I walk into the masses of people. I look up into the sky and see the buildings, majestic and tall, obscured by the glare of the sun. This is the beehive - the heart of the city. People buzz past me. The car engines whir in traffic jams, their exhaust pipes huffing and puffing. Soon, [...]

I do not deny that I fear snakes. I am not ophidiophobic, but my heart has thus far raced each time I encountered one. Why do we fear snakes so? Yes, some are venomous, but is it really the venom that instills fear? As terrifying as they may be, they are stunning works of nature. [...]

The essence of a rational morality is a ruthless dedication to reality and to the factual requirements of man’s life on earth. Man’s life requires the achievement of values: he must build his houses, grow his food, develop the medicines that cure the diseases which afflict him, and discover the principles in logic, philosophy, [...]

My sister was given a doll once not dissimilar from these ones. She was terrified of her. I always liked to lay the doll down and then set her upright again, just watching her close and open her eyes. She had overtly large green eyes and long luscious lashes that would flutter with every [...]

I wander the streets. I do not know where I am going. I seem to have lost my bearings, yet all I see seem strangely familiar. Perhaps I traipsed through this street a long time ago. I must have. Without much thought, I turn to the left. More of the same. I turn to the [...]

[Simon Johan explores] the human predilection toward fantasy and emotional fulfillment… through the depictions of animals who mirror human conventions. A pair of dreamy foxes in a park during a snowstorm appears to be crying; a llama with a poodle haircut exhibits flamboyance. He creates mythical landscapes that hover in a space between fantasy and [...]

Employing theatrical makeup, elaborate costumes, props and digital manipulation, [Yasumasa] Morimura fastidiously refashions himself as heroines from the canon of painting… [like Frida Kahlo]. Yet, the artifice - and ultimately the failure - of his transformations are always conspicuous. By imitating though never quite becoming [her], Morimura unravels notions of male and female, east and [...]

Today, the weather might be extreme (by mild Portland standards) but the tough conditions in these photos give some rare and valuable comparative scale to the world’s pressing economic and existential problems. It’s all the more poignant as the context comes through the extremely hazardous lens of extreme crab fishing. Sure, times are going get [...]

I was always fascinated with shadows. I liked how it followed me around, playing peekaboo with each turn I make. Sometimes tall and lean, other times short and stout - my personal funhouse mirror. I also liked to think that he was my twin brother, that he was the one leaving the footprints that trailed [...]

In the fall of 2009 I left for Pakistan to start a project around acid and kerosene oil burn victims. I worked with a non-governmental foundation called Depilex Smile Again Foundation which helps burned women with reconstructive surgery, rehabilitation and therapy. There are currently over 400 women waiting for reconstructive surgery after acid attacks in [...]