
Rituals and origin stories across Japan’s southern islands
Land art, mythic stones, Shikoku pilgrims, and contemporary architecture as seen by photographer Laurence Ellis for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

Officine Générale’s portraits of persona
Photographer Laurence Ellis and stylist Giovanni Laudicina take an introspective approach with these never-before-seen photos

A Return to the Land: Regenerative agricultural practices safeguard future fertility
Photographer Laurence Ellis captures the farmers paving a new path toward sustainability for Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue

Cornwall’s sheep shearing community models the latest collection from S.S. Daley, flipping the high-class uniform on its head
Captured by photographer Laurence Ellis, the resulting series explores themes of masculinity and belonging in luxury fashion

Slab City, California: The artistic outpost where outsiders find home
Photographer Laurence Ellis captures creative community on the fringes for Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue

From ecological restoration to robot artists, technologists explore how machines could transform our relationship with nature
In this portfolio for Document’s Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 edition, photographer Laurence Ellis investigates how emerging technologies might shape our planetary future

Saved by the rave: British youth are reclaiming public land to party, even during a pandemic
Photographer Laurence Ellis documents the outdoor free parties where communitarian spirit rages on

Vietnam’s “plastic village” is the tale of Western excess
For Document's Spring/Summer 2020 issue, photographer Laurence Ellis traveled to Australia, Zambia, and Vietnam to investigate what might become of the planet

Capturing the beauty and resilience of London’s Southall community
Laurence Ellis and Priya Ahluwalia present a visual ode to modern British multiculturalism

Document takes a field trip to Art Omi with Birkenstock 1774
Explore Upstate’s coolest sculpture and architecture park in this film and fashion portfolio.

T+E+A+M is bringing sustainable architecture to the digital era
Document gets an inside look at the architecture practices's innovative up-cycled design, courtesy of photographer Laurence Ellis.

Their lands, our future: photographing the resiliency and innovation in the Zambian floodplains
Laurence Ellis documents the Barotseland region for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.

Amazonian indigenous communities are the rainforest’s last, best hope
An event hosted by the Rainforest Foundation at the Ford Foundation illuminated the next chapter of indigenous conservationism, presenting the knowledge of local communities and...

Their lands, our future: the indigenous frontline defenders of the Amazon
Photographer Laurence Ellis documents the Loreto region of the Amazon rainforest for Document Fall/Winter 2019.

The climate activists fighting for our future, from the deep south to Canadian north
Photographer Laurence Ellis documents the fight against rising sea levels and Big Oil in a photo essay for Document S/S 2019.

Blood, Christ, and shock value: the gospel according to Ron Athey
The underground performance artist talks to Slava Mogutin about penetration, catharsis, and spirituality for Document S/S 2019.

At Alaska’s “ground zero” for climate change, a new generation of activists fights to preserve a vanishing way of life
Photographer Laurence Ellis and Peter H. Gleick chronicle Alaskans' efforts to fight climate change in Document's Fall/Winter 2018 issue.

Laurence Ellis discovers the humans making utopia
The photographer travelled to four different intentional living communities across the globe in pursuit of intimacy
What drives our search for utopia?
Religious freedom, inequality, sexual freedom—the pursuit of utopia is always a reflection of contemporary moods

Letter from the Editor
For the second issue celebrating five years of Document, founder and editor-in-chief Nick Vogelson speaks on unification and the Fall/Winter issue.

Oxford’s Dr. Anders Sandberg Combats A.I.’s Threat to Humanity with His Whiteboard
Dr. Anders Sanberg is looking to save humanity from extinction from an unlikely instigator.
