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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 by Raghubir Singh, courtesy Royal Ontario Museum

What Are the Moral Responsibilities of a Photographer?

October 24, 2018November 14, 2019 - by Manini Sheker

Raghubir Singh helped people to see India in a new way. But he also helped to romanticize its poverty

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

Photograph by Aftab Uzzaman

First Person / Web Exclusives

Why I Developed a Roll of Film I Found on the Curb

December 26, 2017December 2, 2019 - by Christine Estima

I tracked down the people in the photos. It did not go as planned

Courtesy of Ross Dunn

Society / Web Exclusives

Remembering the Halifax Explosion

December 6, 2017November 15, 2019 - by Katie Ingram

On the hundredth anniversary of the disaster, we look back at how some of the city’s children miraculously survived

Photograph courtesy of Tobias Higbie / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

First Person / Web Exclusives

Red, White, and True

March 26, 2015November 25, 2019 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

An American-born Walrus editor takes the Canadian citizenship test