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    1.Terra: Brazil's Landless Movement
     Sebastiao Salgado's essay on the life, times and political mobilization of Brazil's landless peasants. [Free registration at New York Times]
    www.nytimes.com
    2.Fast Forward
     By Lauren Greenfield. VII photographer's penetrating look at youths growing up on both sides of the tracks in the shadow of Hollywood - also a book.
    zonezero.com
    3.East Side Stories
     Black and white photographs of Latino gang members in East Los Angeles by Joseph Rodriguez.
    zonezero.com
    4.Arrested Images
     Street photography of Tokyo, Japan by Canadian photographer Drew Cunningham.
    www.arrestedimages.com
    5.Schifanoia
     By K.N. Chaudhuri, historian, writer, and artist who specialises in historical sites and presents through photo-texts and images a distinctive interpretation of landscape.
    colophon.com
    6.The Other Life
     5 images of Korean people and lifestyles by Park Chang Dai in black and white.
    user.chollian.net
    7.Berlin Mitte: Explorations of an Urban Conversion
     Photography by Ulrich Wuest looking at the transformation of East Berlin after the fall of communism
    uinic.de
    8.The Pigeon Train
     2 photo essays in Korean and English: the Pigeon Train, and soldiers on the northern frontier of South Korea (untitled). By Lee Jin Hong.
    members.tripod.com
    9.Love, Light, Life
     3 images and a theme by Bernard Mendoza.
    www.mendozaphotography.com
    10.Behind The Stonewall
     5 essays on US Civil War battlefields Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Manassas, Gettysburg and Chickamauga.
    www.jatruck.com
    11.Carpet People of India
     Sponsored by the STEP Foundation Switzerland, which works for fair conditions in carpet trade. By Adrian Moser.
    www.geocities.com
    12.Saturday Night
     By Deborah Wian Whitehouse documenting the 'Saturday Night' experience across America. Selections from the series are in private and public collections.
    www.artshow.com
    13.American Families: Beyond the White Picket Fence
     By Courteney Coolidge, exploring the lives of ten families across the United States at the dawn of the new millennium.
    www.10families.com
    14.Vietnam Postcards
     Vietnamese culture and lifestyle by Filipino photographer Claro Cortes.
    www.angelfire.com
    15.Chanukah in Prague
     Roma children in Eastern Europe, Jewish Holocaust survivors, Iran and Rio de Janeiro photo essays by Ben Eden.
    www.beneden.com
    16.A Mendel Photo Essay
     Photographs of places associated with the life of Gregor Mendel (born 1822), Abbot of the Augustinian convent in Brno. By Simon Mawer.
    www.simonmawer.com
    17.Full Frame Images
     W decisive moment/documentary photographs of life in Worcester, Massachusetts (1969-1981). Included are images from various locations in the US. By Robert M Johnson.
    www.fullframeimages.com
    18.Photos of Taiwan in the 1950s
     By Frederick Foley, who taught English and traveled around the island with his camera.
    www.usfca.edu
    19.Mexican Community in New York City
     Photographer Mary Teresa Giancoli documents the rituals, festivals and foods of the Mexican community in New York City.
    www.biddingtons.com
    20.Shore Thing
     Images of the New Jersey Boardwalk 1975-85 by Mike Morizio.
    members.aol.com
    21.Lake Street, USA
     Six miles of photography by Wing Young Huie, shown on store fronts, bus-stops and as murals along Lake Street, Minneapolis.
    lakestreetusa.walkerart.org
    22.Israeli Documentary Photography
     Traces the zealot religious groups that populate the Israeli landscape. By Ittai Bar-Joseph.
    www.mousymedia.com
    23.Ashfactories
     Fire as a cleansing agent and as society's post-industrial solution to the problem of death. By Juraj Lipscher.
    webexhibits.org
    24.Shattered 9/12/2001
     Photographs of the WTC attack aftermath by award-winning photojournalist James Nachtwey.
    www.time.com
    25.Urban Anthropology
     Contemporary urban environments in St. Louis, Missouri and Asbury Park, New Jersey. Pinhole camera images by Lisa A. Johnston.
    www.aeternus.com
    26.Holding Ground under Water
     On China's Three Gorges Dam and its effects on the environment and people of the Yangtze River Basin. By Ben Sandler.
    www.holdingground.com
    27.Farwell to Bosnia
     By Gilles Peress, a member of Magnum Photos. Monochrome images taken over a 4-month period in 1993, now a book as well as a traveling exhibition.
    www.pictureprojects.com
    28.Social Landscape
     Critical interpretation of contemporary U.S. society and culture. By Gerald John Davey in both monochrome and colour.
    www.social-landscape-photo.com
    29.China's Yangtze
     A strong series of images shot below the submersion levels of China's future Yangtze reservoir. By Bill Zorn.
    www.billzorn.com
    30.Country Doctor
     The famous photographic essay of W. Eugene Smith considered one of the finest photojournalist of the 20th century.
    www.life.com
    31.Grafted Tokyo
     A few days through Tokyo: people and encounters, sounds and fragrances. Street photography by unknown photographer.
    www.grafted.net
    32.Absent Reality
     Alejandro Jaimes-Larrarte's experience with WTC before the tragedy and the events in NY after the tragedy (not photographs of the event itself).
    www.jaimes-larrarte.com
    33.Tibetans
     An exhibition on Tibet by John Trewin.
    members.ozemail.com.au
    34.Construction of the Gotthard tunnel, Switzerland
     Panoramic reportage of the Gotthard tunnel building sites in Zurich and Sedrun (Switzerland). By Mark-Steffen Göwecke.
    www.raumzeitfilter.de
    35.American Pictures
     By Jacob Holdt, who hitchhiked more than 100,000 miles throughout the USA in 5 years. A multi-media show since 1976, it has been a focus for the international media as well as human rights and anti-apartheid groups.
    www.american-pictures.com
    36.American Skin
     Nation united under a freak flag issue: American strippers, 19-year-olds' world of sex for sale, Alabama drag queens, motel life and a personal journal by Tyler Ondine Whitman.
    www.theamericanskin.com
    37.Apriori: Carol Polakoff
     A 1976 photo journey across Russia and a 1996 retrospective.
    www.gyoza.com
    38.Artdotnet, A Web-Art Project
      by Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, in French and English. [Requires Shockwave]
    www.artdotnet.com
    39.Gary Walts: Photographs of my Father
     A photo story documenting the years leading up to his father's suicide. [Requires Shockwave]
    www.sightphoto.com
    40.Hope Revisited
     Ten years ago, Hope, a small Kansas country town was struggling to preserve its way of life. A look back since then. Story by Nancy Mays, photos by Keith Mays.
    sightphoto.com
    41.The Lost Border, Photographs of the Iron Curtain
     By Brian Rose, documenting the landscape of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall in 1985; the dismantling of the Wall at the end of 1989; and the subsequent changes in the border zone, particularly at Potsdamer Platz.
    www.brianrose.com
    42.The New Americans
     Exploring Watsonville, (strawberry capital of the world, one of dozens of migrant Meccas in California) from the migrant perspective. Story by Ruben Martinez, photography by Joseph Rodriguez.
    zonezero.com
    43.PhotogJoe's
     Non-fiction about urban life and international travel by a professional photographer cum community activist.
    joemjoe.com
    44.Soundings
     n of the meaning of music through stories about musicians in the State of Missouri since 1997. By Ingrid Young.
    sightphoto.com
    45.Children of Eastern Europe
     Of children living in orphanages and psychiatric hospitals in Russia and Moldova, and who have gone underground in Bucharest, Romania. By Northstar Gallery.
    northstargallery.com
    46.Modern Ruins
     Discover the roots of our place in history, through an archaeology of our culture. By Shaun O'Boyle.
    oboylephoto.com
    47.Leros
     Alex Majoli's disturbing account of the gradual improvements in Greece's most notorious mental asylum.
    www.cestino.it
    48.Truth and Reconciliation
     Jillian Edelstein's medium format pictures from several years of South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
    www.red-top.com
    49.Still Training
     Seamus Murphy's award-winning story on war torn Sierra Leone's Olympic hopefuls.
    www.reportage.org
    50.Side-ways
     This photo-site of Beer Clement contains snaphots from travels by car through Europe, all taken through the car window
    home-1.tiscali.nl
    51.Afghanistan
     Chris Steele Perkins's pictures from Afganistan in the 1990s, also published as a book and touring exhibition.
    www.kiad.ac.uk
    52.Soccer in Liberia by Tim Hetherington
     Tim Hetherington looks at soccer in a Liberia recovering from civil war.
    www.foto8.com
    53.Inferno
     James Nachtwey's disturbing images of war in the 90s from Chechnya to Rwanda.
    www.salon.com
    54.Prostitutes of La Merced
     Maya Goded's medium format work on Mexican prostitutes.
    www.smithfund.org
    55.Soviets - Shepard Sherbell
     Major project on the end of the Soviet era, from religion to work to punishment
    www.sovietsbook.com
    56.Athos
     Photography by Zbigniew Kosc of monasteries and monks of Mount Athos, Greece.
    home-l2.tiscali.nl
    57.Spotfire Images: Photojournal of Fighting Wildfire
     Photo-essays of wildland firefighting, including smokejumping and hot shot crews. By Alaska Smokejumper and photographer Mike McMillan.
    www.spotfireimages.com
    58.Dangerous Sports Club
     The 1980s was a time when eccentric upper class Brits braved the ski slopes in grand pianos. Dafydd Jones was on hand to capture it for Tatler.
    www.dafjones.com
    59.Brothers in Arms
     Elena de la Vega looks at FARC guerrillas favourite passtime: soccer.
    www.footballissimo.com
    60.Last Call: Faces of Alcoholism
     A portrait of alcoholism by photographer Mark Peterson, featuring residents of the Queens nursing home in Minneapolis. [requires Shockwave]
    www.time.com
    61.Havana Mia
     Black and white photo essay presenting Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte's personal perspective on Havana, Cuba.
    www.time.com
    62.Scott Carrier: From Afghanistan
      (April 2002).
    www.hearingvoices.com
    63.The Holy Week in Sicily
     . Photography by Maurizio Distefano, narration in English and Italian.
    utenti.lycos.it
    64.Evaporated Milk
     A photo essay and story with over thirty photos about the declining number of family dairy farmers in Northern New England.
    www.photojournalistas.com
    65.Post-Card
     This site uses the postcard as a vehicle to transmit images that would never appear on real postcards. These photo essays present cities as experienced by someone who acknowledges her/himself as a partial observer.
    www.post-cards.org
    66.Cuba: Tomorrow in Question
     E. Wright Ledbetter investigates and interprets contemporary Cuban culture.
    www.ewrightledbetter.com
    67.FotoFestival Naarden
     Photo essay about a photo festival in Holland.
    www.efn.org
    68.The Photo Documentary Press
     Black and white photo essays and documentary work with passion. Specializing in editorial assignments, portraits, weddings, and fine art books.
    photodocumentarypress.com
    69.Waiting for my angel
     A project in photo's and text about youth culture in The Netherlands in the year 2000.
    home.hetnet.nl
    70.The Silent Harvest
     A documentary photography project about the disappearance of the family farm in the Central Valley of California.
    www.agtraditions.com
    71.9-11 Images
     Photographic journey through the aftermath of 9-11, the heroes, the missing and the mourning, in memory of those who died.
    www.9-11images.com
    72.Typical Litter
     An ongoing photo essay on the pervasiveness and beauty of trash.
    www.typical-litter.com
    73.Around the World in a Viewfinder
     A selection of photo essays by Jean-Philippe Soule to present various Native Cultures.
    www.jpsviewfinder.com
    74.Sands Hotel
     Pictures and photo essay of the last day the historic Las Vegas Sands Hotel and Casino.
    www.socala.com
    75.Faces of Iran
      is a photo essay on today's Iran by the Documentary photographer Bikem Ekberzade.
    www.geocities.com
    76.Indochine
     Photographs from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and thailand by the documentary photographer Bikem Ekberzade.
    www.geocities.com
    77.Stories from the Old South
     A collection of photographs from the three southern states, by documentary photographer Bikem Ekberzade.
    www.geocities.com
    78.Slices of America
     Taylor Lasseigne's album of photos from around the U.S. and Canada.
    www.slicesofamerica.com
    79.Iceledo
     This site contains photos of a small area of the Arkansas Ozarks called Iceledo. These are seasonal photos of streams and woodlands taken during the late 1970's by Willie Weeks.
    www.angelfire.com
    80.New York City Lightning
     20 year photo essay of lightning flashes striking Empire State Building, United Nations, 59th Street Bridge and other Manhattan landmarks by Greg Geffner.
    www.pippareist.com
    81.Women They Left Behind
     A photo essay on women survivors of the Vietnam War, these are mothers, wives, daughters and sister of those killed in the Vietnam War.
    www.handheldmagazine.com
    82.Kims gallery
     Photographs of people in Seoul, Korea. Includes small story, gallery and Leica M story.
    www.lok21.x-y.net
    83.Outta Sight
     A collection of scenic photos of the Southern California area in color or black and white.
    www.outtasightphoto.com
    84.AfghanPix.com
     Detailed photo essay covering the civil war and the daily life of Afghans, by Alexander Merkushev.
    www.afghanpix.com
    85.The Lord of the Flies
     An examination of violence amongst former child combatants in Africa by Stuart Freedman.
    www.red-top.com
    86.Streets of Osaka 1996-97
     A personal view of the street life in this city.
    www.subjectivite.net
    87.Hutong Photography
     A portfolio of photographs of Beijing's hutongs by the photographer Iain Masterton
    www.hutongphotography.com
    88.New York Changing
     Berenice Abbott's Changing New York project with the identical camera, at the same time of day and year, showing the city's evolution over 65 years.
    www.nychanging.com
    89.End of an Era
     Images of Hick Hargreaves and Company, Bolton, England, over 170 years, and a brief history of the company.
    www.geocities.com
    90.The Adventure Continues
     Photographic compilation and diary journal of the 2001 re-creation of the historic London to Sydney Air Race.
    www.adventurecontinues.com
    91.Navajo Art
     Navajo indian culture and history in pictures. Earl Waggoner lived on the Navajo Indian Reservations in the 1950s and recordered the culture of the Nation among dramatic panoramic views of the Southwest.
    artsales.com
    92.World War II - The Photos Tell
     Images from World War II's Holocaust and the history behind several well-known images. By Louis Bülow.
    www.auschwitz.dk
    93.Akbar Nazemi
     Purchasing information for photos and images of Iran Revolution.
    www.iranrevolution.com
    94.40 Weeks Photography
     Documents pregnancy, birth, babies, families and all things precious by Valerie and Jenifer.
    www.40weeksphotography.com
    95.Samuel's Spina Bifida Surgery In Utero
     Miraculous photograph of a twenty-one week old fetus reaching out of his mother's womb to grasp the hand of his surgeon.
    www.michaelclancy.com
    96.Town Meeting: Democracy By The People
     In-depth story, accompanied by over twenty photos, about the town meeting form of government.
    www.photojournalistas.com
    97.Clergy Girls
     Carolyn Coles photos of life at 25 Clergy Street West.
    www.imagestation.com
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