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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.

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.

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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Born and raised in Kathmandu, Arhant Shrestha has found himself, and comfort, through image-making
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Netherlands-based Dunya Zita examines themes of migration, home and geography by exploring her Moroccan family heritage and the SWANA region
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Jaisingh Nageswaran pushes his aesthetic boundaries using different formats to question place, community and identity in his India homeland
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Taking a gentle approach to the world, Mila Rae Sarabhai’s collages and installations suggest a decolonised photographic art and won the BJP Mention at Kyotographie this year
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Dhaka-based Shahria Sharmin’s quiet yet intense work considers South Asia’s third gender community, Rohingya refugees and family grief
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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.

Frenetic Tokyo is an extension of Zhou HanShun’s earlier series, Frenetic City, which examined the tension, velocity, and psychological density of urban life in Hong Kong. In this body of work, he shifts his focus to Tokyo, another hyper-concentrated metropolis shaped by relentless movement, layered infrastructures, and the compression of human activity.

Photographing nature, especially botanicals, is pure joy for me. It gets me outdoors and out of my head. There is a childlike wonder when I step into a garden with my camera. I find peace and serenity from the distractions that, at times, can crowd out mindfulness. In this context, photography is both healing and therapeutic for me.

Italian photographer Antonella Cunsolo explores childhood trauma, identity, and emotional memory through Borderline Ocean, a conceptual project where psychology and photography merge into symbolic narratives of fragility, survival, and reconstruction.

In the summer of 1990, Steve Hoffman began to use his camera in a completely different way. Until then, photography had only been something occasional for him, limited to vacations, holidays, and family moments. He had never considered it an important part of his life, nor did he imagine it could eventually become such a meaningful form of expression.

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 […]

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 […]

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…