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Shortlisted for the “Storm” cycle of the Prix Pictet, Camille Seaman reflects on chasing supercells and icebergs, and the power of photography, as she documents fleeting reality.

Training his camera on in-between moments and gestures, David Masoko’s tender take on street photography explores the tensions between visibility and privacy in an image-saturated world.

In this LensCulture interview, Torrance York reflects on how photography became a tool for understanding, acceptance, and connection after her Parkinson’s diagnosis.

85-year-old actor Ian McKellen let his hair and beard grow out to play the ionic role of Shakespeare’s Falstaff — after the final performance, he finally stepped out of character and back to himself.

In their first artistic collaboration together, Scott Offen and his wife Grace explore ageing, gender and creativity through a seven-year portrait project shaped by intimacy and play.

Charting the history of children’s photobooks, the exhibition “L is for Look” takes the viewer on an interactive adventure into the dynamic and responsive world of storytelling made possible by combining photographs and words.

A deeply human collection of street portraits from Washington Square Park, revealing the quiet vulnerability behind bold self-expression.

One of America’s leading photographers offers his insights about making great photographic portraits.

Opening 6 March at The Photographer’s Gallery, this year’s lens-based artists feature collaborative projects, installations, video and sound pieces, and experimental conceptual photography
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At CPW Kingston, the decorated Vietnamese-American writer presents Sống, a photographic archive built over two decades never initially intended to be viewed publicly
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A boutique event in an arty, post-industrial city, Leipzig Photobook Festival takes a punky approach to publishing
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Laetitia Vançon’s The Other Battlefields and Giya Makondo-Wills’ New Scramble will be exhibited at 10 14 Gallery and PhotoIreland, alongside single image winners including Ana Flores, Esther N’sapu, Ada Marino and Karen Paz Gonzalez
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Born and brought up in the UK but returning to his parents’ homeland to make and show new work, Kalpesh Lathigra sidesteps the ‘diaspora dialogue’, says curator Veeranganakumari Solanki
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VIVONO brings together a range of artists to examine the campaigns and communities of an overlooked era, from the 80s and 90s
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Travelling Florida with his sitters, the photographer builds Arcadian portraits that recast masculinity as fluid, gentle and communal
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In Social Season, Miranda Barnes’ debut photo book published by MACK’s imprint Important Flowers, cotillions are spaces where teens tenderly display pride and aspiration
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Her geography studies sparked her photographic interest in the natural canyon and desert landscapes of the southwestern United States, as well as in the open cast lignite mining landscapes of Germany.

Dimma Brume Mist was born from over two hundred binders containing thousands of contact sheets and negatives. Over the course of five years, JH Engström periodically returned to this archive, mining deep within the overlooked to search for the common thread running throughout his 35 years of image making.

“Landscape is no longer a matter of ‘view,’ but of living.” François Jullien, Living from the Landscape
Omichli is a monochrome photographic series in which the mountain reveals itself as a territory outside of time, on the threshold of another reality.

The wheel is one of humanity’s oldest inventions. Most of us depend on wheels in one way or another. In this project, Christer Björkman documents wheels of various kinds and the people who use them.

The photographs from this series were taken in a small windswept seaside town called Castro, which sits on the Adriatic coast in the southernmost part of Puglia, the southernmost region of Italy. Castro lies only 20 miles north of the very tip of Puglia, where the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea converge.

I have watched 550 Korean dramas, and I have probably cried at some point during every one. Perhaps even more amazing to me is the fact that I am far from alone. Since South Korea opened itself to the global market in the late 1980s, its popular culture has taken the world by storm.

Since ancient times, human beings have shaped the land, building civilizations and inscribing memory into territory. Yet what appears solid is never stable. Land is constantly weathered, fractured, and reformed. Stability is an illusion sustained by scale. Edge – North Atlantic Ocean begins at the shifting boundary between sea and land. The shoreline is not a fixed line but a site of continual transformation. Stones collide, fragment, and return to the ocean as mineral residue….

In our poppy marketing culture, things are brightly imbued with color — a peppy pink duster, an aqua loofah, and red Swedish Fish. Collaborators Lois Bielefeld and Keturah Michael are interested in how objects transcend their human-attributed use value and assert their own agency, or “thing-power.”

I was never accustomed to the tall tales of muchroom pickling that pervade Europe. Mildly aware of the phenomenon back in Wisconsin around the spring movements of the morel mushroom picking season, born to a family of hunters, I did not grasp the essential nature of mushrooms and fungi until quite late in my lifetime. […]

So, I’ve never watched a single one of Lanthimos’s films. Maybe this will change in the near future. Dunno. I am aware that I do not know a Dog’s tooth from a Frog’s gooch. In order to subvert my programming, which some of my more learned friends insisting that I am already in denial over […]

Agony in the Garden. Parables. Metaphors. Incisive mythology within the realms of the contemporary political landscape of Europe in the 2020s. To reduce Lua Ribeira’s work to any single motif is an exercise in futility. Instead, the analysis must stem from the aggregate means of its parts. Of course, one cannot simply resign the work […]

I am writing this dispatch from Athens, Greece, where we are currently on the third day of shooting. The following work is part of the Nearest Truth Workshops, The Dailies workshop, which includes instructors Bryan Schutmaat, Matthew Genitempo, and Brad Feuerhelm. The workshop outline is detailed as follows: Dailies is a newspaper term for a daily […]

  Sometimes, all it takes is a corner and a series of evaporating shadows to serve as a conduit to greater understanding of the built environment and all the human activity that has transpired within it. In studying Charles Johnstone’s court photography, what is exceptionally evident is the simplicity with which the rendering of space […]

I am writing this dispatch from Athens, Greece, where we are currently on the second day of shooting. The following work is part of the Nearest Truth Workshops, The Dailies workshop, which includes instructors Bryan Schutmaat, Matthew Genitempo, and Brad Feuerhelm. The workshop outline is detailed as follows: Dailies is a newspaper term for a daily […]

Day 1, February 4, 2026   I am writing this dispatch from Athens, Greece, where we are currently on the second day of shooting. The following work is part of the Nearest Truth Workshops, The Dailies workshop, which includes instructors Bryan Schutmaat, Matthew Genitempo, and Brad Feuerhelm. The workshop outline is detailed as follows: Dailies is […]

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…

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…