"The Lafayette White Cross Protest Memorial" is a pictorial edition of Northern California's most striking and poignant monument established for soldiers who have died in the Iraqi, Afghanistan and overseas battlefield conflicts. Established in November 2006 as a protest against American involvement in Iraq, the Memorial has become an important symbol of remembrance with over 4000 rustic white crosses implanted on a hillside in suburban Lafayette. The inclined property overlooks one of Contra Costa County's freeway arteries and the Lafayette BART transit station. Photographer Marques Vickers...

"Death of a Post Office: The Bruised Legacy of Architect William H. Corlett" details the abrupt 2014 closure and aftermath of the Franklin Street Post Office in Napa, California. The Art Deco style building, constructed in 1933 sustained significant structural damage during the August 23rd Napa earthquake closing the facility to public access and mail sorting operations. Author Marques Vickers began photographing the exterior damage on the morning of the quake and continued in intervals until January 2017. Over 70+ images display the building's exterior wounds. Vickers' narrative follows the...

Irony and subtlety enable proper satire. The shrewder and more subversive the message, the greater the likelihood it will be misunderstood or unappreciated. Photographer, author and social satirist Marques Vickers has compiled a series of comparative images and commentary in his edition "102 Satirical Photographic Ironies: Subtle to Subversive." The photographic compositions are laid out to resemble contemporary advertisements. This edition is an entertaining and disarming visual portrayal of lifestyle choices and realities that pose paradoxical contrasts. Vickers' third satirical work...

Author and Photographer Marques Vickers examines a propaganda story introduced by Russian President Vladimir Putin crediting himself with single-handedly defusing a hostile East German crowd intent on ransacking the Dresden KGB offices in 1989. Vickers' book "Vladimir Putin and Dresden, Germany: The Genesis of Myth Making," recounts the narrative, first related in Putin's published memoirs "First Person" (2000) and later embellished in a 2009 broadcast via a Russian national television documentary. Between 1985 and 1990, Putin was stationed as a KGB officer in Dresden, Germany, the third...