JUL 2017
Objects That Matter: The Disposable Camera
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.
How Three Photographers Use Instagram to Share and Inform Their Work
Photos that demonstrate how the social media platform also functions as an artistic space.
Documenting the Anguish of War: An Interview With Photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin
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.
When the Desert Pushes Back Against Human Engineering
Five landmarks in the American Southwest illustrate the limits of engineering the environment to human favor.
Editor in Exile
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.
The Empowered Women of Little Mogadishu
A look at the Somali-American women who have risen to political power in Minnesota.
A Look Inside the Coal Communities in the Illinois Basin
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.
A View of the World Framed by Another: A Letter From the Creative Director
Introducing Pacific Standard's July 2017 photo issue.
Houston's Diversity Is America's Future
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?
The Stories Behind Some of the World's Most Iconic Photographs
How nine photographers navigated floods, rubble, and suspicions of espionage to capture some of the most striking images of the last half-century.