Stray is fellow Los Angeles based photographer Zach Callahan’s ongoing photo series made in the city.

Zach says: The majority of the pictures are of people who most people consider outsiders or who make up the lower class. These are the people I empathize and identify with. I often feel as though their lives and struggles are of the few genuine things in this city which is marked by the disparity of wealth. I want them to be seen.

See more of Zach’s work here: zachcallahan.com

A certain moment will never recur, ever again.

To take pictures is maybe an act of capturing a singular and precious moment.

But who knows?

Taking pictures is like praying to something unseen which tells us there exists something important and nothing special at the same time.

And it always makes me keep thinking about what this life is.

-Mika Kitamura

Mika Kitamura is a photographer living and working in Tokyo. See more of her brilliant pictures here: mikakitamura.com

Alan Huck is an American photographer living in North Carolina. I was fortunate enough to see a slide-projection of these works as part of Hartford Art School’s 2018 MFA exhibition, of which he is a recent graduate.

Alan says: These images are from an ongoing book project titled »I walk toward the sun which is always going down«. Drawing on the walking literature of the Surrealists, W.G. Sebald, and others, the project takes the form of a literary essay embedded with photographs, chronicling a series of extended walks around central New Mexico.

Follow Alan’s work on Instagam @alanrh

Whispering Hope (2017) is a self-published photo book by Chikara Umihara. Umihara, based in Yokohama, lends fresh eyes to a familiar American photographic tradition with this road trip book made over the course of 5 years (2011-2016). Relinquishing control of the wheel, and settling into the patterns and flow of the Greyhound Bus, Umihara made pictures within the confines of its trodden path. Structured as the bus’ course was with its predetermined path and mandatory stops, Chikara presents us with pictures of a nation that are equal parts open to interpretation and distinctly personal in their point of view.

See more of Umihara’s work, and order copies of Whispering Hope, here: chikaraphotography.com

Bittersweet Forest is a book-in-progress by photographer Juan Orrantia. He was kind enough to allow me to share some images of the dummy along with pictures from the book.

Juan says: Bittersweet Forest is a book about fragments of violence that remain in our imagination. For this it goes into the forests of Colombia, and lingers in a town that for many years smelled of cocaine, and was home to a famous right-wing militia paramilitary commander. After his arrest I visited this small town on multiple occasions to engage his lingering presence, the leftovers and effects of years under his power, the imaginaries of a time when cocaine, money, patriarchy and violent desires filtered life in many ways.

Juan is a Colombian photographer living in Johannesburg. To keep up with his work visit: juanorrantia.com

I love the playful way in which this work wears on our perception and our visual associations with our histories. I’m still waiting for Antonis to publish this book in a longer run.

He says: The Book of Fantastic Antiquities is a catalogue of fictitious objects created by appropriating and collaging archival images of artifacts. The book suggests a classification scheme that contradicts its own nature: objects are fitted into imaginary classes by intuition and appearances, rather than by reason and historical fact.

Photographs can provide historical evidence – but they can also produce illusions.

Antonis Theodoridis is a photographer from and living in Athens, Greece. See more of Antonis’ work at: antonistheodoridis.com

Snippets from a food journal that I kept while out shooting in Tokyo this past month. Over the next week, I’ll be sharing more of my own work alongside that of others who I’m excited about.