcast “Overheard,” where she talked about her latest work in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness.
Brendan Hoffman traveled to China, India, and Pakistan to document the impact of climate change on the Indus River and communities that rely on its water for the July 2020 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
"During my adolescence I dedicated myself to stealing clothes from my mother. I did it secretly because she got angry. She took great care of her clothes. I took something, I used it and put it back in its place so she would not notice it. She always did. Once I took a shirt and ruined it with a burn. I decided to hide it in the back of the closet so she would never find it. She never found it. When my mom died, all her clothes were left ownerless and without use. What she had cared for so much, finally survived her. "
Photographs, text and design: Luján Agusti
Self-published, printed in Mexico City
May 2016
100 copies
52 color pages, on recycled paper and albanene.
Special 32-page, full-color magazine (edition 1000) which was distributed for free at Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2017 in Washington, DC. Drawn from the long-term, ongoing project The Beating of the Heart, about the small Iowa town of Webster City.
Dominic Bracco II's "Marcha Al Mar" is the first in a collaborative series between Empty Stretch & Prime Collective called "Letters from the Four Horsemen." Photographed over many months in various parts of the world, Bracco focuses on the overfishing & pollution of the world's oceans.
Shallow Graves is a collaborative project by Brett Gundlock, Dominic Bracco II, Chris Gregory, Mauricio Palos, Hans-Maximo Musielik, and Jeremy Relph.
The project covers the events after 43 students went missing in Iguala, Mexico in 2014.
Edition of 100.
Pete Muller will be the featured presenter at The Photo Society’s upcoming TPS Presents speaker series, in which he will discuss his work on masculinities, conflict and human ecology.
Brendan Hoffman will be the featured presenter at The Photo Society’s upcoming TPS Presents speaker series, in which he will discuss his work in Ukraine and elsewhere.
Brendan Hoffman will be included in the “Ukraine Under Attack: Documenting the Russian Invasion” exhibition at this year’s Photoville NYC featuring work by New York Times contributors in Ukraine.
A 40-page self-published newspaper and exhibition catalog of photographs from the war in eastern Ukraine, taken between 2014 and 2017.
21cm x 28cm (folded), 28cm x 42cm (unfolded).
Edition of 2000 (Ukrainian language), 2018.
Collections: DePaul University Special Collections and Archives Department, Chicago Zine Fest Collection