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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.

A new expanded edition of Lars Tunbjörk’s iconic photobook offers a biting take on the boredom, chaos and high-stress of corporate office culture.

Here’s a preview of the wide range of photography you can see (and purchase) at the Park Avenue Armory this year.

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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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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The new exhibition at Zurich’s Museum Rietberg highlights artists working with historic images
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The former director at Claire de Rouen and curator of the Alaïa Bookstore, Flora Gau tells BJP about her new labour of love
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The British-born Pakistani photographer takes inspiration from her life between cultures to create family and community portraits
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My professional career was as a psychotherapist. As such, I spent many hours with a diverse population of adults, helping them navigate the issues of their lives. I have an abiding curiosity about, and regard for, the fundamental concerns of the individual and the ways people cope with the tasks of daily living, both in public spaces and alone.

“Creatures from Nothingness”. Technique: digital painting and drawing over promptography (according to Boris Eldagsen). AI procedure. I am interested in the sinuous lines we find in nature: eroded pebbles, pieces of smooth-skinned fruit or vegetables—recalling here Edward Weston.

Nearly 4,000 kilometers across China’s vast territory, exploring—through the language of photography—how much this country still has to reveal to the Western world. In 1975, Wilhelm Meister departed from Glückstadt, in the far north of Germany, crossing the country to reach its southernmost edge, near the imposing Zugspitze.

This series was developed over time, perhaps without a clear beginning. He does not remember exactly when he started paying attention to things that almost disappeared.

Andrei P’s work operates at the intersection of analogue memory and computational image-making. Although the images are generated through AI systems, their internal logic is rooted in the sensibilities of physical photography: black-and-white tonal depth, directional light, sculptural shadow, and the quiet tension between presence and absence.

In January 2026, he accompanied a humanitarian medical mission to Umunohu, Imo State, Nigeria, working as a documentary photographer. The mission was organized by the Emeakaroha Foundation, which has established both the regional hospital and the nearby school as part of its long-term commitment to local infrastructure and access to care and education.

ONE DAY / ONE FRAME is a long-term photographic practice structured around a simple and uncompromising rule: one image per day. The project began on the first night of the year and developed not as a way of recording events, but as a practice of recognizing when a place becomes photographable.

Narva is a hybrid of identities, a record of upheaval and decay. During the Soviet era, Narva was a major industrial city with a predominantly Russian-speaking population. The city shares a direct border with Russia, marked only by a river.

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…