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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.

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.

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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Photography flourishes in the UK capital this spring, with Photo London helping spearhead a calendar of events including Peckham 24, two book fairs and a new early outing from WePresent
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Capturing close encounters with strangers and friends, Czech-Chinese photographer Linda Zhengová offers a raw and real take on intimacy
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Working with a liberated community in Mexico City, Sandra Blow reflects her subjects’ beauty and individuality
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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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 “Other photographers use AI to make their work better. I use it to attack mine.” The photography world has made its peace with artificial intelligence. You enhance the sky. You remove the noise. You run the image through a model, and it comes back cleaner, sharper, more itself, or more than itself, which is the same thing.

Where lines and curves merge with the pulse of time, weaving stories that only shapes can tell. Istanbul isn’t just a city; it’s a place where everything has a shape that tells a story. Walking through Istanbul, it feels as though the city itself is alive, breathing through its windows and ancient walls.

Dante is considered the greatest Italian poet. Divina Commedia is the apotheosis of his genius and the nightmare for many students. I was lucky when I was 15 years old that my teacher was able to make me understand Dante through a language that facilitated the visualization of what the verses were telling. Gustave Doré’s illustrations played a fundamental role in this process.

Years ago, when I had to leave Iran for many reasons, I found myself in Georgia, where I lived for over six years. There, I began an eight-year-long project to capture the lives of the Georgian people through my lens, focusing on common pains and struggles that mirrored my own experiences.

Rodeos are a global phenomenon, appearing in various forms across many regions and countries. Yet certain events stand out for their distinct character, scale, and atmosphere. The Kapunda Rodeo in South Australia is one such example: a professionally sanctioned event on the Australian Professional Rodeo Association calendar that retains the heart of a family-friendly country gathering.

As photographers, we are always on the other side, looking at life through our viewfinder, selecting what interests us, cropping what our eyes see through the chosen framing, stopping time at the precise moment; all in an endeavor, surely futile, to try to order, interpret, and give meaning to that amorphous, boundless, and incomprehensible reality.

After many years, she sees herself only through the place she has made into a home. Life is magic—the magic of being alive. She seeks to understand who she is through what she has created: magic or life.

I’ve always been drawn to the unintentional marks we leave behind. For years, I found myself captivated by tire tracks left on the asphalt. Walking around the city, I would point my camera down at the street, photographing hundreds of these marks from ground level. To me, the rubber left behind on the pavement always looked like brushstrokes layered onto a canvas.

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…