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Art During Wartime

In opposition to Vladimir Putin’s invasion, Ukrainian performing artists are reasserting their national identity. When I photographed the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, they were rehearsing the works of Stankovych and Barvinsky, Ukrainian composers who’d been banned during the Soviet era. This declaration of Ukrainian culture was considered so important that fighting-aged male symphony members were permitted to leave the country when the symphony took up residency in Germany.

Timing

A broken clock, a chance encounter, a long-distance relationship

Past Futures

billy woods on the Cycles and Patterns of Human History

It just takes the right person, at the right time, to light the right spark and make what previously would have seemed impossible the law of the land. When I was a child, Somalia had a government. They might not have one again for the rest of my life.

The Basement

Teenage parties, lost treasures, wartime bomb shelters

Uniforms

For a job at Burger King, a prison in North Carolina, a girls’ school in Iran

The American Dream

An Indian immigrant, an oil-company man, a bicycle-riding nomad

A Thousand Words

A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.