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For Alec Soth, Niagara Falls wasn't merely a tourist destination but a place whose cultural identity let him explore the human inability to sustain the intense emotional peaks of new love and passion.

We may differ in race, color, language, wealth, and politics. But look at what we all have in common. If I could photograph these universal truths, I thought that might help us understand. - Wayne Miller

Griffiths comments on a selection of images from his book Viet Nam at Peace, a monumental chronicle of the conditions in post-war Viet Nam with over 500 black and white images.

On April 3, 2002, the Israeli Defense Forces had launched an assault on Jenin refugee camp, home to some 14,000 Palestinians. At least fifty-two Palestinians were killed and more than a quarter of the camp's population were left homeless. Larry Towell photographed the aftermath.

During this historic time in United States history, Paolo Pellegrin photographed Washington, D.C. as the symbolic center of the Nation.

"To persevere as a photographer, you have to keep moving. Exchanging locations, one for the other, the newness of the subject and your arrogance to believe that you can see it differently are the driving forces...My subjects, the hippies, are simply people who have sought a less conforming way to explore this conforming life that we all lead." - Dennis Stock

From Latvia to Brazil, Afghanistan to Leros, Alex Majoli escapes his self. He now escapes photojournalism to focus on "simple people". He erased the context of the photograph. The people are alone on a black background. Majoli lights them up with "the light of God". They are the Heroes.

"Interesting, isn't it, that we ascribe to Steve's contemplative behavior a Buddhist way, but indeed, he is not a practicing Buddhist. Having the mind of someone who is searching for something that he or she doesn't know yet: That's the mind of a beginner. The person who hasn't made up their mind is always willing to change their mind and always willing to allow new things to fill up their mind. That's a mark of his work, I think, and it's why we value it." Anthony Bannon

An introspective photo essay built around the concept of silence - from the societal silence surrounding madness; to that most personal silence, the intense desire to express oneself and unburden the soul.