After more than two peripatetic decades of assignments in the Balkans, Lebanon, Palestine, and Afghanistan, among many other places of conflict, photographer Paolo Pellegrin is still out there.

Five landmarks in the American Southwest illustrate the limits of engineering the environment to human favor.

One of her reporters disappeared, a machete was lodged in her office door. Then came the death threats. As the top editor at the Maldives Independent, Zaheena Rasheed fought for the truth even as those in power worked against it.

A look at the Somali-American women who have risen to political power in Minnesota.

In the first half of the 20th century, coal communities across the Illinois Basin boomed. In 1990, new regulations set off an industry implosion, and the vitality of the region went with it.

Influxes of African, Asian, and Latino Americans helped Houston's metro area avoid economic stagnation. Could an expected demographic shift on the national level end up reviving other troubled cities?

How nine photographers navigated floods, rubble, and suspicions of espionage to capture some of the most striking images of the last half-century.

Kodak embraced the ideals of the Progressive Era early on, aggressively marketing cameras to women from the outset with the launch of advertisements featuring the Kodak Girl—a pretty, camera-wielding woman—in 1893.

Photos that demonstrate how the social media platform also functions as an artistic space.

Introducing Pacific Standard's July 2017 photo issue.