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Halle by Day

Hans Joachim Ellerbrock

‘Partly as a result of emissions from these plants, but more particularly because brown coal is burnt in private houses, Halle has the highest level of air pollution in Germany.’

The Contents of Pockets

Luc Sante

‘Time in its passing casts off particles of itself in the form of images, documents, relics, junk.‘

Die Hel

David Goldblatt

‘Die Hel is a remote valley in the Swartburg Mountains of the south-western Cape.’

The Mississippi Delta

Ken Light

‘In the last three years I have driven along some of the smaller, less-travelled roads of the Mississippi Delta.’

Spring Break at Daytona Beach

Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark’s photographs of spring break at Daytona Beach in Granta 39: The Body.

My Daughter

Geoffrey Biddle

Geoffrey Biddle’s photographs of his family in Granta 39: The Body.

Sideshow

Antonin Kratochvil

Antonin Kratochvil’s photographs of sideshow performers for Granta 39: The Body.

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.’

Alphabet City

Geoffrey Biddle

‘When I first worked here, the neighbourhood was not called Alphabet City. It was the Puerto Rican part of the Lower East Side and the Puerto Ricans called it Loisaida, low-ee-SIGH-da, a new York-Puerto Rican version of Lower East Side.’

Mothers, Daughters, Sons

Markéta Luskačová

Markéta Luskačová’s photographs of women and children for Granta 37: The Family.

In the Andes

Sergio Larrain

Sergio Larrain’s photographs of the Andes for Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President.

Of Bankers and Soldiers

Alex Kayser

Alex Kayser’s photographs of Swiss bankers and soldiers for Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace.

Christmas in Bavaria

Jan Bogaerts

‘Bergtesgaden was, for some time, the home town of both Adolf Hitler and Dieter Eckhardt, the father of national socialism.’

The Suburbs of Cairo

Fouad Elkoury

Fouad Elkoury’s photographs of life in Cairo’s suburbs.