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- 2 Nashville - 49 photos by Jerry Hall documenting Nashville's eccentric southern nature since 1997.
www.2nashville.com
- A Mendel Photo Essay - Photographs of places associated with the life of Gregor Mendel (born 1822), Abbot of the Augustinian convent in Brno. By Simon Mawer.
www.simonmawer.com/Photopage.htm
- Absent Reality - Alejandro Jaimes-Larrarte's experience with WTC before the tragedy and the events in NY after the tragedy (not photographs of the event itself).
www.jaimes-larrarte.com/art/portfolios.html
- Afganistan - Chris Steele Perkins's pictures from Afganistan in the 1990s, also published as a book and touring exhibition.
www.kiad.ac.uk/gallery/afghan-notes/htmlhome.html
- American Dreams - The inhabitants and landscape of the American Southwest. By Sam Turvey.
home.earthlink.net/~airedale1/a1
- American Families: Beyond the White Picket Fence - By Courteney Coolidge, exploring the lives of ten families across the United States at the dawn of the new millennium.
www.10families.com
- American Pictures - By Jacob Holdt, who hitchhiked more than 100,000 miles throughout the USA in 5 years. A multi-media show since 1976, it has been a focus for the international media as well as human rights and anti-apartheid groups.
www.american-pictures.com
- American Skin - Nation united under a freak flag issue: American strippers, 19-year-olds' world of sex for sale, Alabama drag queens, motel life and a personal journal by Tyler Ondine Whitman.
www.theamericanskin.com
- Apriori: Carol Polakoff - A 1976 photo journey across Russia and a 1996 retrospective.
www.gyoza.com/apriori
- Arrested Images - Street photography of Tokyo, Japan by Canadian photographer Drew Cunningham.
www.arrestedimages.com
- ARTCOUP2 / Belgrade - Two weeks in Belgrade, in black and white, by Boogie. Requires Flash.
www.artcoup2.com
- Artdotnet, A Web-Art Project - Experimental photo stories. First in the series is "Les Filles de Derb Dabachi" by Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, in French and English. [Requires Shockwave]
www.artdotnet.com
- As Long As We Both Shall Live - An ongoing essay depicting long-married couples in America. By Robert Fass.
home.earthlink.net/~robertfass
- Ashfactories - Fire as a cleansing agent and as society's post-industrial solution to the problem of death. By Juraj Lipscher.
webexhibits.org/ashfactories
- Athos - Photography by Zbigniew Kosc of monasteries and monks of Mount Athos, Greece.
home-l2.tiscali.nl/~kosc
- Behind The Stonewall - 5 essays on US Civil War battlefields Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Manassas, Gettysburg and Chickamauga.
www.jatruck.com/stonewall
- Berlin Mitte: Explorations of an Urban Conversion - Photography by Ulrich Wuest looking at the transformation of East Berlin after the fall of communism
uinic.de/berlin-mitte/en/index.html
- Brothers in Arms - Elena de la Vega looks at FARC guerrillas favourite passtime: soccer.
www.footballissimo.com/delavega
- Carpet People of India - Sponsored by the STEP Foundation Switzerland, which works for fair conditions in carpet trade. By Adrian Moser.
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/2400/carpet.htm
- Chanukah in Prague - Romani children in Eastern Europe, Iran snapshots and others by Ben Eden.
beneden.com
- Children of Eastern Europe - Of children living in orphanages and psychiatric hospitals in Russia and Moldova, and who have gone underground in Bucharest, Romania. By Northstar Gallery.
northstargallery.com/pages/RussiaIndex.htm
- China's Yangtze - A strong series of images shot below the submersion levels of China's future Yangtze reservoir. By Bill Zorn.
www.billzorn.com/china/intro.shtml
- Construction of the Gotthard tunnel, Switzerland - Panoramic reportage of the Gotthard tunnel building sites in Zurich and Sedrun (Switzerland). By Mark-Steffen Göwecke.
www.raumzeitfilter.de/tunnel_e.htm
- Country Doctor - The famous photographic essay of W. Eugene Smith considered one of the finest photojournalist of the 20th century.
www.life.com/Life/essay/country_doctor/index.html
- Crios del Sur - Argentina las Villas 2001 - B&W photography of Buenos Aires and San Juan (Argentina), by Spanish photographer Alfonso de Castro.
www.terra.es/personal5/alfonkl
- Cuba 90 - B&W photography of Cuba by Pablo Cabado, showing the contradictions within at the end of the 20th century. Recently published as "Illustratives, Cuba, the 90s".
www.cuba90.com.ar
- Dangerous Sports Club - The 1980s was a time when eccentric upper class Brits braved the ski slopes in grand pianos. Dafydd Jones was on hand to capture it for Tatler.
www.dafjones.com/main/dsc/dsc01.htm
- Day and Night of Dimmed Stars - A black and white photographic essay on the extinguished neon lights of Warsaw.
free.art.pl/neon_lights
- East Side Stories - Black and white photographs of Latino gang members in East Los Angeles by Joseph Rodriguez.
zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/rodriguez/default.html
- Farwell to Bosnia - By Gilles Peress, a member of Magnum Photos. Monochrome images taken over a 4-month period in 1993, now a book as well as a traveling exhibition.
www.pictureprojects.com/bosnia.html
- Fast Forward - By Lauren Greenfield. VII photographer's penetrating look at youths growing up on both sides of the tracks in the shadow of Hollywood - also a book.
zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/lauren2/portada.html
- Fellow Traveller: Photographs of Grass Root Protest - Of protests in the UK, Mexico and India. By R.S. Grove.
weasel2k.no-ip.org/ft
- Fish Camp; A Living Legend in a Vanishing Frontier - Large format photography documenting life at two closely related fish camps along St. John's River near Osteen, Florida. By Carl Gillette.
www.deltaimage.com
- Friends Of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures - Photo journal of industrial structures in the Los Angeles area with commentary and observations. By Greg Ercolano.
www.3dsite.com/people/erco/fovicks
- Full Frame Images - B&W decisive moment/documentary photographs of life in Worcester, Massachusetts (1969-1981). Included are images from various locations in the US. By Robert M Johnson.
www.fullframeimages.com
- Gary Walts: Photographs of my Father - A photo story documenting the years leading up to his father's suicide. [Requires Shockwave]
www.sightphoto.com/sightphoto/story/dad/frameset.html
- Grafted Tokyo - A few days through Tokyo: people and encounters, sounds and fragrances. Street photography by unknown photographer.
www.grafted.net/tokyo
- Greg Williams On Set - A 3-year behind-the-scenes feature of the British film industry.
growbag.net/photographers/gregwilliams/cinema
- Havana Mia - Black and white photo essay presenting Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte's personal perspective on Havana, Cuba.
cgi.pathfinder.com/time/reports/cuba/index.html
- Holding Ground under Water - On China's Three Gorges Dam and its effects on the environment and people of the Yangtze River Basin. By Ben Sandler.
www.holdingground.com
- Hope Revisited - Ten years ago, Hope, a small Kansas country town was struggling to preserve its way of life. A look back since then. Story by Nancy Mays, photos by Keith Mays.
sightphoto.com/sightphoto/story/hope
- In Transit - Interviews and photographs of people on buses in San Francisco. By Clarke Robinson.
www.geocities.com/~intransit1
- Inferno - James Nachtwey's disturbing images of war in the 90s from Chechnya to Rwanda.
www.salon.com/people/portfolio/2000/04/10/inferno/index.html
- Israeli Documentary Photography - Traces the zealot religious groups that populate the Israeli landscape. By Ittai Bar-Joseph.
www.mousymedia.com/redemption
- Lake Street, USA - Six miles of photography by Wing Young Huie, shown on store fronts, bus-stops and as murals along Lake Street, Minneapolis.
lakestreetusa.walkerart.org
- Last Call: Faces of Alcoholism - A portrait of alcoholism by photographer Mark Peterson, featuring residents of the Queens nursing home in Minneapolis. [requires Shockwave]
cgi.pathfinder.com/time/alcoholism/index.html
- Leros - Alex Majoli's disturbing account of the gradual improvements in Greece's most notorious mental asylum.
www.cestino.it/leros/gallery-ing.html
- Looking for the Light - The last decade of the AIDS crisis photographed by well-known New York photographer Scott Thode. Co-published with the New York Times.
www.journale.com/aidsdecade
- Love, Light, Life - 3 images and a theme by Bernard Mendoza.
www.mendozaphotography.com
- Mexican Community in New York City - Photographer Mary Teresa Giancoli documents the rituals, festivals and foods of the Mexican community in New York City.
www.biddingtons.com/content/creativegiancoli.html
- Modern Ruins - Discover the roots of our place in history, through an archaeology of our culture. By Shaun O'Boyle.
oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm
- Northern Kentucky University - Cross Section - A photo-documentary on Christian college students in America.
www.nku.edu/~harmonb
- Over the Roads - Photographs of Iran based on "Towards Ispahan" an Pierre Loti novel. Links to Loti's biography, articles and web-based books.
towardsesfahan.faribahi.com/into1.htm
- Perros Del Sur - Dogs in Argentina, Brazil and Chile by the photographer Alfonso de Castro.
www.terra.es/personal5/alfondog
- PhotogJoe's - Non-fiction about urban life and international travel by a professional photographer cum community activist.
joemjoe.com
- Photos of Taiwan in the 1950s - By Frederick Foley, who taught English and traveled around the island with his camera.
www.usfca.edu/ricci/foley
- Prostitutes of La Merced - Maya Goded's medium format work on Mexican prostitutes.
www.smithfund.org/goded.html
- Saturday Night - By Deborah Wian Whitehouse documenting the 'Saturday Night' experience across America. Selections from the series are in private and public collections.
www.artshow.com/whitehouse/saturdaynight/index.html
- Schifanoia - By K.N. Chaudhuri, historian, writer, and artist who specialises in historical sites and presents through photo-texts and images a distinctive interpretation of landscape.
colophon.com/gallery/schifanoia
- Shadows on the Street - B&W street photography of Zaragoza by Spanish photographer Alfonso de Castro.
www.terra.es/personal6/alfondc
- Shattered 9/12/2001 - Photographs of the WTC attack aftermath by award-winning photojournalist James Nachtwey.
www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered/index.html
- Shore Thing - Images of the New Jersey Boardwalk 1975-85 by Mike Morizio.
members.aol.com/mmorizio/index.html
- Side-ways - This photo-site of Beer Clement contains snaphots from travels by car through Europe, all taken through the car window
home-1.tiscali.nl/~wr4226/side-ways/index.html
- Soccer in Liberia by Tim Hetherington - Tim Hetherington looks at soccer in a Liberia recovering from civil war.
www.foto8.com/issue05/liberiasoc01.html
- Social Landscape - Critical interpretation of contemporary U.S. society and culture. By Gerald John Davey in both monochrome and colour.
www.social-landscape-photo.com
- Soundings - An exploration of the meaning of music through stories about musicians in the State of Missouri since 1997. By Ingrid Young.
sightphoto.com/sightphoto/soundings/soundings.html
- Soviets - Shepard Sherbell - Major project on the end of the Soviet era, from religion to work to punishment
www.sovietsbook.com/photos.html
- Spotfire Images: Photojournal of Fighting Wildfire - Photo-essays of wildland firefighting, including smokejumping and hot shot crews. By Alaska Smokejumper and photographer Mike McMillan.
www.spotfireimages.com
- Still Training - Seamus Murphy's award-winning story on war torn Sierra Leone's Olympic hopefuls.
www.reportage.org/2001/SierraLeoneM/PagesSLM/slmstrip.html
- Terra: Brazil's Landless Movement - Sebastiao Salgado's essay on the life, times and political mobilization of Brazil's landless peasants. [Free registration at New York Times]
www.nytimes.com/specials/salgado/home
- The Angel of the North - By Tim Constable. Images made during a trip home to Newcastle. An attempt to capture both the size of the sculpture and the reaction of people to it.
www.ticopics.freeserve.co.uk/pages/angel.htm
- The Boys of Ramallah - Jean Garup follows a group of Palestinian kids from school to stone-throwing to home.
www.poy.org/59winners/WUA/WUAgrarj01.html
- The Documentary Photograph: Running For The Prize - By Sheldon J. Potter. The 1996 campaign for Tim Sandos, Democratic candidate for Denver, Colorado's US Congressional District 1.
www.essential-connect.com/essential_image/gallery
- The Lost Border, Photographs of the Iron Curtain - By Brian Rose, documenting the landscape of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall in 1985; the dismantling of the Wall at the end of 1989; and the subsequent changes in the border zone, particularly at Potsdamer Platz.
www.brianrose.com/lostborder.htm
- The New Americans - Exploring Watsonville, (strawberry capital of the world, one of dozens of migrant Meccas in California) from the migrant perspective. Story by Ruben Martinez, photography by Joseph Rodriguez.
zonezero.com/exposiciones/road/road.html
- The Other Life - 5 images of Korean people and lifestyles by Park Chang Dai in black and white.
user.chollian.net/~gray18
- The Pigeon Train - 2 photo essays in Korean and English: the Pigeon Train, and soldiers on the northern frontier of South Korea (untitled). By Lee Jin Hong.
members.tripod.com/leejinhong
- The Rebirth of Ground Zero - Of construction in the area where the WTC stood (known as Ground Zero) over the months. By Newsday.com.
www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-wtcphotos0519.photogallery
- Tibetans - An exhibition on Tibet by John Trewin.
members.ozemail.com.au/~scaryjohn
- Trent Parke - B&W images of Sydney's seafront by Trent Parke of Magnum.
www.in-public.com/parkefolio.html
- Truth and Reconcilliation - Jillian Edelstein's medium format pictures from several years of South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconcilliation hearings.
www.red-top.com/files/edelstein/index.html
- Urban Anthropology - Contemporary urban environments in St. Louis, Missouri and Asbury Park, New Jersey. Pinhole camera images by Lisa A. Johnston.
www.aeternus.com/urban
- Vietnam Postcards - Vietnamese culture and lifestyle by Filipino photographer Claro Cortes.
www.angelfire.com/tx/ClaroCortes
- Winter Games at Nagano (1999) - 17 images from the Games. A project by KRT, joint venture of Knight Ridder and the Tribune Co.
www.tbwt.com/interaction/olyfoto/olyfoto.htm
- World War II - The Photos Tell - Images from World War II's Holocaust and the history behind several well-known images. By Louis Bulow.
home19.inet.tele.dk/aaaa/story/index.htm
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