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.

In the early 1980s, Barbara Crane embarked on a series of photographs shot during Chicago's various summer festivals.

In the Summers, I go home to the place I grew calluses on my knees from praying – I document my place as a way to see it again and re-tell it.

James Brodribb photographs Hip-Hop's underground new generational talents 

Rahim Fortune photographs Blues rising star Christone "Kingfish" Ingram in his hometown of Mississippi.

Al Pereira captures the golden era of Hip-hop.

The Japanese photographer has reached great acclaim for his urban shots of people across the globe. But his New York photos in particular – the gritty and allusive – have profound and lasting impact.

While visiting New York on a commission in 1969, the Japanese photographer was invited to an orgy at the studio of Yayoi Kusama – “I had no choice but to shoot!”

Caleb Stein’s monochrome collection of portraits is an “ode” to the small town of Poughkeepsie, that finds its resolution in the edenic summer atmosphere of the local swimming spot.

An exploration of gritty America by the American photographer for Sixteen Journal Volume 4.

Anthony Blasko shoots Delta community story down in the US deep south.

How far can one travel in a single pair of shoes? What lands might one cover and what kind of terrain? Soft grasses and pebbly gravel that cut divots into one’s soles?