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Capturing the Beauty of Everyday Life in the Bronx

For two decades, students of the International Center of Photography at the Point have learned analog photography and documented their community.

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Risking Torture and Death to Save Jews During the Holocaust

In “Rescuers,” Gay Block brings to light the efforts of Europeans who put their lives on the line to protect Jews during the Holocaust.

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Beauty and Bleakness: The Efforts to Conserve Coral Reefs

As coral ecosystems face worldwide decline, Alexis Rosenfeld and Alexie Valois were set on chronicling their majesty and their plight — as well as efforts to restore them.

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Looking for America at the Riverhead Raceway

The photographer Johnny Milano spends some summer nights at a Long Island icon like no other.

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What Do Facial Recognition Technologies Mean for Our Privacy?

These photographers pushed the technological limits of photography to explore what makes a face distinct, and how that might affect the way powerful figures see people.

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Photographing His Own Cancer Treatment: ‘A Hell I Wasn't Ready For’

Mark Richards chronicled his battle with cancer, visualizing the agony he endured.

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Picturing Iraq in a Bygone Era

When his career began in the 1950s, Latif Al Ani captured scenes of Iraqi life in a more innocent time.

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In Brazil’s Favelas, Caught Between Police and Gangsters

In his book “46750,” João Pina enters into conversation that reveals, but doesn’t sensationalize, life in the favelas of one of Brazil’s largest cities.

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Surviving the Long-Term Trauma of Sexual Violence

After she was raped, this photographer asked 29 other survivors about their stories.

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Overlooked Stories From Latin American Photographers

For its Latin American Foto Festival, the Bronx Documentary Center is again sharing photography with the community it calls home.