Herklas Brown and Maine, 1944In January 1944, at the height of World War II, Gordon Parks photographed Herklas Brown, owner of the general store and Esso gas station in Somerville, Maine. Parks traveled to the state under the auspices of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) to record its contributions to the war effort and to document the home front. His photographs chronicled oil and gas facilities and those who operated them, Esso gas station owners in small towns, and people

queer people and the backwoods of central Maine

confronting Spanish troops and defending the fugitive settlers

Waplington’s final zine of this trilogy takes us on a meandering adventure through the hinterland of New York before finishing up on the Thames estuary where Conrad’s novel begins

and spiders in their webs—paints a world where human roles feel fragile

Over the course of the four years they have known each other

Rosie Marks remembers seeing the trademark pink walls of the Mount Nelson Hotel when she was a kid on a family holiday in South Africa

and marketing plans

half-forgotten place of chance encounters in the middle of the city

His personal practice was rooted in portraiture

Conceptualized with Brody’s longtime collaborator in Afghanistan

the late Norwegian photographer Tom Sandberg spent decades rendering the world according to an exacting vision

As the artist states