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With a delicate eye for detail, color and texture, French photographer Vasantha Yogananthan’s epic interpretation of the “Ramayana” takes a painterly precision to the medium of photography.

Spanning four decades of Nigel Shafran’s personal journals, this beautiful publication interweaves his life and art to chronicle the British photographer’s loving devotion to the everyday.

In the face of growing anti-immigrant sentiment, Sachiko Saito explores the struggles of the Kurdish community of Japan — building a nuanced portrayal of her neighbors as they grapple with identity, exclusion, and cultural survival.

Bridging the past and the present, Eirini Androulaki takes the suicide letter of a Greek teacher who lived on the island of Folegandros in the early 20th century to explore themes of illness, social stigma and historical narratives.

By presenting these subjects in black and white, this series of portraits seeks to reveal the quieter side of these performers stripped of their colorful costumes and over-the-top personas.

In this brave account of a family navigating breast cancer, Anna and Jordan Rathkopf turn the camera on each other. Capturing resilience, vulnerability and the tenderness of caregiving, the book offers an honest look at how chronic illness impacts all areas of life.

This new photobook blends documentary style with magic realism, challenging perceptions of Colombia often tied to drug trafficking, and revealing complex narratives beneath surface appearances.

As an only child born under China’s one-child policy, Zihan Wei uses a snapshot aesthetic to explore photography as a language of intimacy and connection to forge a new relationship with her parents.

The Spirit of Lagos showcases the vibrant portraits captured by Abi Morocco Photos, highlighting a cultural transformation during Nigeria’s post-oil boom era, Emma Russell finds
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The charitable print sale’s co-founder, Isabella van Merle, reveals to Sarah Moroz the stories behind some of the images featured this year
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Holding Space at 10 14 gallery features several emerging artists who shine a light on interdependence in global communities
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The Iraqi-Iranian artist tells BJP about the story behind her recent project ahead of the 7th edition of the annual Jameel Prize
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Back in the Grand Palais, Paris Photo 2024 was a spectacular return to form in and around the main fair
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This year’s cohort covers projects from Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan and more, bearing witness to global atrocities and sharing marginalised stories of resilience
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The photographer’s new book A Sea Apart explores migratory distance and the memories that come with yearning for a homeland
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Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography spans the pioneering fashion photographer’s career across several continents, whose work often surprised and challenged her own sensibilities
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Nikita Teryoshin returns with another great book in 2024. The German artist continues his typological studies following his award-winning long-term project Nothing Personal (GOST) on private arms dealing fairs. Nikita is the master of working on short—and long-term projects that keep him moving. This strategy is excellent because it allows short-term ideas to become books, filling […]

Rodrigo Valenzuela has been producing incredible work for the past couple of years. I was lucky enough to get a copy of his last book, Journeyman, published by Mousse Publishing. It was my introduction to the Chilean-American’s work, and from that point, we managed to have an extensive conversation about his work for Nearest Truth. […]

Fièvre by Lorenzo Castore is a slight wormhole of a photobook. One starts appreciating it through one side of the vacuum and comes out the other side, thinking through it differently. That is not to suggest that it is not consistent; it is. With Castore, I am accustomed to the romantic nature of his photographs. […]

Within the context of death, I have spoken about, and I am sure that I am not alone in this, the strange feeling when a person, persona, and life slip from the realm of the personable to the world of an object, a thing, a husk, though still loved, ultimately lacking the anima necessary to […]

With the publication of Sergio Purtell’s first book, Love’s Labor (Stanley/Barker, 2020), I found myself thinking that portraiture has a very uncanny way of reaching people to tap into their emotions and nerves, and all of this is done without knowing the person in the photograph. I have spent much of my mid-years avoiding portraiture […]

In 2019, at Fotofestiwal Łódź, I curated an exhibition with my vernacular collection of photography called American Revelations, which dealt with the concept of early twentieth-century America through the Second World War. It was a time in which the country was in flux, still finding its identity as immigrants from Europe and elsewhere made their […]

Mikkiko Hara   by José Bértolo   There is no doubt that Japanese photography is fashionable right now. But what do we mean when we say, “Japanese photography is fashionable right now”? Which Japanese photography are we referring to? What vision of Japanese photography do we have?   For a long time in the West, […]

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. The curator, Sandra KrižićBoban moves the focus from the domestic art scene to the neighboring scene, the Slovenian scene, creating a collaboration with Gallery Fotografija…

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 show individual persons, or several of them set in the same environment. It is clear that each person is aware that he / she is…

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 it finally led her to the later series of Operas and Plays. I am trying to be as commonplace as I can be, she used to…

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 real. The significance of the media-projected reality uncovers itself through strengthening the awareness of necessity to transcend the realistic ideology frame. It is exactly this…

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 on in an attempt to define our own existence?  Are we looking for an explanation? For reasons? Justification?  Or are we simply denying our own…

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 from visible to invisible, from light to sound and, further down to the oscillations that make up the universe. The given possibilities of our perceptions…