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    10 must-see photography stories we ran this month

    From surreal shots in Mongolia to Berlin's most popular cruising sites, here are our picks from September.

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    Enjoy the photography on i-D? Why not submit your own imagery to our ongoing series, My Month in Photos. We take submissions at the end of each month — full instructions on how to enter here.

    a seated plus size model in a pair of white briefs poses with her arms across her front in the sunlight

    Yolanda Y. Liou is celebrating radical self-acceptance

    The Taiwan-born photographer reveals a new photobook that celebrates sisterhood and challenges traditional beauty standards. Look here.

    a young man wearing jeans and an open shirt reclines on a stripy sofa; a tabled full of glasses and a vodka bottle cover the coffee table in the foreground

    Poignant photographs of love & friendship in pre-AIDS New York

    Patrick McMullan and his friend Nora Burns recall memories of the raucous times spent with friends like Tom Ford and Andy Warhol. Look here.

    a slightly distorted photo of a young mongolian boy sticking his tongue out and pulling at his ears playfully

    Tim Wong’s surreal photos of Mongolia were taken on a quest for belonging

    The Hong Kong photographer explores “different ways of conceiving society, our relationship to the land and each other”. Look here.

    a young person in a t-shirt in the process of dying their cropped hair blue

    J Houston’s photographs imagine a Midwestern trans universe

    A culmination of eight years of work, ‘Tuck and Roll’ draws upon thousands of portraits of their trans friends and siblings. Look here.

    a mother with face tattoos wearing a hooded dress with a skeleton on it, holding her infant child

    Florence Montmare shot an all-American road trip for a modern world

    Following a lineage of mostly male photographers, she set out to create a new iteration of a classic format. Look here.

    a young Black man with tattoos wearing a novelty vintage T-shirt, standing against a sunny wall

    Photographing an imagined queer utopia

    Parsons graduate Angelo Capacyachi takes photographs that draw on the theorist José Esteban Muñoz’s ideas of queer futurity and world-building. Look here.

    the bodies and legs of three men pressed up against each other in a field

    Anonymous photographs inside Berlin’s most popular cruising spots

    Parks and woodlands have long been places for quick, anonymous, consensual sex. Lukas Städler documents them. Look here.

    a polaroid depicting a close up of a bruised neck

    Mike Brodie’s polaroids of American runaway kids in the 00s

    ‘The Polaroid Kidd’ captures the punks and vagrants travelling across the US in search of a life outside its restrictive post-9/11 norms. Look here.

    a south east asian man in a wet red t-shirt stands in a swimming pool; a water pistol floats nearby

    The photographer confronting techno-Orientalism, one cyborg at a time

    With her new project, Ramona Jingru Wang upends stereotypes of Asian identity in mainstream media. Look here.

    a girl in a white blouse and red tennis skirt lies down on a parquet floor next to a can of diet coke

    Molly Soda’s Chick Magnet is a vision board for the internet age

    In her new photo book, the artist enters the kitchen to explore the relationships between modern life, the internet, food and femininity. Look here.

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