Beginning in 1980, Merrick Morton set about going to East and South Central Los Angeles—traveling as far as San Diego—to document street gang culture.

Sam Gregg shoots San Juan del Rio grieving context for Sixteen Journal Volume 9.

Thalia Gochez shoots Sandy Avila president of Lady Lowrider Car Club in Pasadena.

Rahim Fortune captures Black American Rodeo in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas for Sixteen Journal Volume 8.

Photographer Carlos Jaramillo finds parallels between his current home city of Los Angeles, and McAllen, Texas, the small border town where he was born.

Ward&Kweskin shoots Apache Skateboards team in Tuba City, AZ during the Western Navajo Nation Fair.

The city is made to get lost in. Some people disappear there by design, seduced by the freedom of anonymity, the chance for reinvention.

Xavier Encinas documents the American South West desert for Sixteen Journal Volume 8.

Sam Gregg documents Dias de los Muertos in Tepito, Mexico for Sixteen Journal Volume 8.

Mark Mahaney shoots New York High School Rodeo Association for Sixteen Journal Volume 8 dedicated to the American West.

At the age of 17, Mike Brodie hopped his first train close to home in Pensacola, Florida, thinking he would visit a friend in Mobile, Alabama.

The series was born after an impromptu nude swimming-pool shoot of husband and artist Ed Templeton, which spurred an eight-year journey in the study of light, expression and the enigma of water.