“This is a story of then and now.” 

Ten years after her first visit, photographer Zoe Morley wants to return to a village in South Africa dedicated to children affected by HIV/AIDS, to re-photograph her subjects and raise awareness. The project is titled Nonjabulo Revisited, after one of the children she spent time with — the word also means “happiness” in Zulu.

The series “will capture stories told through the children of an AIDS epidemic, while also being a reflection of time passed,” Morley says. “It aims to not only raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, but also give hope to other young people affected by the virus.” 

Support the project here. 

These are the lost stories of a million historic women. 

In the dark days of the Second World War, a million British women — ten percent of the country’s population — volunteered their time to the war effort on the home front. From serving tea and buns to people who’d been bombed out of their homes to making sweaters out of dog hair, these women stepped up to the challenge of keeping the country going during wartime. But until now, their stories have been largely forgotten.

The Royal Voluntary Service has more than 300,000 pieces of paper that make up “a vast diary of women’s lives,” and they want to make them freely available online for the first time, to preserve and tell the stories of “the heart, understanding, and selflessness” of these heroic women. 

Support the project here.

The Chemical Wedding is, on its face, a story of a man who gets invited to a wedding. But that’s just the beginning. Many consider this 400-year-old book to be the first true science fiction novel. Now, science fiction publisher Small Beer Press wants to bring a beautiful edition of this weird, wonderful book to contemporary readers, with a reimagining of the original text by writer John Crowley.

“We’ve never had the chance to make something quite this unique,” says Small Beer Press cofounder Gavin J. Grant. He describes The Chemical Wedding as “one of the most outlandish stories in Western literature” — help the press republish it here.

Inspired by antique tiles in old and abandoned buildings in Haifa, Israel, Rememory’s endlessly reusable stencil kits let you recreate their intricate patterns on most any surface. This is definitely one for all you DIYers who love getting paint-splattered — support the project here!

Taken with disposable cameras, the surreal stills of Voyage Book 2 document a photographer’s solitary travels abroad.

In 2013, Valentine Ammeux traveled through South America, inspired by a reading of Gabriel García Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. She decided to travel sans laptop, smartphone, or digital camera, so along the way, she stopped at kiosks to buy disposable cameras and develop her photos. “Overlays, spills, burns and faded tints, the prints certainly bear the mark of the place where they’ve been revealed!” she says. 

Now, to accompany an upcoming exhibition of the photos, Valentine wants to share her photos with you. Support the photobook and see more images here. 

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#tbt from opening day at Hank Willis Thomas: The Truth is I See You

Less than a month left to see the exhibition at MetroTech Commons in Brooklyn!

And don’t forget, you still have time (hours, in fact!) to help Hank and the Cause Collective bring the Truth Booth across all 50 states! Check out their Kickstarter. 

Bonfires, bedrooms, breathtaking landscapes — with Junior Magazine, two young Irish photographers are on a mission to showcase the best young documentary photographers in Dublin.

“We seek to foster a new photographic community and shine a spotlight on outstanding work that is too often overlooked,” creators George Voronov and Ellius Grace say. The project is also “a love letter to the city they call home.” 

Pictured above is Junior’s adorable mascot, Joey. Learn more and help support the project here. 

Help the team behind the Oscar-nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild build a home for community-based art, filmmaking, and creativity in New Orleans.

Court 13 is a crew of filmmakers, artists, craftspeople, and builders who came together to collaborate on the film that would become Beasts. Now, with the nonprofit Court 13 Arts, they want to support the community and grow their family. “We have pulled off magical endeavors while headquartered in an abandoned squash court, an egg factory refrigerator, a bayou gas station, and a defunct school building,” they say. “But at the end of each project, we’ve had to dismantle our workshops, sell off our tools, store or scrap our creations, and send our team scrambling until the next project is up and running.”

At their permanent headquarters in NOLA, they want to help artists bring their ideas to life through creative partnerships and access to exhibition spaces, materials, and tools. “We envision the Court 13 Arts Headquarters as a place where connections form across disciplines; where dynamic venues showcase innovative art; where artists work, projects develop, and emerging talents gain access to opportunities and resources; and where this expanded Court 13 Arts family comes together to experience the results.”

The team shared these beautiful renderings of the space with us. Learn more and support the project here.

Time travel through the remaining architecture and landscaping of the World’s Fair pavilions. Over the past eight years, Jade Doskow has traveled to twenty-six sites in North America and Europe to shoot these structures, which she calls “some of the most extraordinary and futuristic structures on the planet,” including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Atomium in Brussels, Philip Johnson’s New York State Pavilion in New York, and the Space Needle in Seattle.

Her photobook, Lost Utopias, will be a collection of “these wildly imaginative sites and structures as they exist today, often repurposed, abandoned, or surrounded by a strange new environment unimaginable at the time of construction,” she says. “These sites exist as surreal, dreamlike time machines, simultaneously looking forward and back.”

See more and support the project here!

New Zealander Unna Burch, who blogs at The Forest Cantina, taught herself everything she knows about good home cooking — and now, with her second Forest Cantina cookbook, she’s ready to teach you. 

“During the week I want fuss-free meals. Tasty food that isn’t too complicated to put together,” she says. “Weekends or during the holidays I like to make dishes that require a little more time and attention. My food philosophy is fresh, free range, and fair trade.”

The book also provides a guide to suburban self-sufficiency, including how-tos on keeping gardens, chickens, and bees — yes, bees! Dig in to the project here.

Donkey-drawn carts, livestock wandering the streets, traditional music sessions, religious pilgrimages, the hum of local pubs — see the faces of pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland in this lovely collection of photographs.

In the days before the period of economic expansion known as the Celtic Tiger wrought dramatic change across Ireland, photographer Claude le Gall visited the country again and again. His photos captured the people, places, and landscapes of 1980s and ‘90s Ireland, snapshots of a nation on the cusp of a major transformation.

Being Irish will be “a fascinating collection of images that emphasize the warmth and hardiness of the people,” says the book’s publisher, Bluecoat Press. Support the project and see more photos here.

Graphic artist Lucio Zago has lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for nearly a quarter of a century, and during that time he’s witnessed a lot of stories. “I’ve lived on Grand Street at a nexus between Caribbean, Italian and Hasidic Jewish communities,” he says. “I’ve watched the dramatic gentrifications of the neighborhood with, the cultural and economic clashes that came as a result.”

In Williamsburg Shorts, he’ll tell some of this stories — from the relationship between Hasids and hipsters to the struggles of the Italian immigrants who came to the neighborhood at the turn of the 20th century to the history of the Domino Sugar factory. The graphic novel will offer “a satirical perspective on a well-known tale for Williamsburg insiders” that can also “act as a historical tour guide for visitors in the future.”

Learn more about the collection here.