2025-02-16
Lens Culture

Once a Slag… Girlhood in the Smartphone Era

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.

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Lens Culture

A Difficulty is a Light

In this lyrical collection of poems and photographs, Rebecca Norris Webb charts her journey through the loss of her brother as she follows the migration of birds through the American South and Northern France.

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Lens Culture

Celebrating 20 Years of LensCulture

A look back at some favorite photography, writing, and interviews from the first 20 years of LensCulture — pure inspiration from some of the best photographers on the planet!

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Lens Culture

Remembering John Blakemore, An Appreciation

John Blakemore (1936-2025), was an influential British photographer and teacher, renowned for his landscape and still-life photography.

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Lens Culture

Plates I-XXXI

Drawing inspiration from the Dutch Golden Age, Lia Darjes’ theatrical still lifes capture her furry neighbors feasting at her garden dining table at night. “Plates I-XXXI” is a surreal glimpse into the secret world of animals that unfolds in our absence.

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Lens Culture

Art Test 1

Where can I get some?

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Lens Culture

Finalmente posso andare (Finally I can go)

Triggered by personal loss during the pandemic, Italian photographer Cinzia Laliscia’s soft and enigmatic images revisits her family legacy to pay tribute to the rhythms of rural life at her grandparents’ home in Loreno.

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Lens Culture

Advice for Young Artists

Alec Soth’s new book avoids straightforward answers. Set against the playful, chaotic backdrop of art schools, it delves into creativity, self-discovery, and the existential aspects of becoming—and remaining—an artist.

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British Journal of Photography
When asking what the working-class looks like today, Johny Pitts resists cliche

When asking what the working-class looks like today, Johny Pitts resists cliche

The Afropean author is back with a touring show, curating working-class photographers to present an alternative reading of class aesthetics
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British Journal of Photography
Welcome to the Pleasuredome

Welcome to the Pleasuredome

Creative duo and club stalwarts Martin Green and James Lawler take a utopian yet realistic look at 90s Queer nights in Britain, at Open Eye Gallery
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British Journal of Photography
Thero Makepe navigates political struggles and family history across Botswana and South Africa

Thero Makepe navigates political struggles and family history across Botswana and South Africa

A rich family history of political struggle and personal responsibility, diverging paths and roads left untrod inform Thero Makepe’s We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here
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British Journal of Photography
Revisiting Weegee in an epoch where image and illusion is king

Revisiting Weegee in an epoch where image and illusion is king

Years before social media, the photographer was already critical of our obsession with celebrity culture and mocked the idea of spectacle
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British Journal of Photography
Zheng Andong questions the colonial legacy of natural history’s nomenclature

Zheng Andong questions the colonial legacy of natural history’s nomenclature

How to Unname a Tree dismantles the notion of trees as static symbols, revealing them as beings that blur the lines of identity
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British Journal of Photography
In the Studio with Adama Jalloh

In the Studio with Adama Jalloh

Nearly a decade after winning BJP’s Breakthrough Single Image award, Adama Jalloh has become a trusted portrait photographer
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British Journal of Photography
Documenting the age-old conservation traditions of Socotra

Documenting the age-old conservation traditions of Socotra

Italian-Bosnian Rosa Franjic and her partner travelled to the Yemeni island to meet friends working on preserving its staggering biodiversity
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British Journal of Photography
OpenWalls returns to explore tradition in the face of a changing world

OpenWalls returns to explore tradition in the face of a changing world

In an award held in partnership with WePresent, four photographers will be chosen to exhibit at Galerie Huit Arles in July alongside Les Rencontres d’Arles. Enter now.
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Magnum Photos

Magnum Chronicles: The Power of Collective Storytelling

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Remembering Constantine Manos (1934–2025)

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Syria: The Aftermath of December 8

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Damascus in the Days Following the Fall of Al-Assad

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Beyond the Silence, an Exhibition in Mexico

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Matt Black’s American Artifacts

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Beyond the Silence, An Exhibition in Kazakhstan

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Magnum Photos

Like a Blood Stain on a Handkerchief

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ASBX
Sofia Masini – The body is a revelation as is landscape

Sofia Masini – The body is a revelation as is landscape

Published by Witty Books in 2023 and designed by Giulia Boccarossa, Sofia Masini’s first photobook The body is a revelation as is landscape experiments with reconfigurations of the artist’s body and of the world it inhabits. Through a series of images in which both body and landscape are cut, disassembled, xeroxed, crumpled, recycled, multiplied and […]

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ASBX
Lúa Ribeira – Subida Al Cielo

Lúa Ribeira – Subida Al Cielo

“Of course they will find it difficult to situate them historically. They must feel free to see them as images that evoke something in their own minds. They’re illustrations inspired by a theme, actually, rather than depictions of a particular story, I think.” – Paula Rego Though she was speaking about her own images, Paula […]

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ASBX
Katerina Angelopoulou – Diary Entry #2: The Fumes of Mars

Katerina Angelopoulou – Diary Entry #2: The Fumes of Mars

23rd July 2018 16:41pm: First Report of the fire in Ntaou 16:50pm: First Fire Helicopter is directed to the area with ETA 17:10 17:30pm: One Helicopter operates on the fire 18:00 -18:30pm: No Helicopter operates in the area. 18:06pm: The fire enters the village of Neos Voutzas. 18:20pm: The fire crosses the Marathonos Avenue. 18:25pm: The […]

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ASBX
Fumitsugu Takedo – Ambience Decay

Fumitsugu Takedo – Ambience Decay

  I feel slightly guilty posting this as I know by the time you read it, that it will be improbable you will find a copy as there are only 50 copies in the edition. Hopefully, it will inspire the publisher Photobook Daydream Editions to consider publishing more, as Fumitsugu Takedo’s Ambience Decay is one […]

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ASBX
Katerina Angelopoulou – Diary Entry #1: The Fumes of Mars

Katerina Angelopoulou – Diary Entry #1: The Fumes of Mars

    DIARY ENTRY  25/01/2025 Today I went back to writing. There has been very little time to work on the text accompanying the book in the last few months. Re read notes, retracing steps – yet again. I close my eyes and everything is there in front of me. The only thing I do not remember […]

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ASBX
Cai Dongdong – Passing By Beijing

Cai Dongdong – Passing By Beijing

I am previously familiar with Berlin-based Chinese artist Cai Dongdong through his interest in re-purposing vernacular photography. A Game of Photos and Left Right, his previous two books present a playful atmosphere of interrogating the past, playing with the physical artifacts of the photographic medium. In some ways, with A Game of Photos, one is […]

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ASBX
Mårten Lange – The Palace

Mårten Lange – The Palace

Mårten Lange’s The Palace, KARL, 2024, is a brilliant continuation of his last self-published photobook, Threshold (KARL, 2023). The two books share a systematic approach to addressing iterations of architecture that morph and suggest, among other things, portals to history and the domestic interior as ephemeral markers, respectively. The shift from his previous books, Ghost […]

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
The Most Beautiful Place in the World

The Most Beautiful Place in the World

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…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Faces of Time

Faces of Time

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…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Somewhere

Somewhere

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…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Media-logged journey– pleasures and asceticism of transcendence

Media-logged journey– pleasures and asceticism of transcendence

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…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Constructing an identity through the family archive  / Archon of the family heritage

Constructing an identity through the family archive / Archon of the family heritage

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…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Davor Sanvincenti’s Fringe Oscillations

Davor Sanvincenti’s Fringe Oscillations

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…

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