The World of Sex Doll Manufacturing

For his photo series “Sex Dolls,” photographer Robert Benson ventured into a sex doll factory to capture their unusual manufacturing process. Inside, he discovered a slightly bizarre set-up, with plastic bodies hanging from the ceiling, a line-up of mouths awaiting assembly, and a chart of nipple sizes for workers to choose from. His resulting images depict the dolls in an environment completely opposite of their …

How City Noise Affects Public Health

Over the last year, Harvard PhD candidate Erica Walker has been cycling around Boston with a decibel meter. She’s determined to map out the city’s noise to see how it affects the public’s health. “Noise is insidious,” she tells The Atlantic. “It affects you acutely, but also longterm. This is something that people don’t really talk about, but something people really suffer from.” She eventually …

Lunchtime Photos of Everyday Citizens During the ’70s

Throughout the late ‘70s, photographer Charles H Traub traveled around Chicago, New York City and several European cities to capture everyday citizens during lunch time. His impromptu shots show his subjects—all dressed in the charismatic outfits of the time—as they pose for the camera—some clearly a bit perplexed by the situation. Click through to see more from the photo series, titled “Lunch Time.”