Anyone who has traveled in Europe has marveled at its abundance of ornate churches, from Romanesque and Gothic to Renaissance and Baroque. Photographing them is nothing new, but Markus Brunetti has for 10 years now brought the most advanced…

As a student some 40 years ago Edward Burtynsky was given an assignment to show "evidence of Man." He took the assignment so much to heart, he made it his life's work. He wondered what it would be like to be an alien sent to Earth to report on…

John Chiara has made a career of revealing in a wholly new manner places that have been captured endlessly in paintings and photographs. Early on, in his last year at art school, he built an enormous camera obscura hauled on a truckbed that he used…

Since the dawn of photography, a vast array of Westerners have captured the Far East in ways that perpetuate sentimental, outdated or plainly erroneous stereotypes — either from colonialist condescension or the naiveté of peeking out from an…

Eamonn Doyle is a Dublin-based street photographer who has found a way to refresh the increasingly predictable practice of shooting strangers in urban settings. Finding elevated angles that flatten his unsuspecting subjects onto reductive…

Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz, whose work will be featured in the groundbreaking exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 at the Hammer Museum, began her practice late in life. Her early love of art was squashed by a…

Danish photographer Joakim Eskildsen spent seven years shooting Romany tribes, or Roma — Gypsies, as they are usually called by Anglophones who don’t know that it’s considered by many to be a racial slur. The name derives from the misconception that…