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In Greece, the perils of a drawn-out debt crisis are imprinted on its younger population — whose unemployment numbers are soaring — who turn to selling their bodies for money and to a dangerous, cheap new street drug for escape.

Europe's sovereign debt crisis has largely been a story told through numbers. Telling that story photographically, however, has required looking beyond common depictions of demonstrations or evictions - at how Europeans actually live the crisis.

The photographer Ian Bates examines the perils of his generation - being left behind as the economy flails and technologies upend order.

Alec Soth had less than a week to portray an American city for The New York Times Magazine, Kerri MacDonald reports.