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Save this story for later. A few years ago, while on a road-trip assignment with the photographer Andre Wagner, I began to needle him with questions about street photography. I wanted to know about the emotional mechanics and structure of it: what a photographer’s eye picks up, what makes a stranger agree to a moment of intimacy with someone she may never see again. Andre told me that it primarily entailed getting people to trust you within a short window of time. But there was another secret, too. Andre loved photographing Black people. They were familiar to him, as he was to them. He c...

Meet the Gay Publisher Behind 'Playgirl Magazine's Bold Relaunch When Los Angeles nightclub owner Douglas Lambert and editor Marin Scott Milam teamed up to launch Playgirl’s first issue in 1973, no one could have anticipated the public response. At the height of the feminist movement, when print titles continued to objectify women’s bodies against the backdrop of a growing revolution, Playgirl offered a different perspective. The magazine welcomed the notion that women, in fact, could be authoritative voices on sex, culture, and their own existence. At its peak in the mid-to-late ’70s...

Creator Labs continued to support rising talents in the creation of new work and amplify important cultural narratives. "The ten artists participating in Creator Labs were chosen for their ability to author distinct, concentrated visual essays from sincere, personal points of view," the program's mission statement reads. "Their stories illuminate under-celebrated figures, widen narrow definitions and interrogate human nature to discover new truths. By initiating Creator Labs and bringing attention to the careers of these creators, Google hopes to aid in their continued creation of authentic w...

When I ring A Creative Convening by Kerry James Marshall, having just moved house. He describes the book to me as a collation of “a number of Black intellectuals talking about Kerry James Marshall’s work in relation to the Black space; creating Black space, and how to challenge things in the 21st century”. His choice of reading comes as no surprise considering Woods’ introspective thoughts in recent years; trying to understand what it means to be a Black photographer and to showcase Black experiences on a world-stage, whose lens is too often focused on its trials and tribulations. �...

Project report. >> barrelling down on their target, eight car convoy speeds along the back roads of brazil's cattle country, only recently carved out of the vast amazon rain forest. this, one of just four mobile units cracking down on labor exploitation across the country. >> we've got 25 kilometers ahead. we're looking for this ranch after they got tips. >> on this day, they get sent in different directions, but the info is old. workers have moved on and they come up empty handed. andre wagner in charge of this latest operation, says exploitation engrained in brazil's longest agriculture