A captive female Tawny Eagle, photographed at the Lakeland Bird of Prey Centre in Cumbria, U.K. Photo by Tommy Martin.

Photograph by Steve Bloom, from his book Living Africa (Thames & Hudson, 2008)

“The Bozo people are highly skilled fishermen. They stand on the end of long narrow pirogues to cast their nets onto the waters of the Niger River. I took this photograph for my book, Living Africa, which is an homage to the continent of my birth. I wanted to capture a variety of lifestyles, from the remote tribal to the urban, and fishermen had an important place in the book’s narrative. The river’s current was strong, so lining my boat up with the fisherman’s boat, as well as the rising sun; and then capturing the moment when he threw his net required considerable luck and timing. The fishermen spend many months away from their families, camping in straw huts, as they follow the fish that migrate along the river.” —Steve Bloom

Photo of beef on beef by Cormac Hanley. This and other Hanley photos are with the Bear & Breakfast Gallery in Biarritz, France. Hanley is represented by Gunda Patzke and is represented for advertising work by Barbara Soulié in Paris.

Duncan Family Portrait, Tennessee 2008, photographed by Lucas Foglia from his Re-Wilding project. [Re-wilding: the process of creating a lifestyle that is independent of the domestication of civilization.]

“I grew up with my extended family on a farm in suburban Long Island. Influenced by the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960’s, my parents maintained an agricultural lifestyle as malls and supermarkets developed around us. We heated with wood, grew and canned our food and bartered plants for everything from shoes to dentistry.

Through a family friend, I was introduced to a network of people in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia who have responded to environmental concerns and predictions of societal collapse by moving to the wilderness. Most of my subjects live off-the-grid, build their homes from local materials, obtain their water from nearby streams and hunt, gather or grow their own food. I am intrigued by their desire for self-sufficiency and by the complexity of their relationship with the natural world.”

—Lucas Foglia

The woman at the center of this picture is holding a photo of herself on her wedding day.

Photo by Brent Lewin from his “Urban Jungle” project. Lewin documented families of squatters and their domesticated elephants living in a suburb of Bangkok, Thailand. Many of the elephants use the abandoned structures as a jungle gym, clambering in and out of the many rooms, some even climbing the stairs to the second floor. See more of the project on Lewin’s web site.