Laura Plageman's Response involves working with the physicality of printed photographs - a simple, yet intriguing idea.

Photograms usually leave me cold. The ones by Meghann Junell Riepenhoff (this one from Instar), however, are spectacular. (via Hippolyte Bayard)

I'll Die For You is a project by Laura El-Tantawy about the many thousands of Indian farmers who committed suicide over the past decade.

I have a bit of a weakness for photographic depictions of messy places - such as those in Gustavo Sanabria's Talat Noi.

This is an image from Youngsuk Suh's Wildfires - a series of landscapes with the fires only present in the form of a diffuse smoke.

This is one of the great portraits from Graham Miller's Waiting for the Miracle. Also don't miss Suburban Splendour, which I like just as much.

Kirk Crippens' The Great Recession comes in three parts: Foreclosure, USA, Dealership Wreck, and Chopping Block. There's a great photobook to be produced right there!

"The evidence of man defines our modern landscape and is overwhelming and beautiful." - Paul Yem in his statement for The Modern Land

For Breathing Walls, Rhea Karam has photographed walls in Beirut, Lebanon, to find the traces of the city's more than tumultuous past.

Jamie Campbell's Looking Askance "examines the skepticism based around photography as a medium of objective representation," in part by using references to work such as "spirit photography."

Sur la trace du renard by Louis Perreault documents signs of occupation in an otherwise vacant lot.

Outback, by Andrew Babington, "is a series of eight large-scale constructed photographs, depicting fictional narratives based in the Australian rural landscape and the fears of the outback that have been represented and exploited in film, literature, art and journalism since colonial times."

"In patriarchal Indian society, being a kothi (an Indian term for effeminate and transsexual man) is still a matter of shame. The social stigma is a serious barrier to joining mainstream occupations. To earn a living, some kothis become launda (drag) dancers. For poor families from the interiors of UP and Bihar looking for a grand wedding, boys in drag become a cheap substitute for dancing girls." - Chhandak Pradhan about Lipstick Men

Yero Adugna Eticha was born in Ethiopia and now resides in Berlin. Tulu Gedo portrays the little Ethiopian village where the photographer's grandmother lives.

"It was only recently that I decided on a name for this series: Off Route 80. Before that the work done in Grapevine Hollow, West Virginia, since 2006 was provisionally called New Landscapes. My reticence in giving the series a title stemmed from a desire to resist naming a specific place or region, in this case Appalachia with its negative connotations dating back from before the Civil War. To do so would be declaring the work a documentary record -which of course it is, albeit a highly subjective one, belonging to a tradition where the artist admits to being part of the situation portrayed." - Susan Lipper. Make sure to look at the images individually, and don't miss the videos!