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Henry Head was a British neurologist who is well known for a self-experiment he conducted on his own left arm to study the sensory pathways and recovery after nerve injury.

Henry Head, together with colleague W.H.R. Rivers, performed a famous experiment in 1901 in which Head had two cutaneous nerves in his own left forearm — the radial and external cutaneous nerves — surgically severed. The nerves were then carefully rejoined. Over the following years, Head meticulously documented the gradual return of sensation, working closely with Rivers to test and record changes in touch, temperature, pain, and proprioception.

This self-experiment allowed them to distinguish between two types of sensory systems:

Protopathic (primitive, poorly localized sensations like pain and extreme temperature)

Epicritic (more advanced, fine discriminative touch and temperature)

The experiment was groundbreaking and helped lay the foundation for modern understanding of the somatosensory system and nerve regeneration.

Original images are digitally touched up.

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Joseph Sterling: The Age of Adolescence

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In Nikolai Bakharev’s Relation series, undressed holidaymakers reveal a longing for intimacy and togetherness, breaking free from the uniformity of Soviet life. His psychologically rich portraits reflect both the emotional vulnerability and identity crisis of a society in transition. In a country where nudity was censored for decades, Bakharev’s work stands as a quietly radical act within the realm of unofficial culture.

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Alexandra Duprez

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Bruce Weber - Bear Pond, 1990

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Bruce Weber

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Christ Hunt

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Justine Kurland: Girl Pictures

The North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom. At the same time, it’s a profoundly masculine myth—cowboys, outlaws, Beat poets. Photographer Justine Kurland reclaimed this space in her now-iconic series of images of teenage girls, taken between 1997 and 2002 on the road in the American wilderness. “I staged the girls as a standing army of teenaged runaways in resistance to patriarchal ideals,” says Kurland. She portrays the girls as fearless and free, tender and fierce. They hunt and explore, braid each other’s hair, and swim in sun-dappled watering holes—paying no mind to the camera (or the viewer). Their world is at once lawless and utopian, a frontier Eden in the wild spaces just outside of suburban infrastructure and ideas. Twenty years on, the series still resonates, published here in its entirety and including newly discovered, unpublished images.

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Mark Steinmetz

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Mika Ninagawa

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Mika Ninagawa

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I shall always refuse to be a photographer: this attraction frightens me, it seems to me that it can quickly turn to madness, because everything is photographable, everything is interesting to photograph, and out of one day of one’s life one could cut out thousands of instants, thousands of little surfaces, and if one begins why stop?

— Hervé Guibert, The Mausoleum of Lovers, Journals 1976–1991

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Alfred Stieglitz: From the Back Window of 291, April 1915

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Jitka Hanzlova

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HERE AND NOW

Poem: Shuntaro Tanikawa Photographs: Rinko Kawauchi

Published by Torch Press

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Joel Meyerowitz

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Imre Kinszki