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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.

Returning to one of her first projects, Janet Delaney presents a witty, warm-hearted look at labor and love, through the last days of her father’s career as a salesman.

Shortlisted for the “Storm” cycle of the Prix Pictet, Camille Seaman reflects on chasing supercells and icebergs, and the power of photography, as she documents fleeting reality.

Training his camera on in-between moments and gestures, David Masoko’s tender take on street photography explores the tensions between visibility and privacy in an image-saturated world.

In this LensCulture interview, Torrance York reflects on how photography became a tool for understanding, acceptance, and connection after her Parkinson’s diagnosis.

The British-born Pakistani photographer takes inspiration from her life between cultures to create family and community portraits
The post Recent graduate Shizza Majeed asks “who is British?” appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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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Hosted by Mimi Mollica in the scenic Belíce Valley, a group of photographers gather each year to celebrate life and make work inspired by a landscape decimated by a devastating earthquake half a century ago
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The Paris-born artist captures accidentally theatrical everyday scenes through vernacular photography
The post Yomna El Beyaly’s honest observations of Egypt’s everyday performances appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Bonnes Mères blends film, photo, painting and sculpture to offer an honest and generous look at motherhood
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The SWANA-focused gallery, which underwent a period of renovations, relaunches by exhibiting Circles and Storytellers, alongside Palestinian artist Dima Srouji’s new permanent commission
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In partnership with MPB, British Journal of Photography delves into the work and purpose of Rory Langdon-Down
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The photographer’s new photo book Moon City is a hallucinatory vision of the dark heart of London
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Originating in Lucknow, Chikankari embroidery stands as the city’s signature craft and cultural hallmark. It has created a strong appeal in the Indian market. Apart from the labor of the artisans that goes into the making of Chikankari kurtas, there is a crucial step in its production carried out by the Dhobi community.

Functions Without Use explores constructed spaces and ordinary places in which their intended function is suspended or inactive. The project highlights how everyday environments, designed for use, can exist independently of the actions or activities they were meant to host. The sequence opens with the closed shutter of a bar: frontal, essential, immediate. Here, something is expected to happen, yet nothing occurs. This threshold introduces the central theme of the project: suspended function and ordinary…

This photoshoot explores human nature through a mystical, storytelling lens. Crown of Time tells the story of a king who seized his crown through war, setting off a chain of pain and destiny. The project is built as a visual narrative in which each image functions as a fragment of a larger story.

This series explores the quiet presence of the Baltic Sea and the subtle emotional landscape shaped by northern light. Living in Österlen, on the southern coast of Sweden, the artist is surrounded by vast horizons, wind, and an ever changing sky.

Tepito, one of Mexico City’s toughest neighbourhoods, is the historic cradles of Mexican boxing. Here, boxing is not merely a sport; it is resistance, identity, and, for many, the only path toward dignity and survival.

Through intimate portraiture of its diverse citizenry, the proud Goans, the new infusion of migrant labor and cosmopolitan influence of city folk, the faces become a living archive, a document of visual ethnography that charts an identity of a place caught in an incandescent friction of contemporary times.

The Frozen Gallery of the Southern Ocean. Antarctica serves as the world’s most exclusive open-air gallery, where the art is sculpted by the relentless forces of gravity, wind, and tide. These floating cathedrals are not merely blocks of frozen water; they are ephemeral sculptures that defy human imagination.

For over three decades, Myriam Aadli has developed a rigorous photographic practice rooted in the humanist tradition while critically reactivating its relevance in a contemporary visual landscape marked by acceleration and image saturation.

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 […]

Agony in the Garden. Parables. Metaphors. Incisive mythology within the realms of the contemporary political landscape of Europe in the 2020s. To reduce Lua Ribeira’s work to any single motif is an exercise in futility. Instead, the analysis must stem from the aggregate means of its parts. Of course, one cannot simply resign the work […]

I am writing this dispatch from Athens, Greece, where we are currently on the third day of shooting. The following work is part of the Nearest Truth Workshops, The Dailies workshop, which includes instructors Bryan Schutmaat, Matthew Genitempo, and Brad Feuerhelm. The workshop outline is detailed as follows: Dailies is a newspaper term for a daily […]

  Sometimes, all it takes is a corner and a series of evaporating shadows to serve as a conduit to greater understanding of the built environment and all the human activity that has transpired within it. In studying Charles Johnstone’s court photography, what is exceptionally evident is the simplicity with which the rendering of space […]

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…