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.

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

Chieska Fortune Smith documents women during their pregnancies for Sixteen Journal Volume 7 on Womanhood.

Portraits taken the first week of March 2022 in Liverpool Street Station, London, UK.

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.

Photography by Ben Toms
Styling by Victoire Simonney

Jeano Edwards captures black womanhood in Jamaica for Sixteen Volume 7.