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Photograph of the band u2 standing on a flashy street in Las Vegas

January/February 2022 / Photography

Shooting Stars: A Love Letter to the Backstage Photo

January 17, 2022February 24, 2022 - by Lou D

Intimate, fascinating snapshots of Madonna, Jay-Z, and other VIPs from before Instagram changed celebrity photography forever

Photo of a group of people gathered in a circle around a fire put, after sundown.

March/April 2021 / Photography

Scenes from Canada’s Housing Crisis

March 3, 2021June 14, 2021 - by Amber Bracken

As cities across the country failed their unhoused populations, one Indigenous-led camp in Edmonton offered support

A group of pilgrims pose in front of the Canadian Martyrs Shrine, a large stone building with two turrets topped with crosses.

May 2020 / Photography

Summer Service

April 22, 2020August 27, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

Every year, Sri Lankan Catholics from all over make a pilgrimage to Ontario’s cottage country

A photograph of a blonde woman staring seriously into the camera. She is outside in the evening and wearing a blue winter coat over a red zip-up sweatshirt.

April 2020 / Photography

Meet the Albertans Who Want to Start Their Own Country

March 25, 2020March 26, 2020 - by Brett Gundlock

A photo essay from the front lines of the Wexit movement

A miner stands at the end of a shaft by the mining cart track, with mountains in the background.

December 2019 / Photography

Who Owns Colombia’s Gold?

December 11, 2019April 22, 2020 - by Rémy Bourdillon

Mining operations have pitted a Canadian company against locals who have worked the mountains for generations

A photo of a deserted street in Madoi County against a grey sky.

November 2019 / Photography

China’s New Deserts

December 3, 2019December 4, 2019 - by Ian Teh

The lands around the Yellow River are turning to sand

A man posing seated in front of a painting, which depicts a scene of various people on a beachfront

November 2019 / Photography

One Photographer’s Artistic Encounters with the Selfie Generation

November 14, 2019November 26, 2019 - by Aaron Peck

Four decades into Jeff Wall’s career, the artist is still pushing the limits of what a photograph can be

Photograph of Swimmers in a Budapest Pool

April 2018 / Photography

The Democratic Notion of Nudity

May 8, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Ruth Kaplan

Documenting bathers was a way to free myself—and others—from attitudes about body image

May 2018 / Photography

How Crowdsourcing Is Helping Communities Reclaim Their Stories

May 4, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Paul Seesequasis

The Indigenous Archival Photo Project is an exercise in visual repatriation

girl looking out the window of a moving train

November 2017 / Photography

Scenes from Canada’s First Indigenous-Owned Railway

December 7, 2017August 9, 2021 - by Chloë Ellingson

The Tshiuetin bridges the vast distance between southern and remote central Quebec

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