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Reflecting on a 50 year-long career in social documentary, Ken Light considers how photographs made in the urgency of the present gain new meaning with time, becoming invaluable records of the worlds we once inhabited.

From bold new discoveries to iconic masterpieces, Paris Photo 2026 promises a dazzling celebration of photography—here are 28 images that caught our eye.

A single match can destroy an entire forest—and in Mehrdad Fathi’s haunting cyanotypes, the humble matchbox becomes a vessel for remembering what we stand to lose.

Photographing the outskirts of his home city of Wuhai, China, Yue Sun captures a coal city in decline and a young generation caught in a state of uncertainty—their lives muted.

Embarking on a poetic drift through his older work, Bouwe Brouwer builds a conversation between photographs from different corners of his archive that come together around the theme of ‘escape.’

In search of a feeling of youth she encountered online, Avery Norman constructs an imaginary girlhood informed by a combination of cultural iconography, Internet nostalgia, and personal memory.

Ruben Lundgren explores his journey between the two practices of photography and curating—from his career in China to his first show as Senior Curator of the Nederlands Fotomuseum highlighting the photographic trends of the Dutch scene today.

In conversation beside the creek he photographed for more than a decade, Caleb Stein reflects on trust, masculinity, community, and the rewards of looking closely at one place over time.

Barbara Hazen discusses photography, memory, and alternative printing processes, sharing the story behind Time Piece and her Dodho Issue 38 cover.

In May 1989, I travelled to Beijing as a young photojournalist, having recently completed my studies at the London College of Printing. It was my first major photographic assignment, although nobody had commissioned me to go.

I started to question and investigate the impact that humanity is having on our planet after relocating from an urban to a rural location. This move fostered within me a profound bond with nature, its cycles and its guiding forces, as well as an understanding of its strength and power.

Generation of War 2024 – Ongoing. Across Ukraine, national-patriotic education camps have quietly become part of the everyday landscape of adolescence. In these official and volunteer-run spaces, military training, civic education, and collective rituals merge into a single rhythm.

Second Nature documents the cell towers disguised as trees that populate Southern California’s landscape. Taking the form of palms, pines, and other artificial vegetation, these structures conceal telecommunications equipment beneath manufactured bark and synthetic foliage

In 2020, I was photographing a company in London that specialises in large-format luxury printing. As my work usually lives online, seeing photographs printed at a large scale for commercial use was a thrill. I decided there and then that I needed a project of my own that would end up on paper.

We are pleased to officially announce the winners and finalists of the prestigious Color Awards, celebrating the finest talents in photography. This recognition represents a hallmark of excellence in the field.

When I returned to Iceland in 2024, I became increasingly aware of how profoundly the experience of many well-known natural sites had changed. What had once seemed open and almost boundless was now often organised through paths, viewing platforms, parking areas and carefully directed routes.

In general, most photography can and often does function as propaganda. It can do so through its design and contextual arrangement, but its meaning depends largely on the intention behind its placement, which shifts over time and can be shaped toward different goals depending on who uses and broadcasts it and for what purpose. This […]

Significantly, Graham MacIndoe has a series of books about his early life and an incredible autobiography, Chancers, co-written with Susan Stellin, which I have read and can recommend; together, they set up his recently published book, Always Good, from Lull Books. Looking back at the first book I encountered by Graham, All the Young Punks, […]

This book is something of an outlier in the photobook legacy of eminent British artist Jem Southam, whom I usually associate with a type nouveau pastoral, a celluloid Constable traipsing the foggy lands of Ole Blighty. His notable contributions to the photobook include The Moth, Four Winters, The Pond at Upton Pyne, Rockfalls and Ponds, […]

As a species, we have become addicted to the spectacle of political theater. Events are organized to engage our sensitive minds in the furor of ideological division, and arguments become tribal tools meant to manifest the supposed will of Western democracy, though little of this exhibitionism uncovers the true vessel of political life, fueled by […]

The idea of the outsider is fascinating in photography. On one hand, the audience for photography loves a surprise story, one that challenges the canon and one that appears to materialize out of nowhere, without precedent, and shaped from the margins of conventions. What is fascinating is the tendency to think such things are less […]

To you, Beni Bischof may be a monster. To others, he is an unofficial unsyndicated scribe for the madness of the last half-century of consumer hell that we wade through. They drew first Blood; it wasn’t me. To give context to Bishof’s sprawling and prolific practice from the outside would be an exercise in deep-fried […]

In full declaration, as a fan of all parties involved, I hereby cannot deny my overwhelming urge to state that this book, in the canon of Raymond J. Meeks Esq., is hitherto unnecessary, but welcomed nonetheless. It is a compilation of misses, outtakes, and the unloved and weeded-out, minus one image of an alabaster girl […]

Street photography has always appealed to me because of its ability to visually document everyday life without a predetermined script. When I began taking a more serious interest in the…

“The modern art world can be divided into two groups: Izabella Barta and everyone else” – thus Helen Mirren, playing a television host, opens the mockumentary Waiting for the Artist,…

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…