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Following a group of Ukrainians who fled the war to Bratislava, this collection of portraits balance sadness and humor to explore what it’s like to start a new life over the age of 60.

What does it mean to “not work” when your days are consumed by keeping a family and household together? Olga Steinepreis answers with wit, surrealism and a camera.

L’Artiere Edizioni’s Gianluca Gamberini talks about collaboration, experimentation and the magic of transforming a body of photographs into a book with a life of its own.

Looking for the best photography podcasts? These 11 standout shows bring you closer to the photographers, ideas and stories shaping the medium today.

Created during a brief relocation from the New York City, displacement and domestic unease haunt the photographs in Alex Yudzon’s monochrome portrait of a house in rural Connecticut.

From major international festivals to independent publishing gatherings, discover more than 70 photobook fairs connecting photographers, publishers, collectors and book lovers worldwide.

Nazraeli Press founder Chris Pichler reflects on four decades of publishing, the enduring power of photobooks, and what makes a project worthy of becoming a book.

A Ukrainian artist employs an analog process to create an enduring impression of the war in his hometown, exposing viewers to the day-to-day horrors unfolding in his surroundings.

A member of the London Library, Louis Porter uses it multitude of books and grand surroundings as the hub of his photographic practice
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A new exhibition drawing on the Martin Parr Foundation’s collection of documentary images reveals an eerie weird in the everyday
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Ahead of the Good Muslim/Bad Muslim symposium, meet the artists exploring the breadth of Muslim identity through their work
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The 2025 WellcomNouf Aljowaysir erases part of archival images to illustrate the biases and cultural gaps embedded in the digital landscape captured by western AI technology
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Back with new directors after a hiccup in 2025, the Hyères International Fashion and Photography Festival includes 10 emerging image-makers, shortlisted for the chance to make a book with Éditions 7L and Atelier EXB, and stage a show at 7L, Paris
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Magdalena Wysocka and Claudio Pogo create subversive books and zines including their latest output, And Then There Was the Night, a tale of dark, vampiric mystery and occult sex
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A new show at Dulwich Picture Gallery shows a constellation of visions of American cities, drawn from the photographic greats
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The anonymous creator behind the photographers_struggle_memes Instagram account parodying life as a freelance photographer
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I am both the casualty and consequence of many dichotomies. I remain whole, yet I am simultaneously divided, torn between the very things that bind me: between the reality of adulthood and the image of it; between my need to grow roots and my desire to ; between the desire for independence and the longing for another; between the diverse and persuasive avenues of the heart; between the meaning of transience, sporadic despondency, and the search for inspiration.

In 2018, Kehrer Verlag published my black-and-white photobook, Venice Beach: The Last Days of a Bohemian Paradise, documenting the Venice Beach boardwalk between 2015 and 2017, as corporate encroachment—led by Snapchat’s occupation of dozens of buildings and the eviction of longtime fixtures such as the Freak Show—threatened to erase its bohemian soul.

Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots “The World’s Greatest Photo Game” in two photo challenge contests titled “Minimalism” and “Magnificent Animals” Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos.

Through the beauty of his hometown of Chicago, Craig S. Glass and Ambrotype Visuals invite viewers to consider the enduring presence of his subjects within our lives, society, and culture. His work depicts lasting objects and ideas situated in contemporary settings—some functioning as relics, others continuing to serve their original purpose.

In my artistic practice, photographs are not an end result but rather a starting point for new image constructions, as is also the case in my series Moods. By tearing, cutting, or fragmenting the photographic material—I work exclusively with photographs I have taken myself—I engage in an act of destruction.

Before delving into the documentary, it is important to look back at the golden age of Bangladesh, when the country is said to have had around 1,400 rivers in the 11th century. The famous Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, who arrived in Bengal in the 14th century, witnessed gigantic fleets.

Drag / Strip is kabuki—without a Japanese passport. The comparison is theatrical, not cultural: both employ spectacular costumes, stylized performance, gender transformation, and the deliberate construction of persona. But while kabuki is revered as cultural heritage, drag in America is often marginalized, misunderstood, dismissed as spectacle alone, or even condemned as perverse.

Each of my landscape projects starts with the question: “How does this place make me interpret the world, and how do I choose to see it?” Delving into the underlying visual information we sift through and choose to hold on to or dismiss, I want to understand what it is that I choose to see, rather than simply what something looks like.

I was fortunate enough to interview Steven Shearer a few years ago for his exhibition at the Brant Foundation. Their publicity team had reached out to ASX, and I was perplexed that they found us, given how most of our reviewing happens predominantly within the realm of photography, with some emphasis on painting and video […]

If you grew up in a certain period, some of your first experiences with counterculture were inspired by the genius cover artwork of albums by various punk bands, notably Black Flag, by what appeared to be a deranged cartoon columnist. I vividly remember ducking in and out of head/record shops in the Midwest growing up […]

The Balkans are very hard to describe. Though I have spent an inordinate amount of time in Greece, mostly in its capital, having traveled through the Balkans to get there, I remember a sense of something enigmatic, misty, and compelling as we traveled to and from Greece. I remember thinking about it all on a […]

Toxic typology or cultural analysis of Swiss Agro-society, you be the judges. Either way, these little uns gunna smoke these here heaters until the cows come home. There is an amazing history of smoking in photography that Lucy Sante first cottoned onto sometime in the early 2000s with her book No Smoking. Several other smoking […]

Sure, why not? Technically speaking, or at least relatively speaking, this is a kindly trove of American sculpture, itinerant in feel, something like an archaeological project that hints at Irving Penn, Avedon, and the side of Walker Evans people like to speak about ad infinitum as if we were all to marvel at the notion […]

Mycellium and fungus in general have been a renewed interest as of late. Some of this is undoubtedly narrowed or zoomed in by the current fear of ecocide most of us are experiencing as we watch wildfires decimate geographies familiar and unfamiliar, as we are forced to watch data centers spring up around natural aquifiers- […]

In these days of irreversible rancor and decimation, one cannot help but look backward through the lens of a type in fogged nostalgia for the second half of the Twentieth Century, in the years prior to 2001, also embedded fairly as a time of grave uncertainty. Notwithstanding, this was a time when the travails of […]

Street photography has always appealed to me because of its ability to visually document everyday life without a predetermined script. When I began taking a more serious interest in the…

“The modern art world can be divided into two groups: Izabella Barta and everyone else” – thus Helen Mirren, playing a television host, opens the mockumentary Waiting for the Artist,…

My first encounter with Ana Opalić’s work was not a direct encounter with her photography. As a child, I heard a story about an old maple tree in front of…

The black-and-white photograph is framed so that most of it is taken up by a high fence made of wooden slats. Our vantage point, just as that of the photographer…

I say: Whatever you do, as artists, be brave. But he says: This is not my world. Together, these catchphrases denote the content we fell into in the midst of…

Often in the evening, when everything is quiet and all the movement around me has died down, I look towards one of my living room walls. It took some time…

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…