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In her tender portrayal of desert life in Arizona, Andrea Koester records her evolving relationship to the people, plants and animals that make up its rich ecosystem.

In a search for a past left largely unphotographed, Patricia Howard looks to land, material, and process, creating a body of work shaped as much by what is missing as what remains.

In a series of cinematic images made with her aging father and young son, Anastasia Sierra creates a space for the conflicting emotions and different phases of motherhood.

Photo highlights from the extraordinary group show in New York, celebrating the work of 35 award-winning photographers from 18 countries.

A collection of photographs taken over the course of four decades bears witness to the enduring intimacy of family life and the tenderness of Emmet Gowin’s photographic gaze.

LensCulture’s New York exhibition brings together 35 photographers from around the world, each offering a distinct vision of the present moment.

Turning his attention to the largest living organism in the world, Jonah Reenders’ poetic exploration of a 10,000-year-old fungus raises questions about our connection to a shifting natural world.

In her latest project, Lisa Murray finds a visual language to record the ebb and flow of a daily life shaped and informed by her process of healing from illness and trauma.

How is Photo London run, who visits, and what are the plans for the future? BJP finds out with Sophie Parker (director), Charlotte Jansen (Discovery section curator), and Tristan Lund (Source section curator)
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Born and raised in Kathmandu, Arhant Shrestha has found himself, and comfort, through image-making
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Netherlands-based Dunya Zita examines themes of migration, home and geography by exploring her Moroccan family heritage and the SWANA region
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Jaisingh Nageswaran pushes his aesthetic boundaries using different formats to question place, community and identity in his India homeland
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Taking a gentle approach to the world, Mila Rae Sarabhai’s collages and installations suggest a decolonised photographic art and won the BJP Mention at Kyotographie this year
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Dhaka-based Shahria Sharmin’s quiet yet intense work considers South Asia’s third gender community, Rohingya refugees and family grief
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Photography flourishes in the UK capital this spring, with Photo London helping spearhead a calendar of events including Peckham 24, two book fairs and a new early outing from WePresent
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Capturing close encounters with strangers and friends, Czech-Chinese photographer Linda Zhengová offers a raw and real take on intimacy
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Margo Davis has devoted her life to photographing people from cultures different from her own, driven by a profound fascination with humanity, identity, and emotional presence.

With few examples of happy, openly queer lives to look back on before the 1970s — and even less visual evidence of them — Finley creates an alternative narrative for the uncle he never had the chance to know. It is a life story in which fluidity in sexuality and gender is accepted as the norm: a life filled with friendship, adventure, authenticity, and love.

The Upside Down is a surreal exploration of the emotional effects of lockdown on Hamilton’s family during the COVID-19 pandemic. After only a few weeks confined at home, his eight-year-old son, William, began struggling to sleep alone, overwhelmed by fears that the world was coming to an end.

Barcelona will host the first edition of MFC FEST, a new independent festival dedicated to contemporary street photography, bringing together exhibitions, workshops, photowalks, screenings, and international photographers across the city this June.

I am a conceptual landscape photographer who focuses on the environment to express my respect for nature. One of the aspects of photography that I find most compelling is understanding what drives photographers to dedicate their time and energy to particular projects, and how, over time, the creative process transforms those projects into something deeply personal.

Developed over the course of a year and a half, this photographic series investigates the Rome Termini hub as a microcosm of opposing tensions. While the lens crystallizes the frenzy of transit and the search for the platform as a metaphor for an existential pursuit, it also explores the shadowed areas of haste.

Every day, fishermen from the seaside towns of Prampram, Cape Coast, and Ada, Ghana, head out to sea, where they fish up to 40 kilometers offshore. For generations, families in these communities have fished the Atlantic Ocean. What they catch determines the livelihood of their communities and families.

In this interview, Chris Yan discusses his transition from creative direction to street photography, reflecting on the relationship between commercial and personal work, the evolution of his visual language, and the challenges of creating meaningful images in today’s photographic landscape.

Throughout the 1990s, there was a distinct emphasis on the body and its decline. Work produced during the 90s, whether from the aids crisis or the ideological shift away from the Catholic church toward an atheistic and bodily autonomy, signaled a visceral approach to photography. The documentary Vile Bodies (1999), produced by Chris Townsend and […]

There are still true eccentrics with exceptional ability out in this world, navigating the trenches of culture, unashamed to live life as art, and art as life. These characters are often characterized by a performative lifestyle that echoes the bohemian notions of 20th-century living. I revel when I stumble across their work, find innumerable reasons […]

Jonathan Meese is one of those artists compelled by an unseen, yet pernicious, towering force that many of us cannot recognize as anything else but a steam engine powered by Satan and maybe curry wurst, lager, and a cartoonish desire to paint the times as a disgraceful embodiment of human spirit, causality, scum, and victory. […]

In the ever-expanding historiography of photobook culture and history, once we escape the tedium of nationalism embedded in the ceaseless photobooks from “X” country, we can finally begin to untie genre, and to make sense of what attitudes that exceed these nationalistic behaviors have been present in the making of books throughout the 20th and […]

There has rightfully been what I might consider an epidemic of navel-gazing in American photography over the last decade. It sounds awful to say it that way, and maybe to unburden the semantic load of the navel, I might consider it inward, or soul searching, if that is more palatable. When I mention this, it […]

The life of Sarah Schumann should be much better known to the world. As a proponent of the New Women’s Movement, a talented painter, collagist, designer, and all-around life of post-war intrigue suggests a profound tie to the German movements of the mid-century, and yet, like many artists, particularly female artists of the Twentieth Century, […]

First published in 1975, Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archaeology has become a classic between categories of production. First and foremost, it is an essential book of photographs that typologically investigates the remnants of Second World War bunker armaments mostly along France’s Western coastline. These heavy structures, though short and squat, are impressive concrete-and-rebar boulders that sit […]

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…