Those interested in urban spaces (and fake nature) will find a lot of imagery in Mathilde Mestrallet's portfolios. This image is from Avant les forêts.

This is an image from Chris Dorley-Brown's fabulous The Corners.

As far as I can tell Julia Hetta's photographs are all commissioned work. There are many gems here - make sure to look through the whole set!

A good eye for symmetry requires a good eye for asymmetry. Just the right amount of asymmetry, just the right amount of confusion will make any symmetric photography much better: It truly brings a photograph to life. Georg Aerni's Promising Bay is a perfect example.

This is an image from Ulrich Lebeuf's extended portrait Tropique du Cancer, for which, alas, information is hard to come by.

"The museum, an institution to preserve and interpret the material evidence of the human race, has a long history, springing from an innate human desire to collect and interpret the world around us. By deciding how the past is presented and memorialized, museums not only preserve the past, they also play an important role in the construction of our ideologies, identities and the understanding and interpretation of ourselves." - Jason Larkin about Past Perfect

I have the feeling that many people will prefer Filip Dujardin's Fictions over his Sheds. Fictions, of course, is well done. But at the end of the day, you know the constructs are not real. Contrast that with Sheds: Here, it's not the photographer who made them, it's other people - leading occasionally to cases which are as absurd as the Fictions.

China's western parts are very different from its coastal regions where most of the economic boom is happening. There are ethnic (and religious) minorities, which has led to considerable tensions (and violence) - with Beijng reacting to it as can be expected: A growing military presence. Chloe Dewe Mathews portrays that part of China in China's Wild West.

Forever Beautiful by Evgenia Arbugaeva looks into beauty and aging (and our ideas of beauty and age).

Playground by Jeroen Hofman shows training grounds used by Dutch emergency personnel.

Colin Gray's Nina Goes Shopping shows the photographer's daughter shopping for stuff - a great take on consumerism.

This is an image from Salvi Danés' impressive and haunting Dark Isolation Tokyo.

Fil­ippo Bran­coli Pan­tera's Tuscany's B side shows scenes from the region that are very different from the ones known from tourist brochures. (via)

Peter Hebeisen's Metamorphosis and Myth shows the locations of major battles in Europe during the 20th Century (Verdun, Stalingrad, Sarajevo, etc.). The photographer writes that "the haunting landscapes reveal how healing is linked is linked with forgetting and ignorance."

Good Night London by Jesús Madriñán contains some great portraiture.