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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
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A decade-long photographic record of grief, masculinity, and community in Queens, Hard Feelings traces how intimacy endures amid loss
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His fixer, Dagmidmaa, met him and a few ragtag travellers he had joined en route from Beijing on the platform as the Trans Siberian train pulled into Ulaanbaatar station. It was 1992, at the start of his photography career.

“Piedras sobre mi tejado” (Stones on My Roof) does not merely present images; it exposes a fracture. Through intervened photography, Charlie Fernández Pérez ventures into the unstable territory of youth mental health. For those who experience mental health struggles, two selves coexist in constant conflict.

On the eve of the bicentennial of photography, Días Tras Días asserts itself as a contemporary act of resistance and creation, reaffirming the relevance of analog photography in a world saturated with ephemeral digital images.

Visible from the artists’ home in the hills above Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Bay coastline reveals an otherworldly mosaic, a fractured geometry of vivid reds, oranges, and whites as far as the eye can see. The scene, extending over 40,000 acres, is the unintended art of 150 years of industrial scale salt mining.

Discover how Ansel Adams’ early training as a pianist shaped his disciplined approach to landscape photography, transforming technique, perception, and the way we understand the relationship between light, nature, and photographic vision.

Point North was developed during Simone Darcy’s residency at the NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, northwestern Iceland, and through an extended road trip around the country with her two children.

This body of work is a visual exploration of everyday life and tradition in Guatemala. Through these images, he seeks to reveal the resilience, dignity, and warmth of the people and communities he encounters.

How to Draw a Perfect Circle is about perfection, control, and the grip they have had on her life. She grew up as the classic “good girl” — successful, smart, pretty, and kind — yet also a people pleaser who followed every rule, voiced no opinions, and ignored her own needs.

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 […]

I was sent this lovely book about the choreography and performance art of Hermann Heisig by Spector Books, one of Germany’s finest publishers, at the suggestion of their team. I tend to value suggestions like these from a publisher known for a wide output, as they offer a thoughtful dialogue between parties. I get to […]

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…