Photography

Lebanese photographer Fadi BouKaram is traveling across the U.S. visiting every town that shares the name of homeland. Here he is pictured in front of his 21-foot RV.

Arts

Lebanese photographer's RV trip to U.S. towns named Lebanon brakes for Metro East stop

Alex Heuer

Fadi BouKaram, a photographer from the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon, is on a mission in the United States. He’s attempting to visit all of the…

Overgrown greenery almost entirely obscures a gravestone at which a giant white paper mache heart is positioned.

Arts

‘Something has to be done’: Telling the story of one of the oldest black cemeteries in St. Louis

When Terri Williams’ daughters brought home their Black History Month assignment from school, she noticed most of the historical figures were entertainers…

Mike Hassell, of the Chosen for Change foundation, hugs Joshua Anderson, of the Get Fit Crew, after a dance-off at a party to celebrate what would’ve been Mike Brown’s 20th birthday on May 20, 2016 at Canfield Green Apartments.

Government, Politics & Issues

A Look Back: Our favorite photos from 2016

Carolina Hidalgo

This year 2016 was eventful for both St. Louis and for St. Louis Public Radio. We hired our first photojournalist, Carolina Hidalgo, just over a year ago,…

Arts

Contemporary Art Museum hopes new exhibits restore public's faith after Walker show

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis hopes its upcoming exhibit will help regain some of the public trust lost after the Kelley Walker exhibit spawned…

The artist, dressed in a cow-hide apron, Trillby hat and blinders, poses surrounded by hills of unused asphalt.

Arts

For South African artist, self portraits reflect life, history

Drawn in by the landscape, South African artist Mohau Modisakeng hiked out to municipal yards holding heaps of asphalt in Nbabeni, a township outside Cape…

Portraits hang at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art as workers finish setting up Erika Diettes' exhibit.

Arts

Photographer captures pain of decades-long Colombian conflict through survivors' portraits

Updated 3:20 p.m., Sept. 28 with Erika Diettes and Terry Dempsey's interview on St. Louis on the Air.As the daughter of a Colombian general, Erika Diettes…

Cahokia Power Plant from The American Bottom

Arts

Interactive project will let users explore the St. Louis flood plain online and on foot

Driving down Interstate 70, headed west toward St. Louis, Jesse Vogler looked out the window and was shocked to see a giant mound rising from the earth.…

Lindy Drew sits at a bus stop on North Grand Boulevard. with St. Louis resident Bryan Gordon after approaching him about her social media photo project, Humans of St. Louis.

Arts

This city ‘sucked me in’: Humans of St. Louis cofounder wants to stay and keep conversations going

Nancy Fowler

St. Louis photographer Lindy Drew spends her days talking to strangers.If they’re up for it, Drew asks questions like, “What’s the nicest thing anyone has…

"Pretty Girl," "Pilgrim" and "Storyteller" are all photographs in the “Legends of the 36 Unknown” exhibition by Todd Weinstein.

Arts

Photographer captures faces of hope in 'The 36 Unknown’

Nancy Fowler

A photographer’s search for meaning is the seed of an exhibition opening Sunday on the campus of the St. Louis Jewish Community Center.“Legends of the 36…

Women and police on South Grand during a gathering to mourn VonDerrit Myers

Arts

Side by side: photographs from Ferguson and Paris

Grand Center gallery Duet is pairing photographs by two photographers who documented the Ferguson Protests and the Bataclan shootings in Paris, as well as…