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With a rich history stretching back over a millennium, Cairo has become one of the densest urban centers in the world and the largest metropolitan area in Africa. In this podcast, photographer Jason Larkin highlights new construction in Cairo's desert outskirts. These satellite cities and private gated communities aim to provide exclusive isolation for the city's elite while over 40% of Egyptians live on less than two dollars per day.

Jason Larkin: Cairo Divided

In his series Rooftop, Brad Temkin documents the growing trend of green roofs and rooftop gardens all over the world. These large-format elevated landscapes serve as important markers of the cultural shift towards sustainable design. In addition to commentary by the artist, this podcast features an interview with Katherine Ware, Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art, and musical accompaniment by the Grateful Dead.

Brad Temkin: Rooftop

In offSET Lacey Terrell turns her camera away from the action on the film sets she is documenting towards the spaces where the artifice of movie making and the real intermingle. Lacey explores the subliminal spaces between and behind the scenes to find her own mysteriousslivers of narrative that highlight the overlooked, the unexpected, and the poetic. Music by Thievery Corporation.

Lacey Terrell : offSET

Jon Edwards photographs the simplicity and beauty of those living in agrarian life by focusing on the places they inhabit and the relationships they build within their communities. Daylight is proud to present photographs from Edwards' project 'A Life' of John Ryan whose quiet labor has afforded him an admirable, elegant and at times, trying co-existance with his surroundings and place in time.

Jon Edwards: A Life

Featuring narration by Alejandro Cartagena along with a selection of work from the just-released monograph Suburbia Mexicana. 108 pages 36 color photographs Introduction by Karen Irvine Essay by Gerardo Montiel Klint Interview by Lisa Uddin Cartagena captures both the destruction that rapid urbanization has imposed on the landscape and the phenomenon of densely packed housing. He takes pictures of dried-up river beds that attest to the water misallocation and depletion brought about by the construction, and he depicts perpetual rows of tiny houses slicing directly into the foothills of the picturesque mountains that surround Monterrey. Only the landscape appears capable...

Alejandro Cartagena: Suburbia Mexicana teaser

Featuring commentary by Andrei Codrescu and Bruce Haley, this multimedia teaser provides a sampling of work from the just-released monograph Sunder. Produced between 1994 and 2002, the images in SUNDER sweep the viewer along on a far-reaching journey through numerous former USSR and Iron Curtain countries, stopping at landscapes of ruin and moments of grace in equal measure. Haley's explorations were intuitive, responding to a deep curiosity to taste the last drops of the would-be Utopian ideology that dominated global politics during the first thirty years of his life. Using black and white film, the notion of remnants and transition...

Bruce Haley - Sunder teaser

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