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Born in Jerusalem and brought up in Detroit, Maen Hammad feels a responsibility to document life in Palestine – from skater culture to prisoner releases
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Set up by industry insiders, Offspring Photo Meet is a chance to get your portfolio in front of key people and to join a photo community.
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Drawing on Chinese art and culture, plus other traditions outside European modernity, Tianyu Wang is questioning the medium of photography and its take on the world
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Established in a picture-perfect historical city, Kyotographie photofestival pushes the boundaries on what can be shown, and for its 14th edition spotlights work made in South Africa
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The new exhibition at Zurich’s Museum Rietberg highlights artists working with historic images
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The former director at Claire de Rouen and curator of the Alaïa Bookstore, Flora Gau tells BJP about her new labour of love
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The British-born Pakistani photographer takes inspiration from her life between cultures to create family and community portraits
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In Accra, artists, archivists, collectors, and scholars gathered for an inaugural symposium that asked how to preserve Black photographic history and what care truly looks like
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Her photographic practice is shaped by interests in history and biography and, from there, develops through her experiences, observations, and sense of spontaneity, curiosity, and intuition. Over the years, her work has focused on people and places, sometimes close and intimate and sometimes more distant, but always evolving from her personal journeys and quiet exploration.

In the space suspended between thought and its manifestation, ‘Printed Dreams’ take shape not as reflections of reality, but as architectures of the invisible. This is a study that explores the very nature of perception: what remains of us when the world fragments and light decides to break down into new emotional alphabets?

Settled between forests, fields, and lakes, this work unfolds from within a life in transition, where watching children grow becomes inseparable from observing the passing of time itself. Doubt and time operate not as obstacles but as essential tools, shaping a way of seeing that moves between silence and language, between what can be named and what resists articulation

Duality has always been at the center of my curiosity. Not in the obvious sense of opposites, but in the quiet tension between states of being—the moment something exists fully, and the moment it begins to transform.

The Fulani of West Africa are among the largest nomadic groups in the world. Traditionally, they moved with their herds across more than ten countries in West and Central Africa. In their society, cattle are central, shaping wealth, status, and way of life.

Diasporic Sights is the second volume in the London Street Chronicles series, an ongoing photographic exploration of everyday life in London. This chapter focuses on the presence and lived experiences of Black British communities within the city.

Executive Order: Images of 1970s Corporate America is a collection of 50 black-and-white silver gelatin photographs and the first of three monographs she has published with Daylight Books. It was launched in 2018, when it garnered significant attention.

Harajuku in Los Angeles: Portraits in Place is a long-term portrait series celebrating Harajuku-inspired individuals living in Southern California. Focusing on home, work, and play, the series examines the spatial dimensions of self-presentation.

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 […]

I was never accustomed to the tall tales of muchroom pickling that pervade Europe. Mildly aware of the phenomenon back in Wisconsin around the spring movements of the morel mushroom picking season, born to a family of hunters, I did not grasp the essential nature of mushrooms and fungi until quite late in my lifetime. […]

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 […]

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…