All Photos © Ryan Pyle

On a 2006 trip, Ryan Pyle decided to focus his camera on the disappearing culture of China’s remote western Xinjiang province. He says, “The culture is vanishing before my eyes. Each time I return something is missing—a market, an old shop full of blacksmiths, a local mosque. This cultural fabric will be lost forever.” Previously named Chinese Turkestan, the Xinjiang province is bordered by the Gobi desert and some of the highest mountain ranges in the world, making this location incredibly remote.

Ryan Pyle is a Canadian born-artist. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 2001 and moved permanently to China in 2002 where he is a contributor, covering China, for the New York Times. In addition to this photographic series, Pyle has created a multimedia piece.

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August Sander, Forester’s Child, Westerwald, 1931. Gelatin silver print, 10-3/16 x 7-1/2 inches. Copyright © SK-Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archiv VG-Bild Kunst, Bonn.  Deborah Bell Photographs

This image, with Deborah Bell Photographs, will be on display at this year’s AIPAD Photography Show New York from March 18th-21st. For more details about the AIPAD show, click here. For more work from August Sander and Deborah Bell Photographs, click here.

© All photographs by Yassine Ouhilal

Yassine Ouhilal captures surfer Cheyne Cottrell riding an icy wave amidst the snow-capped mountains of Norway’s Arctic. This shot was taken around 11 PM due to the high latitude and prevailing midnight sun.

Photographer Yassine Ouhilal, known as “Yazzy,” recently traveled to Norway’s Arctic Circle for a surfing expedition feature with Outside magazine. In Norway, Yazzy was also able to shoot for Eddie Bauer, who sponsored the trip. He produced a documentary while traveling that is posted on YouTube, and which has been seen in 200 countries.

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Song Sparrow, 2007 © Paula McCartney

A bird watcher’s dream comes to life via Paula McCartney’s Bird Watching series in her first solo show in New York. The opening reception for Paula McCartney’s Bird Watching will be Wednesday, March 3, from 6–8pm, the exhibit runs from March 4 to April 23, 2010 at Klompching Gallery, New York. An in-conversaton between Paula McCartney and Darius Himes of Radius Books, followed by a book signing will be held in the gallery on Saturday, March 6th from 1–2pm. Bird Watching is also a newly released book published by Princeton Architectural Press.