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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.

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we are highlighting a selection of women who inspire us through their photography and artistic vision.

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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In Accra, artists, archivists, collectors, and scholars gathered for an inaugural symposium that asked how to preserve Black photographic history and what care truly looks like
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The year was 2009, and the world was in the depths of the Great Recession. Photography assignments had almost disappeared. As a result, he had a great deal of time on his hands and began looking for a project that would keep him occupied until the economy recovered. After reading months of Anchorage Daily News obituaries, he began to notice the lack of photographs for deceased homeless individuals. Their death notices included only name, place…

“In Lieu of Flowers” is her ongoing series of botanical photographs, especially dedicated to the son she lost in the summer of 2020. Because he died during COVID, there was no funeral, nowhere to display flowers—only his cremains returned in a box.

In this collection of works, she looks at a flower as a shape-shifter — a symbol that carries different meanings depending on light, context, and perception. Flowers appear as emblems of transience, carriers of memory, and witnesses to human presence. They exist at the edge of life and decay, stillness and motion, fragility and resilience. Her work is rooted in the emotional resonance of objects and the traces of human experience they hold. Still life,…

This collection, “Fragments of Life”, brings together images from his third visit to Hong Kong, a city that appears to be the same vertical, hyper-dense labyrinth on the surface, yet feels very different through the lens. His first two trips were separated by roughly seven years, each time traveling as a tourist with a wide-angle camera, eager to capture the city’s most obvious landmarks. This time, he returned with a singular photographic mission: to find…

The gray dawn heralded the rain that the fishermen had been waiting for. They say that the murkier the seawater becomes, enriched by sediments carried from the nearby river, the better it is for fishing. The tide had already begun to rise, slowly overtaking the sand with small waves that grew bolder and bolder.

The photographic project Group Living is a reflection on over-urbanization in China. The project questions the extreme trend of urban expansion by depicting a gregarious state of urbanization in major Chinese cities. Unlike Western developed countries, where urbanization has evolved over centuries

Her photographic practice is shaped by interests in history and biography and, from there, develops through her experiences, observations, and sense of spontaneity, curiosity, and intuition. Over the years, her work has focused on people and places, sometimes close and intimate and sometimes more distant, but always evolving from her personal journeys and quiet exploration.

In the space suspended between thought and its manifestation, ‘Printed Dreams’ take shape not as reflections of reality, but as architectures of the invisible. This is a study that explores the very nature of perception: what remains of us when the world fragments and light decides to break down into new emotional alphabets?

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. […]

So, I’ve never watched a single one of Lanthimos’s films. Maybe this will change in the near future. Dunno. I am aware that I do not know a Dog’s tooth from a Frog’s gooch. In order to subvert my programming, which some of my more learned friends insisting that I am already in denial over […]

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…