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Documentary Photography

MODERN TIMES: Quarterly magazine next!

: It was time to settle the status quo, now in our sixth year for today's MODERN TIMES. Not only is the world changing with a pandemic (see otherwise in the newspaper), but the public has also changed drastically in the last decade.

Blind doña Maria sees a borderless landscape

Elizabeth Balasso: Doña Maria and your dreams. Photographer Horst Friedrichs

PHOTO BOOK: The book Doña Maria und Ihre Träume offers an exceptional journey through Venezuela's barren and mysterious desert landscape with a touch of magical realism.

Moments into the suffering of others

Rune Eraker, Laara Matsen, Espen Rasmussen: Norwegian Journal of Photography

DOCUMENTARY PHOTO: The opportunity is now to see what professional documentary photographers do.

Nostalgic outsiders

: Three female documentary photographers – Lisette Model, Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin – exhibit their contemporary photographs of marginalized and completely ordinary human imperfections.

The Mafia – part of the state

Kim Longinotto: Shooting the Mafia

BATTLE LETIZIA: She has never presented herself as Italy's "mafia photographer". Battaglia took pictures of Palermo, she says in the film – a city where the mafia is part of daily life.

The knot in the heart

: Photographer Eugene Richards has documented fates in crack environments, in emergency rooms and mental hospitals for over 50 years. What has driven him?