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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.

Walking Miami Beach, Rodrigo Koraicho collects moments full of life to weave together a tapestry of humanity—equal parts joyful, intimate, alienating, and absurd—under the hot Florida sun.

Photographer Pelin Guven invites the viewer to take a closer look at tiny bursts of color and the overlooked details of daily life in Switzerland where creativity sprouts in response to order and convention.

LensCulture’s 2025 list of favorite photobooks highlights more than 50 diverse titles showcasing the personal favorites of experts around the world.

Honouring the photographer’s legacy two decades on, a year-long programme of exhibitions, publications and events has been announced, alongside its 2026 fellows, legacy acquisition recipients and the inaugural Fellowship in Music
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Through light leaks, natural dyes and ancestral Andean knowledge, the artist’s Alquimia Textil becomes a meditation on chance, craft and the quiet resistance embedded in traditional textile practices
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Walking Along the Parramatta River resists romantic depictions of an industrialised area whilst depicting the diversity of life along its banks
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Falmouth University, drawing on more than 120 years of art and design teaching, offers an online Photography MA that addresses the urgent questions facing image‑makers today.
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Delving into the jaw-dropping global spend of the US Department of Defense, Edmund Clark and Crofton Black have delivered a portrait of a country that also speaks about everywhere else
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The international festival set in Dhaka reemerges for its 25th anniversary with a staggering cast of lens-based artists from around the world
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In Beneath the Surface Skin, chemigrams made with Arctic seawater and glacial portraits become letters across loss
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Playing with online displays of bodies, a new generation of artists is exploring the freedoms and restrictions of the digital world
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Jeff Schewe is one of the featured authors in Issue 35 of Dodho Magazine. His work is articulated through a deep relationship between thought, experience, and form, where photography operates as a language that goes beyond the visual to become a way of analyzing and understanding the world.

Over time, our perspective on a photograph evolves; it is transformed by our ongoing life experiences and social and environmental changes. Often, a sense of nostalgia or sentimental longing filters our memory of that captured moment in time.

Through deep-sky astrophotography, Carlotta Roda explores the universe as a space of continuous transformation, where time, matter, and perception exist beyond the human scale. Nebulae, galaxies, and stellar formations are approached not as distant scientific objects, but as symbolic landscapes shaped by processes unfolding across immense temporal and spatial dimensions.

For twenty years before becoming a photographer, I lived inside the logic of supply chains. My professional life was defined by throughput, flow, and process optimization, always seeking the invisible bottlenecks that slow things down or cause systems to fail.

Five photographers use self-portraiture as a working method rather than self-display, exploring identity through performance, memory, embodiment, and confrontation. Their projects reveal the self as unstable, layered, and continuously negotiated.

Lisette Model challenged photography’s comfort zones by asserting the right to look without asking permission. Her confrontational images expose the ethics of visibility, proximity, and power, redefining honesty in photographic practice.

Irving Penn used neutral backgrounds not as passive spaces, but as tools of pressure and control. By stripping subjects of context, his portraits expose vulnerability, power dynamics, and the silent psychological violence embedded in photographic neutrality.

Medium format photography is not about aesthetics or resolution, but about mindset. By slowing down the photographic process, medium format teaches photographers to think with intention, responsibility, and clarity, transforming photography from a reactive act into a conscious decision.

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 […]

Contact sheets offer an incredible look at the back end of a photographer’s process. Often hidden, they also present a slight enigma in that they also show all manner of warts. Every photographer is aware of the personal nature of contact sheets, which are used as a work tool to decide which images may eventually […]

This is certainly one of the most misleading photobooks that I have seen in some time, despite being a fan of the artist’s previous book. What appears on the outside as a simple reading of America’s vernacular signage is, in fact, a kind of premonition, or perhaps an acknowledgement of where things stand along the […]

Nan Goldin, This Will Not End Well, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan 11.10.2025 – 15.02.2026 By Anna Zimm & Sophie Zimm — There aren’t many exhibitions that would make me travel to another city, but in mid-October Nan Goldin’s This Will Not End Well opened at the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan—an exhibition my sister Sophie and I […]

I first encountered the visceral photographs of Lucile Boiron a few years ago when I bought a copy of her book Mise en Pièces, also published by Belgian publisher Art Paper Editions (APE), like her new book Bouche. I remember being very excited about the book, as it reminded me of the visceral tendencies in […]

Amongst the wreckage of the past fifty years, one of the fundamental erasures, or perhaps the co-opting, of our diversity of ideological thought has come from the slow decline of subculture, transgression, and punk rock values. During my lifetime, I have seen anti-authority ideologies reconstituted into a hot-topic t-shirt carousel. It plays out, when it […]

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…