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This evocative series weaves astrology, surreal imagery, and raw emotion into a striking exploration of impending motherhood, unplanned pregnancy, and the contradictions of female identity.

Blending black and white photographs, diaristic writing, and carefully chosen family archives, Hady Barry offers us an intimate look at a complex mother and daughter relationship.

Toby Binder’s intimate documentary-portraits explore the intersecting struggles of poverty, belonging, and identity faced by young people living on the margins of rich, industrial Germany.

Created over three years, “Rite of Passage” captures Randhawa and her friends as they navigate girlhood, identity, and self-discovery growing up in Delhi.

Mixing documentary and first-person narrative, Maria Abranches sheds light on the overlooked legacies of Portuguese colonialism, through the story of one woman’s life.

Cargo examines the impact of the Internet on relationships, focusing on how digital interactions mediate personal connections.

Through images of the Texas landscape and personal history, Ariana Gomez weaves a visual narrative of lost land, family, and identity—inviting readers to step into a story of memory, migration, and belonging.

A striking visual exploration of girlhood, exposing the tension between identity, societal pressures, gender performance, and the paradox of innocence and desirability in the smartphone age.

BJP is saddened to hear that photographer and visual artist Nona Faustine has passed away. In celebration of her life and work, we are republishing our interview on White Shoes, her alternative history of the USA and its slave trade
The post Nona Faustine unpacks the dark and hidden history of America appeared first on 1854 Photography.

The new show sees the filmmaker curate decades of protest and activism throughout British history
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Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby
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BJP explores The Tree of Life: A Love Letter to Nature, the festival’s ninth edition in Milan
The post PhotoVogue Festival 2025 reminds us where we belong appeared first on 1854 Photography.

The photographer challenged the status quo of Moroccan education through surrealism in The Classroom, now published by Loose Joints
The post From classrooms to living rooms and donkeys: Moroccan sensibilities according to Hicham Benohoud appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Repressed under communism, Polish photography burst into new life after 1989 and is now creatively evolving again, says Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska, director of the Museum of Warsaw
The post Playtime in Poland, where photography is enjoying its rebirth appeared first on 1854 Photography.

What Did You Want to See? at Ikon Gallery turns the lens on Birmingham’s Muslim community, reclaiming visibility through portraiture and architecture
The post Mahtab Hussain casts British Muslims as the surveillants instead of the surveilled appeared first on 1854 Photography.

The photographer’s new book with Loose Joints is in dialogue with his previous projects documenting migration
The post “Photography is a consequence of something else”: Tracing the Rio Bravo with Felipe Romero Beltrán appeared first on 1854 Photography.

The post Beyond the Silence: An Exhibition in Lviv, Ukraine appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Othering, debated through the discourse of reading the camera as a difference machine, seems at the crux of much of photography’s woes. Challenged by the notion that the machine is neutral in its observational and technical ability, the authorship and cultural means of producing images are undergoing a fruitful re-assessment of its terms to represent, […]

  With Japanese photography, I have had to change how I look at it from the surface level toward something much more intricate in my understanding of how Japanese artists approach the camera. When I first started looking into the national camera of Japan, the obvious references were already a known quantity to me. Classic […]

I am relatively new to Jochen Lempert’s work, or at least his books. I was aware of his book Phenomena from 2013, which seems a favorite among his fans and commands a decent price at auction. I tend to note these things to argue with or argue against about a book’s “weight” amongst the bevy […]

When confronted with any set of images or photographs in series, it is instinctual to try and form an understanding of what is being communicated. In the absence of being explicitly told, we sub-consciously begin to form relationships between the images that help constitute for us, a narrative or story we can hang onto. We […]

When I received a copy of Michael Brodie’s new book Failing, I knew it would take me a while to organize my feelings towards it. Some thoughts take time to settle from a place of instinctive fondness and sentimentality, especially when you feel so strongly connected to someone’s previous work. As for many of us, my […]

I started from the earth the pirriaturi dug to bring the stone to light. I arrived at the planet, which today is kept in the cavities that give rise to the hypogeum gardens. Past and present real mingle with facts, legends, possible truths, and distant mythologies in this place.- Alessandra Calò Particular global geographies exist […]

I had not held a copy of Americans Seen until this new remastered edition, published by Nazraeli Press, landed on my doorstep a few weeks ago. I had previously come to Sage’s work through her book Animals, published in 2019 by British publishers Stanley/Barker. It was at that point that I became aware of Americans […]

Contemporary Slovenian photography, or at least the selected fragment of it was presented to the domestic public in another exhibition of the Croatian Photographic Union, this time held in KlovićeviDvori….

In 1929, German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) published a book with sixty photographs portraying the people of his time. In genre terms, one might call these photographs portraits which either…

She began at this time to describe landscape as if anything she saw was a natural phenomenon, a thing existent in itself, and she found it, this exercise, very interesting and…

Media-logged journey as transcendence of “the imminent conditions of consciousness” and the naïve art-phenomenology of “reality” Đukić versus Altamira and On Kawara Assuming reality is real, its media-trace/manifestation are also…

Where does the need to build an identity by reconstructing a family history come from? What is it in the past that is so strong that we could possibly rely…

Davor takes interest in the fringe fields of light. What does he find in them? Fringe frequencies? But there is no such a thing, cause frequencies always move on, metamorphosing…