The tomb of Sultan Mohammed Telai, great-great grandfather of Nadir Shir, an Afghan king. Its arches are decorated in Italianate stucco, but the tomb itself is badly damaged and graffitied. The strategic location of the hill is readily apparent from here, and was much fought over in the 1990s.

Yuri Kozyrev visited Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, and saw a Kabul that has been shaped by war. See more here.

France

This photograph, believe it or not, was taken near Shanghai.

Spanish photographer Pablo Conejo traveled to China to document the rapid development of a country full of contradictions. In Shanghai he found himself immersed in a futuristic urban landscape. See more here.

Over the course of ninety days, four photographers posted images to a blog (http://namegame2011.tumblr.com) in response to words supplied monthly by the architect Deborah Berke.

Each photographer also tapped a fellow artist to post photographs in response to one of the words. Berke’s staff weekly printed and pinned up the latest photographs, then added comments on post-it notes. SITUATION presents new prints of a selection of these photographs from the shared archive created by Joseph Maida, Katie Murray, Victoria Sambunaris, and Dan Torop, and by their respective pinch hitters, Lois Conner, Matt Ducklo, David Deutsch, and Adam Putnam.

Julius Shulman (1910-2009) photographed southern California’s most iconic buildings from the 1930s through the 1980s, and helped promote the brave new architecture and design that swept the region after World War II. ‘Julius Shulman: 80 Years of Photography’ is on display at Craig Krull Gallery as part of a region-wide festival, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980. See more here.