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The Images of 2012: New York

Compelling photographs from New York and the region, including Hurricane Sandy, the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, and the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

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Up Against the Wall: Prison Snapshots

What seemed like an ordinary snapshot of Alyse Emdur, her sister and her brother was actually taken at his prison. It inspired her project on the dreamy backdrops prisoners pose against for portraits...

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Weddings, Indian Style

Sonal Shah, who operates one of the premier Indian wedding planning services in New York, says there is no room for error on that special day.

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Black and White, and Blue

Cyanotype printing used a solution of iron compounds that was briefly popular among photographers — and still claims a following — for its economy, its simplicity and (if the prints are stored...

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Ousted by the City, Tenants Seek a Home

On the crowded fourth floor of a Manhattan building, residents’ lives were upended when officials ordered occupants to leave because of safety violations.

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Guided by Blindness

To document the world of the blind, Gaia Squarci had to rethink her expectations. Her vision was shaped by her many subjects.

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Teaching for Life

Alexis Lambrou has been shadowing a young teacher whose life revolves around her students and colleagues at a Brooklyn public high school.

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Resorts Reborn in Decay

Homesick for the Catskills resorts of her childhood, the photographer Marisa Scheinfeld returned to the bastions of her past as a trespasser and archaeologist.

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After 25 Years, Confronting Alienation in Astoria

A Greek photographer was unmoved by the immigrant community in Astoria, Queens, when he visited as a teenager. Twenty-five years later, he returned, drawn to the same community that alienated him as a...

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Side by Side, Battling Cancer and Sending Off the Bride

Nancy Borowick's parents were receiving chemotherapy together when she realized all she wanted on her wedding day was to have them both walk her down the aisle, together.

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