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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.

Inside the secret cave settlements of the all-female Kurdish fighters of the Women’s Protection Forces (HPJ), solidarity, care and daily ritual sit alongside the stark reality of revolution.

Turning the lens on his adopted country, Ashkan Shabani embarks on a long-term investigation into the rise and normalization of far-right extremism in Germany.

Uncompromising, fiercely independent, and deeply personal, Blagovesta Semkova’s photography transforms a lifetime of adversity into images of remarkable emotional power.

Along East London’s River Lea, which was once a vibrant industrial artery, Mattia Corato traces a landscape where wild nature, urban history and unconventional ways of living quietly converge.

Horses, dust, strength and spectacle collide in Todd Antony’s visceral portrait of Buzkashi, Tajikistan’s ancient and fiercely contested national tradition.

Twenty international artists working with archival images come together to form a polyphonic reinterpretation of history, drawing out stories of belonging and identity that resist colonial-era narratives.

For Etienne Perrone, the city changes its nature after dark. Streets, parking lots, staircases and anonymous urban corners become something more than physical locations—they become psychological spaces where reality and imagination quietly overlap. Working at the intersection of photography, cinema and visual art, the Marseille-based photographer transforms familiar environments into mysterious stages, using light not simply to illuminate what already exists, but to reveal what usually remains invisible. Built over years of solitary night walks…

Icecaps and glaciers, spouting geysers and steaming solfataras, volcanoes, raging rivers, magnificent waterfalls and razorbills. Iceland’s many geological wonders are captured by Fokion Zissiadis’ lens with a deliberate, watchful and penetrating gaze, revealing the distinctive identity of this land.

Discover Jerusalemites by Sharon Gabay, a trilingual photobook capturing fifteen years of everyday life and human encounters on the streets of Jerusalem.

After the fall of Omar al-Bashir in 2019, Sudan briefly embodied the hope of a democratic rebirth driven by a powerful civilian revolution. Protesters demanded justice, civilian rule and an end to decades of military domination. But this promise was steadily undermined from within.

The Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) returns from October 16, 2026, to January 31, 2027, for its tenth edition.

LA MEMORIA IMMAGINATA. What the Frame Refused: Family Albums, Flea Markets, and the Photographs No One Is Left to Claim

There is history, and there is geography. The former is a matter of passing time. It tells us about events of greater or lesser importance, set in motion and experienced by human beings. The latter is a matter of permanence. It describes the world through what it appears to offer as enduring.

“Fard” began in June 2024, with the urgent desire to return to my native village (Plombières, Belgium) to recharge, to fill up on “emptiness” after agitated weeks spent in the city. Armed with my camera and, above all, my flash, I roamed the countryside searching for a subject to document.

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 […]

I was fortunate enough to interview Steven Shearer a few years ago for his exhibition at the Brant Foundation. Their publicity team had reached out to ASX, and I was perplexed that they found us, given how most of our reviewing happens predominantly within the realm of photography, with some emphasis on painting and video […]

If you grew up in a certain period, some of your first experiences with counterculture were inspired by the genius cover artwork of albums by various punk bands, notably Black Flag, by what appeared to be a deranged cartoon columnist. I vividly remember ducking in and out of head/record shops in the Midwest growing up […]

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…