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Photographing the outskirts of his home city of Wuhai, China, Yue Sun captures a coal city in decline and a young generation caught in a state of uncertainty—their lives muted.

Embarking on a poetic drift through his older work, Bouwe Brouwer builds a conversation between photographs from different corners of his archive that come together around the theme of ‘escape.’

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.

In conversation beside the creek he photographed for more than a decade, Caleb Stein reflects on trust, masculinity, community, and the rewards of looking closely at one place over time.

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.

My series portrays the everyday life of Alison Martinu, a suburban cross-dresser living in Newcastle. These pictures are more than a temporary escape; they are a testament to the self-creation of identity.

These pictures started life as an experiment designed to convey contemporary East London in a specific mood and atmosphere that reflected my experience of moving through an urban space in the bright light of summer.

“Where the Lake Ends” follows the collective’s interest in documenting the Italian landscape and its inhabitants. In this project, set in a location renowned for its scenic lake, we employed two main elements of orientation.

An enduring collaboration changes the way we see. For Bastiaan Woudt and Tinotenda Mushore, known as Tino, returning to the studio over a decade has allowed a shared visual language to develop, bringing the body, texture, and sculptural forms into constant dialogue

Elsewhere takes an introspective dive into my own journey of immigration to Finland and the resulting feelings of isolation, using the landscape as a tool for emotional catharsis. It explores internal processes of physical and spiritual displacement as an immigrant, working in the space between natural and imaginary landscapes.

Exhale is an ongoing series of long-exposure photographs made along Yellowstone Lake, exploring the relationship between time, memory, and the way we perceive landscape. The photographs begin with recognizable elements—water, sky, distant landforms, fog, and horizon lines—but long exposures gradually strip away the information we normally use to identify a place

In Frank Kunert’s photographs, everyday life appears to follow its familiar rules until something no longer fits. The architecture feels recognizable, the spaces have an apparent logic, and the surfaces bear the marks of time. Yet this seeming normality contains a contradiction.

In Uccle’s most affluent streets, grand houses hold memories behind tall hedges. Renée Lorie has been exploring this landscape since September 2024, carrying a camera and an invitation: to share coffee or tea, talk about what brings happiness, and ask what abundance means.

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…