All Photos © Carsten Peter/National Geographic. Above: The lava at Nyiragongo is made of an alkali-rich volcanic rock; its unusual composition may be a factor in the lava’s fluidity.

Photographer Carsten Peter descended into the fiery center of Nyiragongo—an active volcano towering over a city of one million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—for the April issue of National Geographic magazine.  See Carsten and his team explore the depths of Nyiragongo in Man vs. Volcano on the National Geographic channel. To see more of Carsten Peter’s work click here.

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© Jussi Grznar. Above: Pemberton backcountry in British Columbia, Canada.

Jussi Grznar captured this moment in the middle of Pemberton backcountry after a 40-mile snowmobile ride with Andrew Burns and the rest of the crew. This was Andrew’s first descent on this glacier. As he jumped off the 50ft drop the avalanche caught up with him. Even though completely blinded with snow Andrew rode away safely at the bottom. To see more of Grznar’s work click here.

All Photos © Jacqueline Di Milia.

Based in New York, and more recently, California, editorial and fine art photographer, Jacqueline Di Milia, is currently working on this personal body of  work about transcendence in the landscape. Each photograph is made in camera (on film) by building layers of natural imagery to create these landscapes. The final product can sometimes leave uncertainty about which fragments are real, though other images in the series take on a more collage-like approach to the landscape. The work stems from Di Milia’s interest in modern science and the surreal forces of nature.

To see more of Di Milia’s work click here.

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© Kahn and Selesnick.

Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Kahn have been collaborating as Kahn/Selesnick since 1988 on a series of complex narrative photo-novellas and sculptural installations. Their work has evolved into a series of projects involving fictional attributions, narratives, and sculpture. This staged photography features 360 degree panoramas that create a cinematic sense of place and alter the sense of time through their placement of costumes, props, and choice of color.

The two artists met at the Washington University in St. Louis where both studied photography. Kahn currently resides in Manhattan while Selesnick lives in Brooklyn. Both are now represented by Bernstein and Andriulli.  To see more of their work click here.

© Max Forsythe.

London based photographer Max Forsyth has traveled throughout Ireland, Morocco, Africa and the Caribbean shooting personal work based on his attraction to color photography. He published a book called Colour Prejudice highlighting images that could not work without color. His work was widely exhibited throughout London at Hamilton’s Gallery, Lupe Gallery and the Association of Photographers Gallery. It is also in the collections of the Royal Photographic Society and the National Museum of Photography.

In 2006 Forsyth joined forces with a small group of photographers to form a high quality image library and gallery called Lensmodern. To see more of Forsyth’s work, click here.