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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.

Through images, murals, objects and videos, Rafał Milach’s new exhibition connects propaganda and protest, asking how the region’s political structures might be challenged.

This sprawling, thought-provoking photo festival interrogates the boundary-breaking power of the image as the medium approaches its 200th birthday.

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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Les Rencontres d’Arles offers a rich programme of exhibitions, but more direct comment on the parlous current state of the world is left to off-piste events and pop-ups
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“As photographers, we always have so much to prove,’ says Mitchell, “that we are not just guns for hire or documentarians of a moment – but we are creating and shaping culture through images”
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At Bishopsgate Institute in London Stefan Dickers is amassing an archive dedicated to records of queer sexual pleasures and LGBTQIA+ community engagement
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Made on a residency with the Lee Ufan Arles x Guerlain Art & Environnement Prize, Pooya Abbasian’s Soli-Sombre responds to our attempts to control nature, the bombing of Iran and – most of all – how images intersect with both. BJP caught up with him during the opening week of Les Rencontres d’Arles.
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For years, I worked the same way: I would finish one project, then rush into the next. Each one felt urgent, as though it had to happen immediately. That kept me moving for a long time. Then, a few years ago, it stopped working.

We are proud to present the outstanding photographers selected as winners and finalists of the 2026 Monochromatic Awards, a distinction that celebrates their remarkable presence and influence within the photographic world.

“It is our culture… we do not want it to end, but what can we do? Ninety-five per cent of it is already gone. We are completing our last orders, and after that we will switch professions,” said Mohammad Irfan Wani, an artisan from Kashmir who adds colourful embroidery to traditional namdas.

In contemporary photography, the surface is often treated as a passive container of reality. In Drawing Fish, however, the liquid medium operates as an active, fluctuating canvas—a dynamic force that refracts, bends, and transforms light.

Different People, Different Stories is an ongoing documentary photography project that explores the lives of ordinary people whose stories often remain unseen despite their essential role in society. The project is built on a simple yet powerful belief: every person has a story worth telling.

Published in the print edition of Dodho Magazine #36, Gregor Kallina’s Scar Place explores the hidden cost of Europe’s Green Deal through a powerful documentary project on mining, the Sámi people, and the fragile balance between environmental ambition and cultural survival.

It is undeniable that, now more than ever, our future is filled with uncertainty. Even in this context, as always, there are at least two ways of approaching the present in our society. The first, certainly the loudest and therefore the one that appears to enjoy the broadest consensus, is based on arrogant individualism and the law of the strongest.

For more than three decades, my camera has taken me across oceans and deserts, beneath the surface of the sea, and into some of the world’s most remote landscapes. Whether documenting marine life, exploring fragile ecosystems, or working with cultures shaped by their environments, I have always been drawn to places where nature remains largely untamed.

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 […]

Art School is a process. It is one of those experiences in life that feels uncertain, tempting, and usually administered to those who wander, who are trying to fidn their footing in life, unashamed to be creative, yet unaware of what it will take to make a career in the arts feasible should they continue. […]

Victor Man’s painting presents a miasmic world in which death is presided over by the elegant souls of the living, and the living, in turn, are reminded of their duty as constant eulogizers of what has been lost. Playing technically off a nod to the kitsch black velvet paintings of the 1960s and to the […]

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…

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…