Photojournalism

These Haiti Photos Will Make Your Heart Stop

Exclusive images from a country searching for stability.

Photographs by Mark Murrmann

 | Tue January 18, 2011

Inside Haiti's Tent Cities

Scenes from the post-earthquake reconstruction.

Photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Reportage

 | Wed December 8, 2010

The World's Most Arresting Images

21 award-winning pics from the 53rd annual World Press Photo contest.

Slideshow by Mark Murrmann

 | Fri December 24, 2010

Mennonites in Black

Not everyone wants a new iPad.

Photographs by Pete Marovich/zReportage.com

 | Wed December 22, 2010

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Can You Spot the Future Americans?

A mosaic of immigrant ID photos.

Matt Slaby/LUCEO

| Mon November 29, 2010

Elegy for Detroit

Scenes from a city's long, hard fall.

Danny Wilcox Frazier/Redux

 | Mon October 4, 2010

Abandoned Houses: One Block in Detroit

Houses on Detroit's East Side are left to crumble, rot, and burn.

Danny Wilcox-Frazier/Redux

 | Mon October 11, 2010

CSI Desert: When Migrants Die, Who IDs Them?

Photographs by Matt Nager

 | Mon September 20, 2010

Inside California's Birth Defect Mystery

Is Waste Management's toxic dump killing this town's babies?

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| Thu September 2, 2010

What a Tough-Love Sheriff Left Behind

Joe Arpaio's jail deports a dead man walking, and a Mexican family grieves.

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| Mon August 16, 2010

Hot Town, Summer in the City

Bronx Riviera feeling dirty and gritty.

Photos by Wayne Lawrence; text by Laura McClure

 | Fri July 2, 2010

India's Girl Effect

Are microloans the best 21st century birth control device? A photo essay.

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| Thu May 13, 2010

Embedded in Afghanistan

On rotation with the 82nd Airborne. A photo essay.

Chris Sands/Makoto Photo

 | Mon May 17, 2010

Chernobyl's Half Lives

Radiation checkpoints. Contaminated mushrooms. A quarter century after the meltdown, meet the families who chose to stay.

Michael Forster Rothbart/Demotix

 | Fri May 7, 2010

Scenes From the Gay Marriage Battle

This war is high-casualty, too.

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| Wed April 21, 2010

The Terror of Tijuana

The drug war has left a trail of blood in this border city.

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| Wed March 17, 2010

The Congo's Midas Curse

Meet the men and women who bring you the bling.

Marcus Bleasdale/VII

 | Mon March 29, 2010

Inside NYC’s Squalid Adult Homes

NYC group homes getting rich off crappy conditions? A judge says no more.

Photos: Erica McDonald. Text: Jennifer Gonnerman.

| Mon February 22, 2010

Vintage Ads' Pride and Prejudice

A selection of '70s ads depicting African Americans.

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| Fri September 25, 2009

Inside Hamas Summer Camp

A boys' camp in the Palestinian territories.

Eman Mohammed/Demotix Images

 | Tue September 22, 2009