Photograph by Marc Garanger

Marc Garanger’s portraits of Algerian women in 1960s regroupment villages are strong reminders of the power of the photograph as historical record. See the work here on LightBox.

Photograph by Tim Hetherington

An exhibition of Tim Hetherington’s work will be opening tonight at Yossi Milo, on view until May 19 — more information here.

For more photography events in April, visit The Guide.

Photograph by Daido Moriyama

Now on view at Steven Kasher Gallery: Daido Moriyama: Now and Now. Steven Kasher Gallery, NY. March 28 - May 4, 2013. 

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Photograph by Henry Groskinsky—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

On April 4, 1968, LIFE’s Henry Groskinsky, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot in Memphis. He raced to the scene and captured grim, riveting images that went unpublished for decades. See the photos here on LIFE.com.

Photograph by Mark Steinmetz

Now on view at Stephen Wirtz Gallery:  Photographs, an exhibition of black-and-white portrait and landscape photographs by Mark Steinmetz, selected from his celebrated series Greater Atlanta, South East, and South Central, as well as his more recent book, Summertime. The exhibition runs till April 27, 2013.

See more of Steinmetz’s work on LightBox here.

No photographer would ever get as close to Elvis as Alfred Wertheimer. His intimate photographs of the young, rising star reveal a carefree and innocent time before he became a cultural icon. On the publication of Taschen’s new book, Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll, TIME met with Wertheimer to reminisce about the days and nights he spent with the rocker on the cusp of unfathomable fame: http://ti.me/Z5FfTe

Wertheimer talks about his iconic picture, ‘The Kiss’: June 30, 1956. Backstage at the Mosque Theatre, Richmond Virginia. The story on this one is that Elvis had performed somewhere near Charleston, South Carolina on one of those one-day affairs. So Elvis was back in his hotel room. She was with some of her friends, slightly inebriated, when her friends said, “we dare you to call Elvis at his hotel.” So she gets on the phone and she’s showing the gals that she’s got chutzpah and says, “Are you Elvis Presley?” He says, “Yes, I am.” At the time, her name was Bobbi Owens, so he says, “That’s nice Bobbi,” and they get into a half an hour chat. Elvis says, “The next time I’m down in this area I’ll send a car for you and you can come up and be with me all day and watch from backstage.” So she said “okay.”

A while later, maybe a month or so, he’s performing at the Mosque theater, and so he calls her and says “I’ll be there on the 30th of June, can you make it?” So he has one of his bodyguards drive from Memphis (400 miles) down to South Carolina, pick her up and go up to Richmond (that’s almost a 1000 miles round trip). And Elvis meets her at the hotel, and they horse around a little bit at the hotel.

Then he takes her to the theater in the back of the cab with ‘Junior’ Smith. After Elvis finishes combing his hair above the stage (there were no dressing room in the theater) he disappeared on me. I looked around to find Elvis, so I walk down the stairwell… and I see two figures at the end of the hallway, with a light over their head and a bulb in the background. And I’m standing here, I become a human tripod… I’m shooting stuff at a half a second, and I’m thinking about what Capa said, that if you aren’t close enough, your photos are probably boring…so I try and get up on top of these pipes and shoot over her shoulder Hollywood style into her face. What I needed was front lighting. So I’m going down on the landing and I’ve got my front lighting, and no sooner do I get myself set, then she says to him, “Elvis, I bet you can’t kiss me!” That’s all he needed, so he said, “I betcha I can.” I didn’t realize that he had tried twice to kiss her until about two weeks later. Until I developed my film in my laboratory, I didn’t realize he had bent her nose the first time, and the second time it was perfect, tongue to tongue, tip to tip. 55 years later, she denies on national television that he ever did kiss her, and that she was really on her way to Philadelphia to see her boyfriend.

For more of Wertheimer’s images and memories of Elvis, visit LightBox.

Khadija with her 12 hours old baby. She was denied paid maternity leave by her employers. (Photo: Gazi Nafis Ahmed—VII Mentor Program)

Work by Gazi Nafis Ahmed, a member of the VII Mentor Program, will be exhibited during the 6th edition of the Format International Photography Festival 2013 in Derby, United Kingdom, March 8 - 26, 2013.

For more information, visit FORMATfestival.com.

Photograph by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Girl on a Spacehopper, 1971.

L. Parker Stephenson presents Byker, an exhibition of the work of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen: 

The Byker project focuses on a terraced district in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne that gives its name to the series and where Konttinen lived from 1969 to 1976. Her documentation sensitively and poignantly captures the social fabric of a working class community prior to its disintegration at the hands of urban redevelopment (in this case in the form of Ralph Erskine’s Byker Wall Estate). Byker was not only the subject of Konttinen’s first major project but also a place she returned to some thirty years later to focus on its new population using color photography.

The show is on view till May 11 — for more information, click here.

Photograph by Robin Hammond

Congratulations to Robin Hammond, who was awarded the 2013 FotoEvidence award for his project Condemned:

Some have suffered severe trauma which has led to illness. Others were born with mental disability. Either way, in countries where infrastructure has collapsed, where displacement has driven the mentally ill away from services, treatment is often the same: a life in chains.

I started documenting the lives of the mentally ill in African countries in crisis in an attempt to raise awareness of their plight. I travelled to war ravaged areas of Congo, South Sudan, Somalia and Uganda. I spent time with the displaced in refugee camps in Somalia and Kenya. In Nigeria I went to see the impacts of corruption on facilities for the mentally ill.

After 12 years of documenting human rights issues, I’ve never come across a greater assault on human dignity. These people are unseen and therefore their suffering ignored. I want to see this work published so ignorance will no longer be able to be used as an excuse for inaction.

Elliott Erwitt—Magnum

To commemorate Valentine’s Day in a unique and moving way, LightBox turned to Elliott Erwitt’s sprawling archive for inspiration.