TIGHTNESS

Sophia Nasif
London
These photographs are from a 14-hour trip I took with some incredible fishermen from Raa Atoll, Maldives. We left at 2:30 am, and returned just before sunset. Titled ‘Masdhoni (Fishing Boat)’, this is a project that I am hoping to expand further over the next few years. In this image, one of the…
Eliot Charof
Los Angeles
When I was a kid growing up in Massachusetts, we used to visit our grandparents in Los Angeles each summer. They would take us down to Muscle Beach in Venice to watch the bodybuilders and buy us Arnold Schwarzenegger t-shirts, making us feel like the strongest kids in the world. That memory always…
Jess Leaf Lensmire
Milwaukee
June 17th, I believe it was Saturday in the afternoon.  There is a skatepark that won't show up on your gps in Milwaukee, where people sweat, elbow a buddy after they said something stupid, drink and share cigs during dusk and oft until 4 am.  Sometimes the lone wolf skaters will work on…
Shane Kaucheck
Bolinao
Visiting the Hundred Islands National Park in the Philippines, I was graciously shown life as it was: hard but fulfilling. The main subject shown here was a fisherman who traveled from island to island selling his day's catch to other residents and tourists alike who wanted a taste of the local…