Issue

GINA OSTERLOH, Mute (Shooting Blanks), 2008. Lambda print, 30 x 40 in. Courtesy de Soto Gallery, Los Angeles.

Manila: Gina Osterloh

LIANG YUANWEI, A Piece of Life, 2006-08. Oil on canvas, 28 x 24 cm. Courtesy Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing.

Beijing: Liang Yuanwei

Sally Smart, The Exquisit Pirate (Red/Black/Flag), 2007. Synthetic polymer paint, ink and foil on canvas with collage elements, 188 x 132 cm. Courtesy Amelia Johnson Contemporary,

Hong Kong: Sally Smart

WAEL SHAWKY, Bangkok #12, 2008. Graphite, silver pigment and mixed media on paper, 21 x 30 cm.Courtesy Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut.

Bangkok: All Our Everydays

Installation view of ATUL BHALLA's exhibition

London: Atul Bhalla

LINA SANEH, I Had a Dream, 2006, video stills. Courtesy the artist.

Oxford: Lina Saneh

RANBIR KALEKA, Man with Cockerel - 2, 2002, video stills. Couresy Bose Pacia Gallery, New York.

New York: Ranbir Kaleka

LALEH KHORRAMIAN, I Without End, 2008. Video still. Courtesy Salon 94 Freemans, New York.

Laleh Khorramian: I Without End

ARDESHIR MOHASESS, Today's martyrs demonstrate in honor of tomorrow's martyrs, 1978, ink on paper, 46.8 x 62.4 cm. Collection of Professor Ali Banuazizi. Photo by Richard Lee. Cour

New York: Ardeshir Mohassess

ELENA VOROBYEVA and VICTOR VAROBIEV, Photo for Memory. If a Mountain Doesn't Go to Mahomet, 2002, Photograph.Courtesy the artist.

San Francisco: Tracing Roads Through Central Asia

SENT A LETTER By Dayanita Singh. Published by Steidl Photography International, London, 2008.Seven softcover volumes in handmade cloth box, 126 pages. Black-and-white photographs

BOOK REVIEWS: At Face Value

(Detail) THE TOUCHING, 2007, paper, wood, iron, 400 x 400 x 380 cm. Courtesy Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam.

Karen Sargsyan: Tragic Tales & Paper Trails

Photographed by Lois Conner for ArtAsiaPacific

Byron Kim

RESCUE, 1999-2002, gelatin silver print, 26 x 37.5 in. All images in this article are courtesy of Murray Guy Gallery, New York.

An-My Lê: Theater of Observation