PHOTOESSAYS FROM MOTHER JONES
Women in Prison
Photographs by Melissa Springer
The Julia Tutwiler Prison in Wetumpka, Alabama, houses over 900 women inmates. In 1991, Melissa Springer began documenting their lives.
Born Into Cellblocks
Photographs by Penny De Los Santos
In the penitentiary of Nuevo Laredo, children do time with their mothers—and the cartels.
Bolivia's Cocaine Trade: A Bitter Leaf
Photographs by Marco Vernaschi
In Bolivia, Evo Morales has tried to deliver on a populist revolution. But as impoverished peasants increasingly turn to the cocaine trade, will any hope of a better life be blown away?
Phone Sex Operators
Photographs by Phillip Toledano
Phillip Toledano's Phonesex project reveals the desires, fears, motivations, and most memorable calls of phone sex operators.
The Dying Newsroom
Photographs by Martin Gee
Layoffs leave the San Jose Mercury News office as empty as a morgue.
Mexican Superheroes
Photographs by Dulce Pinzón
It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's a Mexican Immigrant.
Aryan Outfitters
Photographs by Anthony Karen
Meet the Ku Klux Klan's seamstress of hate couture.
San Francisco Olympic Torch Protest
Photographs by Ed Homich
SF protests the Olympic torch's only North American stop.
Out of Iowa
Photographs by Danny Wilcox Frazier
A behind-the-scenes look at what folks on the coasts call "the heartland."
The Anime Within
Photographs by Elena Dorfman
Character studies from the outer reaches of comic-book fandom.
The Last Empire
Photographs by James Whitlow Delano
Can the world survive China's headlong rush to emulate the American way of life?
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans
Photographs Paul Chan
Text By Nick Baumann
There is perhaps no more fitting backdrop for a production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot than New Orleans.
Sea Change
Photographs by Robert Knoth
Text by Julia Whitty and Robert Knoth
As climate change melts the permafrost, Arctic villages slip into the sea, taking a way of life with them.
The Hidden Half
Photographs by Lana Šlezić
Text By Elizabeth Gettelman
How Afghan women have fared since the Taliban's fall.
Fitting Tribute
Photographs by Hank Willis Thomas
Text by Robert Andrew Powell
As the murder rate in Miami's Liberty City climbs, memorial T-shirts—part tombstone, part fashion statement—proliferate.
Mass Arrests at Anti-Nuclear Rally
Photographs by Lionel Delevingne
On May 30, 1977, 2,400 people descended on the town of Seabrook, NH, to protest the building of a nuclear power station. A day later, more than half of them would be arrested.
Gone
Photographs by Richard Ross
Text by Julia Whitty
By the end of the century half of all species will be gone. Who will survive?
American Happiness and the Need to Consume
Photographs by Brian Ulrich
Text by Clara Jeffery
"In 2001, citizens were encouraged to take to the malls to boost the U.S. economy through shopping," he says, "thereby equating consumerism with patriotism. The Copia project, a direct response to that advice, is a long-term photographic examination of the peculiarities and complexities of the consumer-dominated culture in which we live."
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Game Boys
Photographs by Shauna Frischkorn
Text by Clara Jeffery
Eyes cast upward in ecstatic contemplation—500 or 600 years ago these expressions might have been found in a work by Raphael or Guido Reni.
More Equal Than Others
Photographs by Jan van Ijken
Text by Mother Jones
Dutch photographer Jan van Ijken spent the past several years watching humans interact with animals in a range of settings—from research labs and factory farms to exotic bird shows. The result is a series of remarkable images documenting the shifting and ambivalent ways we value other creatures.
Darfur: Rebels and Refugees
Photographs by Daniel Pepper
Conflict in Chad spills over into neighboring Sudan. In a dangerous new development in the three-year-old conflict, around eight thousand refugees from Chad have fled into Darfur in the past two months. Young and armed, Chadian rebels go along with them.
Chernobyl 20 Years Later
Photographs by Lionel Delevingne
A photo essay marks the two-decades anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in history. Although hundreds of thousands of people were permanently evacuated from their homes in the region surrounding the plant, several dozen have insisted on returning, effectively becoming squatters in their former homes.
In the Shadow of Israel's Security Fence
Photographs and Text by Jakob Schiller
A photo essay from the Palestinian border town of Wadi Fukin
Sea Change
Photographs by Andrew Testa
Text by Monika Bauerlein
They outsmarted the tsunami, but Thailand's "sea gypsies" could be swept away by an even greater force.
Scorched Earth
Photographs by Olivier Jobard/Sipa
Text by Monika Bauerlein
At least one-third of Darfur's 6 million people now live in refugee camps either inside Sudan or in Chad, and more arrive every day. Families who try to return home find their houses destroyed; if they stay nonetheless, their villages are ransacked again.
Promised Land
Photographs by Scott Strazzante
Text by Jane Smiley
On yet another family farm, the tractor gives way to the tract home.
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The War on Terror
Unembedded in Iraq
Photographs by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson, Rita Leistner
Text by Phillip Robertson
An unflinching look at the human faces of the war-ravaged country
Coming Home
Photographs Paul Fusco/Magnum
Text by Anthony Swofford
Seven families lay their fallen soldiers to rest.
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Frontier Justice
Photographs by Asim Rafiqui
Text by J. Malcolm Garcia
Pressured by the Pakistani army to produce Al Qaeda fighters or be labeled as collaborators, the tribes of Waziristan turn on each other.
Returning from Iraq, the Damage Done
Photographs by Nina Berman
Text by Verlyn Klinkenborg
It's easy to send soldiers off to war. It's a lot harder to face them when they come home.
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PHOTO CONTENT
A Picture Worth Exactly One Thousand Words
By Garret Keizer
You are looking not only at the image of a war crime, but at the worst fears of a war criminal; the reason that those accused will cooperate, but not implicate.
War Photographer
Rob Nelson reviews this Oscar-nominated portrait of one of the world's most famous war photographers, James Nachtwey.
Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq
Nina Berman Interviewed By Tucker Foehl
An interview with photographer Nina Berman, whose new book vividly shows that many U.S. soldiers bring the war back home.
Leaps of Faith
Photograph By Schelbert/SIPA
Diving into the Neretva River in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Deserted
Sven Torfinn
"They don't expect to go home soon," says Dutch photographer Sven Torfinn of the thousands of Sudanese refugees fleeing from Arab militias in the Darfur region.
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