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Beneath Bermuda’s image of paradise, Nicola Muirhead uncovers a complex inheritance of slavery, migration, resilience and community carried across generations.

A political exile from Belarus, Sasha Velichko uses uncanny staged photography and AI-generated visuals to tell the buried stories of everyday violence enacted by the dictatorship of her home country.

Following a group of Ukrainians who fled the war to Bratislava, this collection of portraits balance sadness and humor to explore what it’s like to start a new life over the age of 60.

What does it mean to “not work” when your days are consumed by keeping a family and household together? Olga Steinepreis answers with wit, surrealism and a camera.

L’Artiere Edizioni’s Gianluca Gamberini talks about collaboration, experimentation and the magic of transforming a body of photographs into a book with a life of its own.

Looking for the best photography podcasts? These 11 standout shows bring you closer to the photographers, ideas and stories shaping the medium today.

Created during a brief relocation from the New York City, displacement and domestic unease haunt the photographs in Alex Yudzon’s monochrome portrait of a house in rural Connecticut.

From major international festivals to independent publishing gatherings, discover more than 70 photobook fairs connecting photographers, publishers, collectors and book lovers worldwide.

Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Google Glitches began with a simple observation: when moving through Google Street View, the world does not behave exactly like the physical world it represents. Streets, buildings, vehicles, trees, signs, and people are reconstructed from a sequence of 360-degree photographs and computational processes.

It is well known that India has played a central role in the cultivation, consumption, and trade of spices for centuries. But why here? And what happens before a spice reaches the table?

Documentary photographer Lorenzo Mancini reflects on The Forgotten of Saint-Louis, his powerful project documenting the lives of talibé children in Senegal, and discusses ethics, dignity, vulnerability, and the responsibility of giving visibility to overlooked realities.

How the unpredictability of the Arctic confronts the expansion of the economic exploitation of Arctic regions. Temperatures of up to 55 degrees Celsius below zero, military restriction zones, extensive research, and the unpredictability of the Arctic made this project, created with an analog view camera, an enormous challenge.

I have dedicated myself to staging and photographing miniature tableaux for nearly three decades. I create each piece through a meticulous process in which I combine hand fabrication and storytelling to produce the final work as a photograph.

Portraits Style Congo explores the links between Belgium’s colonial history, Art Nouveau architecture, and the representation of Afro-descendant Belgians. The series was photographed inside emblematic Art Nouveau buildings in Brussels, including the Horta Museum, built in 1898 by and for architect Victor Horta, and the Hôtel van Eetvelde, designed by Horta in 1895 for Edmond van Eetvelde, General Administrator of the Congo Free State.

In March 2024, my brother Martijn and I travelled to Shikoku, an island in southern Japan. We had our bicycles with us, our cameras, and not much else. No plan. No shot list. No idea what we would find.

SOLACE is a photographic series about vulnerability, proximity, and the ambiguous human need for consolation. The figures appear behind or beneath a translucent black veil. At times they emerge clearly; at others, their bodies seem to recede into the material surrounding them. The veil conceals, but never completely.

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 […]

The Balkans are very hard to describe. Though I have spent an inordinate amount of time in Greece, mostly in its capital, having traveled through the Balkans to get there, I remember a sense of something enigmatic, misty, and compelling as we traveled to and from Greece. I remember thinking about it all on a […]

Toxic typology or cultural analysis of Swiss Agro-society, you be the judges. Either way, these little uns gunna smoke these here heaters until the cows come home. There is an amazing history of smoking in photography that Lucy Sante first cottoned onto sometime in the early 2000s with her book No Smoking. Several other smoking […]

Sure, why not? Technically speaking, or at least relatively speaking, this is a kindly trove of American sculpture, itinerant in feel, something like an archaeological project that hints at Irving Penn, Avedon, and the side of Walker Evans people like to speak about ad infinitum as if we were all to marvel at the notion […]

Mycellium and fungus in general have been a renewed interest as of late. Some of this is undoubtedly narrowed or zoomed in by the current fear of ecocide most of us are experiencing as we watch wildfires decimate geographies familiar and unfamiliar, as we are forced to watch data centers spring up around natural aquifiers- […]

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…