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How will the world end? Will it be an asteroid, extreme climate conditions, a viral pandemic? No one really knows, which is why apocalypse scenarios are such rich territory for imaginative artists like Lori Nix. The Brooklyn-based photographer creates and …

In his new Light Painting KATA series, Patrick Rochon makes fluid designs by moving around in a martial arts-inspired dance while holding custom lightsaber flashlights.

In The Seven Percent project, Reed Young photographed India’s growing elite to show that the country is more varied economically than than has been traditionally documented in the media.

What happens if you develop film that’s been soaked in caustic liquids? Blown out, grainy, strangeness. That’s what.

Marilyn Monroe is best known as the blond bombshell holding her dress down for a scene in The Seven Year Itch — as an American icon and sex symbol, but many of the women who pretend to be her either …

Michael Shainblum’s new Mirror City project takes two visual tricks—urban time-lapses and the kaleidoscope effect—and combines them to make a video that’s full of eye candy.

Raw File reporter Pete Brook travels to Pickathon, a beloved music festival outside Portland, Oregon, to learn just what makes a good music festival photograph.

It often happens that news events create a new context for existing photo projects, and such is the case with Philip Jarmain’s photos of Detroit in light of the city’s recent filing for bankruptcy.

Photographer Joe Johnson’s series Megachurches takes us down the aisles, inside the sanctuaries and behind the scenes of jumbo-sized places of worship. Taken while the churches are not in daily use, Johnson’s photographs focus on both the mammoth interior space …

Like diagrams of the earth’s core or a slice of fruit, it turns out golf balls reveal a colorful geometry when cut in half.

After 25 years as a boilermaker, shipfitter and welder, photographer Joseph Blum knows his way around construction sites. His remarkable photographs take us behind-the-scenes on the construction of the new eastern span of San Francisco’s bay bridge, and are on …

Part art project, part utopian experiment, a street artist by the name of Swoon, as well as a band of artists, DIYers, and other free-spirits, has built a collection of ramshackle, yet visually striking rafts to float down rivers and …

Germany has agreed to close all of their nuclear power plants by 2022, but before that happens, German photographer Michael Danner wanted to get in and photograph them. Between 2007 and 2011 he visited 17 nuclear power plants and in …

At first glance, Kimberly Witham’s photos are pleasant to look at, just like the idealized designs they’re meant to criticize. They’re bright, colorful and nicely arranged. Then you see the roadkill.

Chances are you enjoyed some fireworks earlier this month for July 4th. But we’re sorry to tell you that Mexico does explosions better than the United States. The proof is in Thomas Prior’s heart-racing photographs from the National Pyrotechnic Festival …

In January of this year, Jessica Lum, a fledgling, spirited journalist less than a year out of Berkeley’s Graduate Journalism School, died following a 4-year battle with cancer. She was 25. In spite of her illness and her youth, Lum …

Earlier this year the Chicago Sun-Times made national headlines when it purged its photo staff and replaced them with iPhone-wielding reporters. To try and track what many suspected would be a decline in the paper’s visual coverage, Chicago freelance photographer …

About an hour into the drive to the Vogler household, one’s sense of time and place starts to distort. The road couldn’t possibly be any longer, yet it continues to lead farther and farther away from civilization and modern conveniences.

As far as personality traits go, industriousness and a desire to destroy are a powerful combination. Photographer Jon Smith has both. Two years ago, he began shooting household items in his garage with a pellet gun and photographing the explosions. …

When photographer Kirk Crippens came to Portland, he wanted to test the version of the city put forth by the hit comedy Portlandia. He made 45 portraits and expected his work to stand in sharp contrast to the fictions of …