© Katrina Tang

Katrina Tang provides a glimpse into a fashion fairy tale of children who escape into a dreamlike, alternative world. More images from Tang’s “Follow The Ribbon Story” series can be seen in the The Look 2010 online gallery.

© Urszula Tarasiewicz

Urszula Tarasiewicz documented a group of impoverished, but imaginative, children living in Warsaw’s Praga district as they posed in scenes from stories of their own creation.

More images from Tarasiewicz’s series “New Urban Legends” can be seen in the The Curator online gallery.

© Rineke Dijkstra. Almerisa, Leiden, Netherlands, 1994. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Ellen Kern, 2008.

Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography is an exhibition that has just opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gallery features several artists’ minimal and conceptual photographic works from the 60’s and 70’s as well as photographers such as Erin Shirreff, Doug Aitken, Rineke Dijkstra and others…The work is on view at the Met July 2, 2010 through February 13, 2011.

All photos © Ross Mantle.

Open swim, Camp Hill, Pa.

Yvonne Finney makes her way across the Camp Hill pool after finding her granddaughter Madison, 8 (left).  Finney has been going to the pool for over 40 years.  “My son grew up here,” she said.

Ross Mantle is a freelance photographer working in Brooklyn, NY and Pittsburgh PA. To see more of his work go here.

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