If your house was burning, what would you take with you?

Marked is a chilling photo series by Claire Felicie of black and white triptychs of marines before, during and after their tour of duty to Afghanistan.

SPEED Annual Art Edition 003 by Lodown Magazine, launch event tonight at Motto Berlin.

Berlin’s interview magazine mono.kultur has recently launched its online store where you can get hands on back issues, artist collaborations and some nice clothing. If you haven’t heard from them so far, the boxed set is the way to go.

Curt Cobain’s daughter Frances photographed by Hedi Slimane.

The seemingly innocent copse of Robinia, a patch of waste landscape colonised by nature right in the heart of Berlin, has born the brunt of history and been neglected by it in turn. Between 1933 and 1945, it was the heart of the Third Reich and home to the headquarters of the Gestapo and SS. After the war, the area was erradicated and gradually turned into a piece of abandoned wasteland, and from 1961 the Berlin Wall ran along the northern edge of the then levelled terrain. In 1987, the site was landscaped and opened to the public.

With his book Topographie, Berlin based photographer Andreas Gehrke signifies the atrocities that were directed from this very place nearly eighty years ago.

Reuters photographer Lucas Jackson was invited to the 2011 Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station, a temporary camp built out of plywood on Arctic sea ice. Far north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, the camp housed a couple dozen members of the British, Canadian, and U.S. navies and employees of the Applied Physics Laboratory.

Jackson spent two days at the camp, watching its residents conduct tests on underwater and under-ice communications and sonar technologies.

By Mark Tipple.

When Jonathan Harris turned 30, he began a simple ritual of taking one photo a day and posting it to his website before going to sleep, along with a short story. This is a short film about Jonathan’s project “Today”, made a few weeks after he stopped it after 440 days, by his friend, Scott Thrift. Via

These are Frank Hurley’s famous early colour photographs of the ill-fated Endurance voyage, as part of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917. Hurley was the official photographer on the expedition.

Early in 1915, their ship Endurance became trapped in the Antarctic ice. Hurley managed to salvage the photographic plates by diving into ice-water inside the sinking ship in October 1915.

Jodi Bieber from South Africa took this photograph of Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old woman from Oruzgan province in Afghanistan who fled back to her family home from her husband’s house, complaining of violent treatment. The Taliban arrived one night, demanding Bibi be handed over to face justice. Bibi’s brother-in-law held her down and her husband sliced off her ears and then cut off her nose. Bibi was abandoned, but later rescued by aid workers. After time in a women’s refuge in Kabul, she was taken to America, where she received counseling and reconstructive surgery. She now lives in the United States.

A New York Times’ photoset celebrating the 106th anniversary of the New York City Subway spanning all the way back to 1916.

A photo exhibition at Civilist. Saturday, October 9, 7 pm.

By Henrik Adamsen for Forrest & Bob.

By Philip Bloom. Via

An outstanding photoblog documenting life at the trails, photograped by James Brooks. Via

The lineup for It’s Nice That Issue #4 includes interviews with Nick Knight, Neville Brody, Miranda July, Trokia, RBG6, Noma Bar and Bompas & Parr, features by Sara De Bondt, Adam Buxton, Adrian Shaughnessy, Jez Burrows, Mike Lemanski, Peter Nencini and Micah Lidberg as well as work from the likes of Michael Landy, Rui Teneiro, Peter Grundy and more.

Every order placed before September 30th will receive a free screenprint by James Jarvis, commissioned especially for the issue.

Nude Paper No. 2 release party in Berlin.

More on photographer Mickey Smith.

Great photostream on flickr by Elmo Tide. Via

The vast amount of photo galleries on Square America are themed into a particular topic – people reading, vintage costumes, people smoking, etc. So many sets with so many great images – so hard to know where to start.

Outstanding photoset by Laurent Nivalle of this years’s Le Mans Classic.

SHOOT, Saturday, July 17, 7 pm at Civilist Berlin

Featuring Stephen Shore, Nan Goldin, Walter Pfeiffer, Boris Mikhailov, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jürgen Teller, Mark Borthwick, Ari Marcopoulos, Hiromix, Glynnis McDaris, Linus Bill, Jason Nocito, Yurie Nagashima, Tim Barber, Peter Sutherland, JH Engström, Dash Snow, Kenneth Cappello, Louise Enhörning, Nacho Alegre, Michael Schmelling, Ola Rindal, Paul Schiek, Madi Ju, Jaimie Warren and Thomas Jeppe.

The Bicycle Portraits project was initiated by Stan Engelbrecht (Cape Town, South Africa) and Nic Grobler (Johannesburg, South Africa) early in 2010. Whenever they can, they’re on the lookout for people who use bicycles as part of their everyday work, to meet and photograph. Being avid cyclists themselves, this project is as much an investigation into South African bicycle culture as it is an excuse for them to ride their bikes and take photographs. Via

By Andre Merilo. See also Part 2. Via

Sigmar Polke, * February 13, 1941, † June 11, 2010.

Pictures from day 51 after the explosion.

Noshe at Open Studio.

The Red Shirt political protest in Bangkok, Thailand has entered a new, deadly phase in the past week, with at least 36 of the total 60 deaths occurring in just the last few days. Anti-government protesters have barricaded themselves against government troops and the Thai army has declared certain protest areas to be ‘Live Fire Zones’. A state of emergency is in effect, covering 17 provinces in the country, as protesters have refused orders to leave.

Last Friday, April 30th, was the 35th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War, and last Tuesday, May 4th, was the 40th anniversary of the shooting of protesting students at Kent State University.

Deus, a custom motorcycle company out of Camperdown Sydney in Australia are also known for their swapmeets for vintage bike-, motorcycle- and surfparts. And they got a special vintage BMX swapmeet coming up this weekend on May 1st. Via

Say Hello to Mr. Eyjafjallajökull from Iceland – the guy who pulled the plug on Germany’s and Northern Europe’s air traffic.

I like the Google Maps implementation in this.

Collected here are images of the country and conflict over the past month.

Four years ago, Dr. Lou Robbins found a mug shot and started collecting original images from the dark side of the food world. He found bartenders, cooks, and waiters who had been pushed over the edge and were accused of murder, theft, pimping and pandering, and drunken and disorderly conduct.

Now he presents his collection for the first time to the public in his show “Food Industry Mug Shots 1899-1954”, which opens Friday at Rabelais Books in Portland, Maine. Via

The high-profile line-up for issue #3 includes seven interviews of Milton Glaser, Sir Paul Smith, Tom Dixon, Keith Schofield, Tom Gauld and Maisie Broadhead. Further articles include Geoff McFetridge, Ken Garland, Johan Lofgren, Keetra Dean Dixon, Dan Germain and Michael Marriott.

The publication also acts as an archive for the most interesting work posted on itsnicethat.com from the last six months. All pre-orders received before midnight on March 31st will receive an exclusive, large-scale screen print from illustrator Parra.

You can pre-oder now at the It’s Nice That Shop for £10.

A movie about the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky.

In southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, thousands of American, Afghan and British troops entered Marja in the biggest offensive of the war, with the goal of destroying the Taliban’s largest haven.