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2 Nashville - http://www.2nashville.com/
49 photos by Jerry Hall documenting Nashville's eccentric southern nature since 1997.

9-11 Images - http://www.9-11images.com
Photographic journey through the aftermath of 9-11, the heroes, the missing and the mourning, in memory of those who died.

Absent Reality - http://www.jaimes-larrarte.com/art/p/g/wtc/wtc_preface.html
Alejandro Jaimes-Larrarte's experience with WTC before the tragedy and the events in NY after the tragedy (not photographs of the event itself).

Afghanistan - http://www.kiad.ac.uk/gallery/afghan-notes/htmlhome.html
Chris Steele Perkins's pictures from Afghanistan in the 1990s, also published as a book and touring exhibition.

AfghanPix.com - http://www.afghanpix.com/
Detailed photo essay covering the civil war and the daily life of Afghans, by Alexander Merkushev.

Akbar Nazemi - http://www.iranrevolution.com/
Purchasing information for photos and images of Iran Revolution.

American Families: Beyond the White Picket Fence - http://www.10families.com
By Courteney Coolidge, exploring the lives of ten families across the United States at the dawn of the new millennium.

American Pictures - http://www.american-pictures.com/
By Jacob Holdt, who hitchhiked more than 100,000 miles throughout the USA in 5 years. A multi-media show since 1976, it has been a focus for the international media as well as human rights and anti-apartheid groups.

Around the World in a Viewfinder - http://www.jpsviewfinder.com/documentary/
A selection of photo essays by Jean-Philippe Soule to present various Native Cultures.

As Long As We Both Shall Live - http://www.longmarriedcouples.com
An ongoing essay depicting long-married couples in America. By Robert Fass.

Ashfactories - http://webexhibits.org/ashfactories/
Fire as a cleansing agent and as society's post-industrial solution to the problem of death. By Juraj Lipscher.

Behind The Stonewall - http://www.jatruck.com/stonewall/
5 essays on US Civil War battlefields Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Manassas, Gettysburg and Chickamauga.

Berlin Mitte: Explorations of an Urban Conversion - http://uinic.de/berlin-mitte/en/index.html
Photography by Ulrich Wuest looking at the transformation of East Berlin after the fall of communism

Children of Eastern Europe - http://northstargallery.com/pages/RussiaIndex.htm
Of children living in orphanages and psychiatric hospitals in Russia and Moldova, and who have gone underground in Bucharest, Romania. By Northstar Gallery.

China's Yangtze - http://www.billzorn.com/china/intro.shtml
A series of images shot below the submersion levels of China's future Yangtze reservoir. By Bill Zorn.

Construction of the Gotthard tunnel, Switzerland - http://www.raumzeitfilter.de/tunnel_e.htm
Panoramic reportage of the Gotthard tunnel building sites in Zurich and Sedrun (Switzerland). By Mark-Steffen Göwecke.

East Side Stories - http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/rodriguez/default.html
Black and white photographs of Latino gang members in East Los Angeles by Joseph Rodriguez.

Evaporated Milk - http://www.photojournalistas.com/Sept-Oct_2002/Evaporated_Milk/Evaported_Milk_Index.html
A photo essay and story with over thirty photos about the declining number of family dairy farmers in Northern New England.

Farwell to Bosnia - http://www.pictureprojects.com/bosnia.html
By Gilles Peress, a member of Magnum Photos. Black and white images taken over a 4-month period in 1993, now a book as well as a traveling exhibition.

Fast Forward - http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/lauren2/portada.html
By Lauren Greenfield. A photographer's penetrating look at youths growing up on both sides of the tracks in the shadow of Hollywood - also a book.

FotoFestival Naarden - http://www.efn.org/~hkrieger/fotofest.htm
Photo essay about a photo festival in Holland.

Friends Of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures - http://seriss.com/people/erco/fovicks/
Photo journal of industrial structures in the Los Angeles area with commentary and observations. By Greg Ercolano.

Gary Walts: Photographs of my Father - http://www.sightphoto.com/sightphoto/story/dad/frameset.html
A photo story documenting the years leading up to his father's suicide. [Requires Shockwave]

Havana Mia - http://www.time.com/time/reports/cuba/index.html
Black and white photo essay presenting Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte's personal perspective on Havana, Cuba.

Holding Ground under Water - http://www.holdingground.com
On China's Three Gorges Dam and its effects on the environment and people of the Yangtze River Basin. By Ben Sandler.

Hope Revisited - http://sightphoto.com/sightphoto/story/hope/
Ten years ago, Hope, a small Kansas country town was struggling to preserve its way of life. A look back since then. Story by Nancy Mays, photos by Keith Mays.

http://home-l2.tiscali.nl/~kosc/ - http://home-l2.tiscali.nl/~kosc/
Photography by Zbigniew Kosc of monasteries and monks of Mount Athos, Greece.

http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/iceledo/ - http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/iceledo/
This site contains photos of a small area of the Arkansas Ozarks called Iceledo. These are seasonal photos of streams and woodlands taken during the late 1970's by Willie Weeks.

Hutong Photography - http://www.hutongphotography.com
A portfolio of photographs of Beijing's hutongs by the photographer Iain Masterton

Jan Shim Photography - http://www.janshim.com
Collection of the people and places one Brunei Darussalam ambassador has been and met during his official business.

Kurdistan photographs - http://members.ams.chello.nl/zkosc/Kurdistan%20main%20page/kurdistan.html
Features photographs of Kurdistan (Turkey) people, landscape and history by Zbigniew Kosc.

Lake Street, USA - http://lakestreetusa.walkerart.org
Six miles of photography by Wing Young Huie, shown on store fronts, bus-stops and as murals along Lake Street, Minneapolis.

Last Call: Faces of Alcoholism - http://www.time.com/time/alcoholism/index.html
A portrait of alcoholism by photographer Mark Peterson, featuring residents of the Queens nursing home in Minneapolis. [requires Shockwave]

Looking for the Light - http://www.musarium.com/aidsdecade/menu.html
The last decade of the AIDS crisis photographed by well-known New York photographer Scott Thode. Co-published with the New York Times.

Mexican Community in New York City - http://www.biddingtons.com/content/creativegiancoli.html
Photographer Mary Teresa Giancoli documents the rituals, festivals and foods of the Mexican community in New York City.

Modern Ruins - http://oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm
Discover the roots of our place in history, through an archaeology of our culture. By Shaun O'Boyle.

Monks, Fran - http://www.franmonks.com
Photos of 'Miscellaneous Heroes'.

Morning Light Photography - http://morninglight.us/
Seasonal and scenic photographs from the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.

Navajo Art - http://artsales.com/ARTists/earl_waggoner/
Navajo indian culture and history in pictures. Earl Waggoner lived on the Navajo Indian Reservations in the 1950s and recordered the culture of the Nation among dramatic panoramic views of the Southwest.

New York Changing - http://www.newyorkchanging.com/
Berenice Abbott's Changing New York project with the identical camera, at the same time of day and year, showing the city's evolution over 65 years.

Over the Roads - http://www.towards-esfahan.com/
Photographs of Iran based on "Towards Ispahan" a Pierre Loti novel. Links to Loti's biography, articles and web-based books.

Photo Aid Project - http://www.photo-aid-project.com
Promotional photography to humanitarian aid organizations.

PhotogJoe's - http://joemjoe.com
Non-fiction about urban life and international travel by a professional photographer cum community activist.

Samuel's Spina Bifida Surgery In Utero - http://www.michaelclancy.com
Miraculous photograph of a twenty-one week old fetus reaching out of his mother's womb to grasp the hand of his surgeon.

Sands Hotel - http://www.socala.com/sands/
Pictures and photo essay of the last day the historic Las Vegas Sands Hotel and Casino.

Schifanoia - http://colophon.com/gallery/schifanoia/
By K.N. Chaudhuri, historian, writer, and artist who specialises in historical sites and presents through photo-texts and images a distinctive interpretation of landscape.

Scott Carrier: From Afghanistan - http://www.hearingvoices.com/webwork/carrier/afghan/
A photo-audio-essay, with excerpts from Harper's magazine article: "After the Fall, Letters from Afghanistan" (April 2002).

Shattered 9/12/2001 - http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered/index.html
Photographs of the WTC attack aftermath by award-winning photojournalist James Nachtwey.

SKL Photography - http://wave.prohosting.com/jsklee/index_e.html
A web photo diary showing Hong Kong, China from the photographer's point of view.

Slices of America - http://www.slicesofamerica.com
Taylor Lasseigne's album of photos from around the U.S. and Canada.

Soccer in Liberia by Tim Hetherington - http://www.foto8.com/issue05/liberiasoc01.html
Tim Hetherington looks at soccer in a Liberia recovering from civil war.

Soundings - http://sightphoto.com/sightphoto/soundings/soundings.html
An exploration of the meaning of music through stories about musicians in the State of Missouri since 1997. By Ingrid Young.

Soviets - Shepard Sherbell - http://www.sovietsbook.com/photos.html
Major project on the end of the Soviet era, from religion to work to punishment

Spotfire Images: Wildfire Photojournal - http://www.spotfireimages.com/
Photo-essays of wildland firefighting, including smokejumping and hot shot crews. By Alaska Smokejumper and photographer Mike McMillan.

St.Helier, Jersey - http://www.fotolog.com/st_helier_jersey/
A photo guide to St.Helier,Jersey documenting its history and its relationship with New Jersey.

Still Training - http://www.reportage.org/2001/SierraLeoneM/PagesSLM/slmstrip.html
Seamus Murphy's award-winning story on war torn Sierra Leone's Olympic hopefuls.

Streets of Osaka 1996-97 - http://www.subjectivite.net
A personal view of the street life in this city.

Terra: Brazil's Landless Movement - http://www.nytimes.com/specials/salgado/home/
Sebastiao Salgado's essay on the life, times and political mobilization of Brazil's landless peasants. [Free registration at New York Times]

The Boys of Ramallah - http://www.poyi.org/59/WUA/
Jean Garup follows a group of Palestinian kids from school to stone-throwing to home.

The Call Centre - http://www.ripserve.com/callcentre/
A documentary on the people and work at a particular call centre, by Jonh Perkins.

The Lost Border, Photographs of the Iron Curtain - http://www.brianrose.com/lostborder.htm
By Brian Rose, documenting the landscape of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall in 1985; the dismantling of the Wall at the end of 1989; and the subsequent changes in the border zone, particularly at Potsdamer Platz.

The New Americans - http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/road/road.html
Exploring Watsonville, (strawberry capital of the world, one of dozens of migrant Meccas in California) from the migrant perspective. Story by Ruben Martinez, photography by Joseph Rodriguez.

The Photo Documentary Press - http://photodocumentarypress.com
Black and white photo essays and documentary work with passion. Specializing in editorial assignments, portraits, weddings, and fine art books.

The Pigeon Train - http://members.tripod.com/leejinhong/
2 photo essays in Korean and English: the Pigeon Train, and soldiers on the northern frontier of South Korea (untitled). By Lee Jin Hong.

Tibetans - http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scaryjohn/
An exhibition on Tibet by John Trewin.

Town Meeting: Democracy By The People - http://www.photojournalistas.com/Sept_Oct_2003/Town_Meeting/Town_Meeting_Index.html
In-depth story, accompanied by over twenty photos, about the town meeting form of government.

Trent Parke - http://www.in-public.com/trentparke
Black and white images of Sydney's seafront by Trent Parke of Magnum.

Vietnam Postcards - http://www.angelfire.com/tx/ClaroCortes/
Vietnamese culture and lifestyle by Filipino photographer Claro Cortes.

Women They Left Behind - http://www.handheldmagazine.com/issue%20two/newpage/Projects/projectPowell1.html
A photo essay on women survivors of the Vietnam War, these are mothers, wives, daughters and sister of those killed in the Vietnam War.

World War II - The Photos Tell - http://www.auschwitz.dk/story/
Images from World War II's Holocaust and the history behind several well-known images. By Louis Bülow.

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