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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1. Yolanda Y. Liou is celebrating radical self-acceptance

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

2. Poignant Photographs of Love and 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.

3. 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".

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

'The Polaroid Kidd' captures the punks and vagrants traveling across the US in search of a life outside its restrictive post-9/11 norms.

9. 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.

10. 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.