Below is part three of Mikhael Subotzky’s latest ‘Sticky-Tape Transfer’ series, in which he physically deconstructs images by gently lifting pigment from inkjet-print photographs, creating new arrangements that subvert their original presentations.

Sticky-Tape Transfer 64 - Jacaranda | Hermanus, Part 3 of 3 © Mikhael Subotzky / Magnum Photos

From Jim Goldberg is a collage of his rural home in California, taken from his photobook Coming and Going, which was published earlier this year by MACK.

Petaluma, California, USA, 2023. © Jim Goldberg / Magnum Photos

Sohrab Hura contributes with a painting made earlier this year in India, titled “Far from the madding crowd” (Gouache on paper, 20×26cm).

© Sohrab Hura / Magnum Photos

Larry Towell’s selection is from the upcoming photobook The History War, which combines photographs, collages, and ephemera from Ukraine with a timeline that starts in the 5th century. The book is due to be published early next year.

Ukraine, 2023. © Larry Towell / Magnum Photos

In September and October, Thomas Dworzak revisited the Armenian capital of Yerevan and border town of Goris after Nagorno-Karabakh was seized by Azerbaijan. Below is an image from the “Mother Armenia” Military Museum in Yerevan.

Yerevan, Armenia, 2023. © Thomas Dworzak / Magnum Photos

William Keo traveled to Najaf and Karbala in Iraq to document the annual period of mourning around Ashura. Below, families attend a life-size play about the battle of Kerbala in 680.

Najaf, Iraq, July 2023. © William Keo / Magnum Photos

Below, Peter van Agtmael captures civilians searching for loved ones and belongings from an apartment building in Syria, following the 7.8 and 7.7 magnitude earthquakes that struck central and southern Turkey, as well as northern Syria, in early February.

Haram, Syria, 2023. © Peter van Agtmael / Magnum Photos

In Turkey, following the devastating earthquakes, Emin Özmen captured civilians searching for relatives after a building collapsed in the town of Kahramanmaraş.

Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, February 10, 2023. © Emin Özmen / Magnum Photos

Pictured below is a tank at the Be’eri Kibbutz near the blocked Gaza border by Jérôme Sessini, who traveled to the region following the unprecedented Hamas attacks on October 7.

Be’eri, Israel, October 13, 2023. © Jérôme Sessini / Magnum Photos

In the days that followed the seizing of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan, Nanna Heitmann documented refugees fleeing to Armenia. Below, a group arrives at the border village of Kornidzor.

Kornidzor, Armenia, September 25, 2023. © Nanna Heitmann / Magnum Photos

Paolo Pellegrin continued his documentation of life in Ukraine this year with several trips to the region. Below, he captures the moment an elderly woman boards a bus to leave the town of Kostyantynivka, in Donetsk Oblast.

Kostyantynivka, Ukraine, 2023. © Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Photos

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