Fotografia’s top article of this February was French photographer Julien Lombardi‘s wonderful photographs from Armenia, the most under-represented of the post-Soviet countries. Polish photographer Igor Pisuk follows with his dark, intense self-portraits and pictures of his daily life as a recovering alcohol addict.

The bronze medal goes to American photographer Anna Shimshak with her stunning photographs of clergymen and vowed women religious. Then there’s German photographer Jörg Brüggemann, who offers a powerful angle to the current depiction of the migrant crisis. Finally, American photographer Ewan Telford makes the top five with Rock Salt, his series about a declining mining town in California which premiered on Fotografia in FotoFirst.

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Brilliat Photographs of Armenia Capture the Country’s State of Transition

How Photography Saved Igor Pisuk from His Alcohol Addiction

Ecstatic Photos of Religious Catholics Interrogate the Relationship between Spirituality and Physicality

Startling Photos Juxtapose the Tourists and Refugees on the Greek Island of Kos

FotoFirst – Inside Trona, a Ghost Mining Town Dissolving in the Mojave Desert