Americans
Eugene Richards
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Two sisters, one with Alzheimer's, New York.
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Mrs Brown's last hours, Harlem.
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'Americans We', South Boston, Massachusetts.
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Garbage, Earle, Arkansas.
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Cuban refugees, Key West.
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'Killer', Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Ohio.
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Angry boxer, Roxbury, Massachusetts
From hospitals for the criminally insane to elderly sisters with brain disorders, Eugene Richard’s portraits are a haunting and intimate look inside America.
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Philadelphia
Eugene Richards
‘The ‘War Zone’ in Philadelphia is just north of the centre, about a mile and a half from City Hall and across the Street from Temple University.’
Emergency Room
Eugene Richards
‘I saw cuts, burns, broken limbs, heart attacks, and then, what's inside the human body.’
Amazon
Dorothea Lynch & Eugene Richards
‘We women, how in the dark we are about our bodies and what can happen to them. We ask in whispers in the corner at a party or on the telephone, what does a breast lump feel like? What does cancer look like? Will I be all right?’
Something Happened
Madeline Cash
‘She is thorough in a way that is off putting to people. It makes for a good secretary, not a good conversationalist.’
Fiction by Madeline Cash.
Interview
Brea Souders & Alice Zoo
‘How would I feel if I had messaged for years with someone that I later found out was an AI?’
Brea Souders speaks to Alice Zoo about chatbots, interconnection and the dialogue between photography and text in her work.
The Anatomy Of Desire
John L’Heureux
‘He kissed her and caressed her and felt young and whole again. He did not miss his wife and children. He did not miss his skin.’
