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Watercolor Sydney by Stamen Design

It’s almost Australia Day, the antipodean continent’s version of Independence Day, commemorating the arrival of 11 really big ships into Botany Bay and the emergence of a new southern nation. Today, 20x200’s two resident Aussies—Matthew Tribe (Sydney) and Emma Pearse (Canberra)—compare memories with Watercolor Sydney, a vibrant rendering of Sydney, Australia, where the famed harbor is sparkling and where, at this time of year, locals are getting around in flip-flops. Keep reading.

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Untitled #6 by Jessica Bruah

What story does this image tell? Artist Jessica Bruah began her project Stories, from which this image is taken, as a way to merge her interests in writing and photography. “The work is influenced by the formal qualities of short fiction and its tendency to focus on a single mood or event,” says Bruah.

This enigmatic photograph contains elements that could be innocuous or sinister, depending on the tale created by the viewer. For what purpose will the gasoline can be used?

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Lariat, TX, 2012 by Ilona Szwarc

Ilona Szwarc’s Rodeo Girls is a portrait project about young girls who compete in rodeos on a professional level.  Theirs “is a unique lifestyle, where kids are brought up in a very strict and disciplined manner, with emphasis on hard work, respect and cultivation of friendships and family relationships,” says Szwarc.

Szwarc is one of five exceptionally talented photographers selected to be a Second Edition 2012 Hot Shot. Learn more about Szwarc and about the Hey, Hot Shot! photography competition

Disassembled by Ky Anderson

Ah, the human eye, which searcges for reflections of itself everywhere it looks. It’s a figure—or is it a figure eight? An hourglass, or perhaps the infinity symbol? Ky Anderson calls today’s edition Disassembled, and indeed, this image is made of disparate parts as compelling as they are just out of reach. The pale and dark blue and bright yellow forms that seem to float through this forthrightly posed figure could be layers in a color chart, but they might also suggest sky and water, maybe a sun-baked beach. Inside the confident lines are curlicued wisps of white that could be thoughts as much as clouds—contained chaos amid the work’s initial idea of order. Keep reading.

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Steps by Thomas Prior

An extraordinary image, Steps is part of a project by photographer Thomas Prior examining “dangerous recreation in beautiful places.” In this instance, the place is Blackrock diving tower on the west coast of Ireland. Prior captured this surreal photograph inside the tower at high tide.

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Crystalline Bunker by Aili Schmeltz 

From our SoHo HQ beneath the misty skies of wintry NYC, we’re looking across the continent to Aili Schmeltz’s Crystalline Bunker, an homage to the sunny dystopia that is suburban L.A.

The highways and the high life—Los Angeles can feel like Sodom and Gomorrah, bewitching, beautiful and a bit wicked at once. Schmeltz lives and works in L.A. and is free about her mixed feelings: “My recent drawings examine my love/hate relationship with the city of Los Angeles.” Keep reading.

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A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart by D.W. Kellogg & Co.

Created by a Connecticut woman in the first half of the 19th century, this image reveals much about its era’s attitude toward women. Take a minute to inspect the map, which includes locales like the Pyramids of Fashion and Dandy’s Rest. And at the very center you’ll find its greatest region—the City and District of Love.  Learn more.

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Eighth Avenue and Central Park by Joseph O. Holmes
Every picture tells a story, true. But Eighth Avenue and Central Park, the 23rd and 24th 20x200 editions (!!!) by chronicler-of-NYC Joseph O. Holmes, have an especially intriguing genesis. We might never see the likes of them again, so read on for the back story of how they came to be. Keep reading.
Prints of these editions begin at $60. 
Eighth Avenue and Central Park by Joseph O. Holmes
Every picture tells a story, true. But Eighth Avenue and Central Park, the 23rd and 24th 20x200 editions (!!!) by chronicler-of-NYC Joseph O. Holmes, have an especially intriguing genesis. We might never see the likes of them again, so read on for the back story of how they came to be. Keep reading.
Prints of these editions begin at $60. 

Eighth Avenue and Central Park by Joseph O. Holmes

Every picture tells a story, true. But Eighth Avenue and Central Park, the 23rd and 24th 20x200 editions (!!!) by chronicler-of-NYC Joseph O. Holmes, have an especially intriguing genesis. We might never see the likes of them again, so read on for the back story of how they came to be. Keep reading.

Prints of these editions begin at $60