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"She’s Got Legs" car, West End Fair, Gilbert, Pa.

Bill Lowenburg

When photographer Bill Lowenburg spotted the “She’s Got Legs” car at his first demolition derby, he was enthralled. Lowenburg, who is also a high school librarian (and before that a high school history teacher), had already been studying outsider art for years and sees derby culture, with its outlandishly decorated cars, as an obvious extension of it.

Cerise Doucède

Is it possible to visualize the moments when daydreaming interrupts reality?

Justin Quinnell

Photographer Justin Quinnell says he has a lot of crazy ideas and not enough time to try them all.

The Great Platte River Road Archway, Kearney, Neb., 2009

Jeff Jacobson

Photographer Jeff Jacobson’s new book, The Last Roll, published by Daylight Books, began much like Jacobson’s other projects: without an idea.

Jen Osborne for Colors No. 83—Happiness: A Survival Guide

By her own account, Canadian photographer Jen Osborne has a pretty high tolerance for strange things.

Camp 6, mobile force-feeding chair (l) Ex-detainee's home, Kuwait

Edmund Clark (2)

Edmund Clark’s series about Guantanamo Bay isn’t simply a glimpse into one of the world’s most controversial detention camps. Clark spent three years working on what would become a book, Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out, which focuses on the naval base and prison camp at Guantanamo Bay as well as a look into the homes of released detainees.

4 a.m. 2003 (l) Fantasy No. 1. 2004

Jen Davis

Like a million other college students on spring break, Jen Davis took a picture of herself and her friends while they were hanging out on a beach.

A young boy argues balls and strikes with a volunteer umpire during a practice game.

Michael Hanson

When photographer Michael Hanson traveled to the Dominican Republic to document what would become his series about baseball in the Caribbean nation, he was struck by how ubiquitous the sport is there.

"Shake Series" Bloodhound 1 (l) Bloodhound 2

Carli Davidson

Portland-based photographer Carli Davidson’s series “Shake” was originally inspired by her 8-year-old Dogue de Bordeaux, Norbert, who is an “epic shaker.”

Chef Tagonishiki prepares lunch at Takasago-beya.

Paolo Patrizi

The stables where sumo wrestlers practice their sport in Japan are places where tradition reigns and only glimpses of the modern world creep in.