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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.

Drawing on a myriad of sources spanning science and mythology, Małgorzata Stankiewicz weaves together text, cyanotypes and satellite images into a poetic, immersive publication that tells the complex and urgent story of rising algal bloom in the Baltic Sea.

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
The post In Florida Boys, Josh Aronson finds magic in the encounter between young men and nature appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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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The 2025 Wellcome Photography Prize highlights global health challenges through powerful images spanning domestic abuse, climate migration and microscopic disease
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The French-born artist unmakes images, intervening in their materiality to expose racist, sexist and capitalist tropes and challenge dominant Western aesthetics – all while questioning her own gaze
The post Unmapping the image: Elsa Leydier distorts photography’s authority appeared first on 1854 Photography.

A decade-long photographic record of grief, masculinity, and community in Queens, Hard Feelings traces how intimacy endures amid loss
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ABOARD Chronicles takes us on a visual journey into the fascinating anonymity of a cosmopolitan society floating at sea. The series explores the anonymity of passengers and crew members inhabiting cruise ships — floating cities where people live for limited yet asymmetrical periods of time.

Habib Abu Hussein is a Bahraini farmer. His story began when, at an early age, he bought a cow without consulting his father. When his father found out, Habib was beaten. Despite this, he insisted on raising the cow, and from that first animal the cattle later multiplied.

Foreseeable Cache is a conjured term for remembering what the soul knows. This work is a nod to the artist’s spiritual journey and a visualization of what meditation feels like. Just as water sustains life, meditation is crucial for nurturing awareness, staying grounded, and fostering personal growth.

In photography there is no universal light, only the harmony that arises between the gaze and the atmosphere encountered in a given moment. The lessons of Caravaggio and Rembrandt, that movement from shadow toward clarity, remain a silent guide in his visual formation.

Parataxis in photography rejects linear storytelling by placing images side by side without forcing them into a single narrative. Meaning emerges through juxtaposition, tension, and association, inviting the viewer to actively construct connections rather than passively receive a predefined message.

Night photography reshapes perception rather than limiting it. In these five projects, absence becomes presence, architecture becomes sculptural, landscapes turn intimate, and time itself leaves a visible trace. Darkness does not conceal. It reveals.

Josef Koudelka turned exile into a visual language. From Prague 1968 to vast panoramic landscapes, his black and white photography captures tension, memory and political fracture with uncompromising intensity.

Taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in 1932, Lunch atop a Skyscraper remains one of the most famous images in American history. This essay examines its uncertain authorship, its staged promotional context, and the historical realities of immigrant steelworkers who helped build the New York skyline during the Great Depression.

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 […]

Imago Mortis translates to “Image of Death.” It is a concept that has representations as far back as the Middle Ages, likely exploding across imagery as an extension of the mood following years of bubonic plague, which killed off nearly 1/3 to 2/3’s of Europe’s population over the course of a decade. Over the years […]

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…