Discover the art of photography in context

• Tim Hetherington (1970-2011)

Vulnerable portrayals of soldiers asleep amidst intense wartime conditions, challenging conventional war imagery.

• Grete Stern (1904-1999)

An editorial series of reader-submitted dreams, presented as photomontages.

• Jerry N. Uelsmann (1934-2022)

Black-and-white Yosemite photomontages, creating improbable yet visually coherent pictorial spaces through analog darkroom compositing of multiple negatives.

• Ralph Gibson (1939)

Dreamlike exploration of subconscious perception with fragmented compositions, stark contrasts, and a surreal interplay of light and shadow.

• Roger Ballen (1950)

Symbolic exploration of psychological dualities, staged within a surreal and confined environment inhabited by humans and birds.

• Vane Bor (1908-1993)

Camera-less photograms made in 1928, combining deliberate handling and chance to reduce deformed objects to flattened forms.

• Roger Ballen (1950)

Psychic fragmentation and the merging of reality and fantasy, presented through photographs of ephemeral glass interventions.

• Roger Ballen (1950)

Psychologically charged black-and-white images created in a decaying warehouse, where fragmented figures and symbolic clutter blur the line between dream and delirium.

• Wendy Ewald (1951)

Children’s perspectives on themselves and their communities, presented through participatory photography in Wendy Ewald’s Kentucky school workshops.

• Maleonn (1972)

Memory, aspiration, and performed identity in contemporary China, examined through participant-directed staged portraits in a mobile studio.

• Vincent Fournier (1970)

The infrastructure behind human spaceflight, photographed at space-related sites on several continents.

• Sean Kernan (1942)

Symbolic presence of books as carriers of fragile knowledge and mortality, rendered in black-and-white still lifes with bones, stones, and other objects.

• Roger Parry (1905-1977),
• Fabien Loris (1906-1979)

Collaborative project between a writer and photographers, published during the interwar period, and recognized as one of the earliest photographically illustrated Surrealist books.

• Alec Soth (1969)

American dreams and disillusionments via portraits and interiors structured around metaphors of sleep, journey, and emotional solitude, rooted in the topography of the Mississippi River.