Photography

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Cement Sky by Marla Rutherford

A fetish for motels

Rob Walker|Essays

An Album-Packaging Feast

A delicious viral tribute to a gut-bomb ZZ Top album-packaging image from the vinyl era

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Wintery Forest by Yang Yongliang

Building the new China

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Guts of the Beast by Marcus Nilsson

How to take a food picture

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Woman Mourning by Don McCullin

What are images of suffering for?

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Identities Revealed

The Found I.D. Photos of Gulu Real Art Studio

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Cabaret de l'Enfer by Harry C. Ellis

The ghoulish cavern in the villa of Ormen

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Chimpanzee by James Mollison

Looking into the face of an ape

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Operating Room by Augustine H. Folsom

Early surgery as public theater

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Nathan Pearce

A yearning for place

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Francis Bacon by Bill Brandt

Portrait of the artist or photographer?

Rick Poynor|Books

The Observer Decameron—Eighth Day

The top ten books of 2015 picked by our contributors