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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.

Photo highlights from the extraordinary group show in New York, celebrating the work of 35 award-winning photographers from 18 countries.

A collection of photographs taken over the course of four decades bears witness to the enduring intimacy of family life and the tenderness of Emmet Gowin’s photographic gaze.

LensCulture’s New York exhibition brings together 35 photographers from around the world, each offering a distinct vision of the present moment.

Turning his attention to the largest living organism in the world, Jonah Reenders’ poetic exploration of a 10,000-year-old fungus raises questions about our connection to a shifting natural world.

In her latest project, Lisa Murray finds a visual language to record the ebb and flow of a daily life shaped and informed by her process of healing from illness and trauma.

Accompanying a group of shepherds on their annual migration, Maurice Wolf captures an ancient tradition in contemporary Georgia, known as transhumance, that takes place through the mountains of Tusheti.

Sibusiso Bheka’s images convey the complex reality of belonging to the post-apartheid generation — and the weight of history — in Thokoza, a township south of Johannesburg that he calls home.

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Working with a liberated community in Mexico City, Sandra Blow reflects her subjects’ beauty and individuality
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Paris has a larger-than-life mythology, but the sprawling banlieues surrounding the city are less represented; Jade Joannès is aiming to dismantle the caricatures, and has also trained her gentle eye on Japan and more widely on France
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Started in 2006, Fotografia Europea returns to the northern Italy city Reggio Emilia with cutting-edge exhibitions exploring what is real and what refuses to be buried
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Born in Jerusalem and brought up in Detroit, Maen Hammad feels a responsibility to document life in Palestine – from skater culture to prisoner releases
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Set up by industry insiders, Offspring Photo Meet is a chance to get your portfolio in front of key people and to join a photo community.
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Drawing on Chinese art and culture, plus other traditions outside European modernity, Tianyu Wang is questioning the medium of photography and its take on the world
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Established in a picture-perfect historical city, Kyotographie photofestival pushes the boundaries on what can be shown, and for its 14th edition spotlights work made in South Africa
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Everything Must Go. Established in 1960, the San Jose Flea Market has been a cultural cornerstone of Silicon Valley in Northern California. For decades, it has provided affordable goods, food, and entertainment while fostering a strong sense of community for immigrant families and working-class residents.

For as long as she could remember, being alone was a frightening place to be. It was where she felt stripped down to her bare bones, where her loudest thoughts and emotions consumed her. Being alone was not simply solitude; it was loneliness.

Three years after the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake on February 6, 2023, this photo essay follows people in Antakya whose daily lives are still marked by makeshift living conditions. The city, once known as Antioch, one of the world’s most important metropolises on the Silk Road, is now a dusty, sprawling construction site.

Salvatore Montemagno’s work moves between photography and painting, constructing images defined by silence, restraint, and symbolic tension. In “Elective Affinities”, two female figures inhabit a suspended narrative where identity, reflection, and ambiguity intertwine, inviting the viewer to complete the image through their own interpretation.

In the narrow lanes of Majnu ka Tila, where Pakistani Hindu refugees from Sindh have carved out a fragile home along the Yamuna’s edge in North Delhi, the air fills with the sharp, comforting bite of wood smoke laced with cardamom.

Water is not merely a surface here; it is time itself. “Memory of Water” exists within the tension between what is fixed and what is in constant flux. Rather than documenting a place, the photographs trace its gradual dissolution over time. Structures, piers, benches, and traces of the shore slowly fade into the water, losing their solidity and certainty. What remains is not a presence, but the sensation of a trace.

The “By the Sea” project wasn’t an idea that came about overnight. Looking back, it began 25 years ago, at a time when he was still very much a beginner in photography. Back then, he lacked a clear vision; he was experimenting with technical aspects and hadn’t yet given any thought to long-term series or thematic projects.

Published in Dodho Magazine Issue #36, Gabi Steiner explores the Mundari cattle camps in South Sudan through a quiet, observational approach, focusing on identity, daily life, and the deep bond between humans and animals.

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 […]

The life of Sarah Schumann should be much better known to the world. As a proponent of the New Women’s Movement, a talented painter, collagist, designer, and all-around life of post-war intrigue suggests a profound tie to the German movements of the mid-century, and yet, like many artists, particularly female artists of the Twentieth Century, […]

First published in 1975, Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archaeology has become a classic between categories of production. First and foremost, it is an essential book of photographs that typologically investigates the remnants of Second World War bunker armaments mostly along France’s Western coastline. These heavy structures, though short and squat, are impressive concrete-and-rebar boulders that sit […]

I was never accustomed to the tall tales of muchroom pickling that pervade Europe. Mildly aware of the phenomenon back in Wisconsin around the spring movements of the morel mushroom picking season, born to a family of hunters, I did not grasp the essential nature of mushrooms and fungi until quite late in my lifetime. […]

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…