FirstLook: A Mother’s Kiss

FirstLook: A Mother’s Kiss

Photograph by Beawiharta

For more than eight hours, we navigated the Sekonyer River in a wooden boat, cruising through Tanjung Puting National Park in the Central Kalimantan region of Borneo, Indonesia.

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FirstLook: Dhanji’s Garden

FirstLook: Dhanji’s Garden

Photograph by Zishaan A. Latif

It was the winter of my grandfather Dhanji’s 89th birthday, and we gathered at Mani Villa. We spent the afternoon sunbathing, eating and listening to stories of Dhanji’s impassioned life in the sprawling garden of this beautiful half an acre of property: Mani Villa, home of our beloved grandparents, was a British row house in Jhansi, in north-central India, that was named after my late grandmother, Mani. 

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FirstLook: Golden Hour in Karachi, Pakistan

FirstLook: Golden Hour in Karachi, Pakistan

Photograph by Khaula Jamil
For a long time now, I have felt there is a richer, more complete narrative about Karachi—my hometown—than what is often produced in news media.
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FirstLook: A Lens and a Legacy

FirstLook: A Lens and a Legacy

Photograph by Shaikh Amin
Written by Arthur P. Clark
As a young man in 1948, Shaikh Amin traveled from newly established Pakistan to accept a job in the storehouse of Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He had put away part of his salary, and within a few years of joining the oil company, he saved enough money to buy a Rolleicord twin-lens reflex camera. He enrolled in a photography course by correspondence from the US and began to pick up freelance jobs, and in 1965 he qualified for a trainee post with the company’s Photo Unit.
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FirstLook: Mi Leu, Ma Villo, Provençal (My Eyes, My Town, in Provence)

FirstLook: Mi Leu, Ma Villo, Provençal (My Eyes, My Town, in Provence)

Photographs by Rebecca Marshall
One day I encountered a photo of a man looking through a car window as sunlight reflected his view of the nearby cityscape. Soon afterward, I began this portrait series, of which four images are shown here, in my hometown of Vence, near Nice, France.
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FirstLook: The Sari and the Balloon

FirstLook: The Sari and the Balloon

Photograph by Fatima-Tuj-Johora

On a winter’s afternoon in 2018 in Bogura, Bangladesh, I went out for a walk with my nephew. While walking, I saw a group of toddlers playing with colorful balloons and across from them boys playing cricket. I was struck to see a bright yellow sari hanging to dry in the sun, which really drew me into to the scene.

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FirstLook: The Sphinx Imagined

FirstLook: The Sphinx Imagined

Postcard collection by Jonathan Friedlander
Two summers ago I was browsing several hundred vintage postcards contained in narrow boxes all piled up in a Stillwater, Minnesota, antiques store...I came across several postcards that each featured an imagined sphinx as seen in natural rock formations.
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FirstLook: My Grandmother’s Tlaba

FirstLook: My Grandmother’s Tlaba

Photograph by Nada Harib
In my hometown of Yefren, about 200 kilometers southwest of Tripoli, Libya, in the Nafusa mountains, my cousin Mira wears our grandmother’s tlaba (wool garment) to connect to her family roots. The photo is part of a documentary project I started to depict Amazigh women from Libya.
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FirstLook: Ahmet Dadali's Rodeo 7 Double Mute Grab

FirstLook: Ahmet Dadali's Rodeo 7 Double Mute Grab

Photograph by Pally Learmond
For this shot I did a simple rodeo 7, which is two horizontal spins, and added a little extra spice by throwing in a double mute grab, which is holding one ski with both hands. It was a super high-speed jump, which I needed to make the 25 meters to the landing. I was lucky to land it first hit.
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