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Camera in hand, Swiss photographer Matthias Forster sets out to find moments of tension, surprise, and humor in the landscapes we often overlook.

Through layered composites of landscapes, negatives, and organic forms, Stephanie O’Connor creates chimeric images that blur boundaries between self and other — capturing the uncanny sensations of pregnancy, where cellular exchange creates lasting biological connections.

Candid photographs of people taking short breaks far from the chaos of the bustling urban activity in Taipei’s Wanhua District.

In striking and luminous black and white images, Francisco Gonzalez Camacho conjures landscapes alive in transformation to reflect the experience of rerooting in another country.

Street photography connects us with humanity in all its forms, and in turn, allows us to be and feel more human in our day to day lives—here are many, many inspiring examples from cultures around the world. Enjoy!

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.

Moving to the US to study, Atefe Moeini utilises happy ‘accidents’, intuition and artistic freedom to explore the Iranian diaspora and memory
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William Lakin focuses on ideas and concepts using images, language and text to explore masculinity, the Brexit vote and conspiracy theories
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Nancy Floyd’s Weathering Time  will be exhibited at Galerie Huit Arles from 06 July, alongside 25 single image winners responding to the theme of Homecoming
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Istanbul-based Özge Sebzeci creates powerful, long-term works looking at femicide and other global issues involving young women and girls
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Ryan Prince puts truth and honesty at the heart of his practice photographing family and the rawness of his own therapy sessions
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Tudor Rhys Etchells exposes the repetition and bureaucracy surrounding citizenship and migration processes in the UK and abroad
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Rene Matić has won the 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, against a strong shortlist also featuring Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka and Amak Mahmoodian
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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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It was eleven o’clock at night, and I was working silently in the attic, sitting at my desk. It felt like being in an anechoic chamber; only the slow, monotonous hum of the scanner filled the silence. My children were asleep in their rooms, and my wife was on the sofa in front of the television, two floors below.

Photojournalist Brian Cassey reflects on a career spanning decades of frontline storytelling, international events, and documentary photography, exploring memory, ethics, visual narrative, and the changing landscape of contemporary photojournalism.

Borderline Ocean: What Remains of Childhood Trauma explores the enduring psychological consequences of early trauma such as neglect, abandonment, and abuse. The project reflects on how experiences that occur during childhood do not remain confined to the past but continue to shape the present, influencing emotions, relationships, and identity long into adulthood.

Chances are you have seen the video. A monorail train threads directly through the middle of a residential tower block, passengers sitting calmly as it glides between floors. The clip went viral, shared millions of times, and Chongqing — the city where it happens every day — suddenly became one of the most talked-about destinations on social media.

Black and white remains the purest possible way to create an impact, to discover absence within presence. The black and white vision helps ensure that the selection of photographs remains consistent with the overall visual and semantic logic.

For a major software company, we were commissioned to create a library of images that could live across future advertising campaigns and also be used on their website. We wanted images that felt modern, human, and unmistakably familiar.

“Angela Y.D. – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” is a fictional story shot in Tarantino style and inspired by the story of Angela Yvonne Davis, who was issued an arrest warrant for kidnapping and murder in the 1970s.

The first time I met a resident of 5 Rue Keller, in the Bastille district of Paris, she shared with me the history of the building. Around twenty Malian families were living there in extremely difficult conditions, occupying a squat that had fallen into severe disrepair. It was 1997, and at that time the residents were actively fighting to be rehoused.

Everything feels perched at the precipice of dissolution. Stifled, held in a listless and ambulatory state as the world, governed by men in search of machines, asks us to forgo the rampant onslaught of civil rights, of disagreeable concerns concerning the future, for the contrarily stale epiphany of the Great Progress, a pogrom in silhouette. […]

There has been a recent uptick in books devoted to the biographies and writings of photographers, and I am very excited about it. I wanted to share a couple of thoughts on it all. Sultan’s Water Over Thunder, published recently by MACK, includes many personal notes, anecdotes, archival letters, and ephemera from the artist’s oeuvre. It is […]

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 […]

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…