Discover the art of photography in context

• Ken Domon (1909-1990)

Hiroshima survivors’ physical and emotional scars through stark, unstaged black-and-white social realist photography, emphasizing both suffering and resilience thirteen years after the atomic bombing.

• Jan Banning (1954)

Reconciliation between survivors and perpetrators after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, documented through formally constructed paired portraits.

• Jon Lowenstein (1970)

Aftermath and social fracture following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, documented through rough Polaroid negatives and sober scenes across Port-au-Prince shelters and streets.

• Kikuji Kawada (1933)

Abstract photographic reflection on Japan’s cultural memory, wartime scars, and the search for postwar identity.

• George Barnard (1819-1902)

A chronicle of the Civil War capturing the destruction of the South during Sherman’s campaign with artistic and historical precision.

• Sarah Pickering (1972)

Reusable firefighter-training interiors, documented through large-format black-and-white photographs.

• Shōmei Tōmatsu (1930-2012)

The haunting remnants of the atomic bomb’s impact on Nagasaki, blending deformed objects and intimate portraits of survivors to reflect on themes of trauma, resilience, and the impermanence of life.

• Vic Bakin (1984)

Youth and loss in Ukraine through prints showing damaged land, young faces, and visual marks shaped by conflict and forced transformation.

• Tamas Dezsö (1978)

Social and material aftermath in post-communist Romania, documented through subdued color photographs of everyday routines and structural decay, across depopulating villages and shuttered factory towns.

• Alexander Gardner (1821-1882),
• Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840-1882),
• James F. Gibson (1828/29–?),
• ... and 7 more

A visual chronicle of the Civil War, created through the collaborative efforts of eleven photographers to preserve pivotal moments of 19th-century American history.

• Boris Mikhailov (1938)

Post-Soviet homelessness in Kharkiv, photographed in colour through paid, negotiated posing and selective direction.

• Erika Diettes (1978)

Grief, memory, and absence in the aftermath of violence through portraits of Colombian women and their testimonies of loss during decades of armed conflict.

• Pablo Ernesto Piovano (1981)

Health and environmental consequences arising from agrochemical dependence in Argentina’s northeastern rural regions.

• Erika Diettes (1978)

Submerged clothing belonging to victims of forced disappearance in Colombia reveals the persistence of grief, remembrance, and social silence.

• Giancarlo Ceraudo (1969)

The Argentine dictatorship’s death flights and enforced disappearances, investigated through long-term documentary photography.