This Is What Outrage Looks Like in Mexico City

Images of the Protestors Who Took to the Streets to Ask Their Government for Accountability—and an End to Violence

Mexicans have taken to social media, and to the streets, to express their outrage at the disappearance in late September of 43 students from a rural teachers’ college in the southern state of Guerrero. The students were last seen in the city of Iguala the night of September 26, after an altercation with local security forces. Now, six weeks later, Mexican authorities have found burned remains of what they believe are the students’ bodies; they also have videotaped confessions from the people who carried out their murders. The mayor of …

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You’ve Never Seen the California Coast Like This Before

Laura Plageman Photographs the Pacific, Crumples Up Her Prints, Then Photographs Them Again

A craggy rock emerges in sharp relief out of the ocean. Swarms of birds descend into crashing waves. A blue sky of clouds resembles a crumpled piece of paper, discarded …

Big Rigs, Blown Tires, and Breakfast on the Dashboard

A Trucker’s Day Unfolds from Long Beach to Mira Loma and Back Again

Beatriz Rios-Nava is a port truck driver. She’s also an enthusiastic photographer who snaps pictures with her cell phone on her trips to Ontario or Mira Loma or to the …

Scenes of Ebullience—and Unease

Garry Winogrand’s Photographs Capture ‘America’s Busy, Teeming, Intricate Whirl’ After World War II

If hashtags had existed right after World War II, America’s would’ve been #winning.

Besides emerging victorious from the deadliest war in history and demonstrating American might to Europe and Asia, the …

The L.A. Skyline, Before It Changes

This City Changes Depending on Where You Look at It—and When

Skylines are supposed to define cities. But skylines change, just like the cities below them. And Los Angeles is approaching a major moment of change with construction underway on the …

The Posters That Sold World War I

One Hundred Years Later, These Ads Will Still Make You Stop and Listen to Uncle Sam

On July 28, 1914, World War I officially began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. In Europe and beyond, country after country was drawn into the war by a web …