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Irina Rozovsky’s new book is a wandering road journey driven by a “geography of the mind and heart,” creating a fragmented record of the places and people she encountered on her decade-long travel across the Balkans.

Reflecting on a 50 year-long career in social documentary, Ken Light considers how photographs made in the urgency of the present gain new meaning with time, becoming invaluable records of the worlds we once inhabited.

From bold new discoveries to iconic masterpieces, Paris Photo 2026 promises a dazzling celebration of photography—here are 28 images that caught our eye.

A single match can destroy an entire forest—and in Mehrdad Fathi’s haunting cyanotypes, the humble matchbox becomes a vessel for remembering what we stand to lose.

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 general, most photography can and often does function as propaganda. It can do so through its design and contextual arrangement, but its meaning depends largely on the intention behind its placement, which shifts over time and can be shaped toward different goals depending on who uses and broadcasts it and for what purpose. This […]

Significantly, Graham MacIndoe has a series of books about his early life and an incredible autobiography, Chancers, co-written with Susan Stellin, which I have read and can recommend; together, they set up his recently published book, Always Good, from Lull Books. Looking back at the first book I encountered by Graham, All the Young Punks, […]

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 […]

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…