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Lens Culture

Looking Forward: 20 Preview Picks for Photo London 2023

Here is a preview selection of photographs that will be on display at Photo London this year May 10-14, 2023.

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LensCulture Exhibition at Photo London 2023

LensCulture’s upcoming group exhibition at Photo London will feature the work of 60 remarkable photographers, May 10-14, 2023. Here’s a preview of selected work.

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Lens Culture

Hafiz

Inviting us into a rarely-seen world, Sabiha Çimen’s images weave a colorful tapestry of girlhood in a community of young female students training to become ‘hafiz’—the guardians of the Qur’an.

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Beatle in the Box

This Italian duo created and photographed a series of sustainable recipes that reflect on the future of food. They all center on one unlikely ingredient: bugs.

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Under a Vaulted Sky

This complex and far-reaching work — consisting of photography, performance, sculpture and archival materials — grapples with various facets of Irish culture, history, spirituality and power.

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Where Have the Birds Gone?

In Nicolas St-Pierre’s striking black and white photographs, the streets and alleys of Tokyo become a roadmap to the uncanny — a journey of unexpected discoveries.

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Sunset at the Supermarket

Ousman Diallo’s sun-kissed photographs intimately capture youth culture in New York City, revisiting the neighborhoods of his own childhood to piece together a tribute to their beauty.

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Siblings

Documenting the lively adventures of her son and the family’s two beloved dogs, Wendy Stone reframes the bond between siblings through an animal lens.

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British Journal of Photography
Sony World Photography Awards 2023 winners announced, including Marisol Mendez, Federico Kaplan and Edgar Martins

Sony World Photography Awards 2023 winners announced, including Marisol Mendez, Federico Kaplan and Edgar Martins

Mendez and Kaplan win in the Environment category with their project Miruku, while Martins is named Photographer of the Year
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British Journal of Photography
Lynne Cohen’s ‘deadpan’ interiors go on show at the Centre Pompidou

Lynne Cohen’s ‘deadpan’ interiors go on show at the Centre Pompidou

Two decades of the late American photographer’s work reflect on her passion for the performance of everyday spaces, and the ambiguity of human interference
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British Journal of Photography
Home is where the art is: Inside Gabby Laurent’s fractured domestic bliss

Home is where the art is: Inside Gabby Laurent’s fractured domestic bliss

The photographer explodes the traditional links between motherhood and the home with daring, often dissociative images
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British Journal of Photography
‘Are you prepared for death?’: Exploring grief, faith, and community at Stephen Lawrence Gallery

‘Are you prepared for death?’: Exploring grief, faith, and community at Stephen Lawrence Gallery

Bringing together the work of five artists, a new exhibition explores difficult topics as tools for healing and connection
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British Journal of Photography
On Location: A photographer’s guide to Kyoto

On Location: A photographer’s guide to Kyoto

Photographer, writer and resident Sean Lotman guides us through the city’s photographic hotspots
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British Journal of Photography
‘Imagine the photo project is a conference’: An audience with Magnum’s Cristina de Middel

‘Imagine the photo project is a conference’: An audience with Magnum’s Cristina de Middel

The current president of Magnum Photos reflects on her life, work, and the state of photojournalism today
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British Journal of Photography
Emily Ryalls’ images are a gesture of solidarity to those who have experienced sexual violence

Emily Ryalls’ images are a gesture of solidarity to those who have experienced sexual violence

The photographer’s collaborative project communicates “both the comfort and despair that we find in those we are connected to”
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British Journal of Photography
Newcastle’s Side Gallery to close unless new funding secured

Newcastle’s Side Gallery to close unless new funding secured

Pioneering documentary photography gallery, which has hosted the likes of Chris Killip, Tish Murtha and Mik Critchlow during its 46-year history, faces permanent closure without public support
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Magnum Photos

100 Photos for Press Freedom by Abbas

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Burning Beauty

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A Year in Ukraine

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Magnum Digest #185: News and Projects from January 2023

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Lindokuhle Sobekwa named inaugural Kobal Fellow

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“The Era of Plenty is Over.” Matt Black on water inequality in the US

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Last Minute Gift Ideas from Magnum

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Watching Me, Watching You

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ASBX
Laurenz Berges Das Becherhaus in Mudersbach

Laurenz Berges Das Becherhaus in Mudersbach

  Full Article on Patreon     …Further images within images add to the sense of a lived space as Becher family photos from the 20s and 30s adorn mantels and countertops, with a finesse of an image, ala the Bechers, of a water town, sat, out of frame, lithely resting against a presumed wedding […]

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Alejandro Acin The Rest is History

Alejandro Acin The Rest is History

Alejandro Acin The Rest is History ICVL Studio and supported by Sala Kursala Programa Cultural   The machinations of history are in constant flexes of exchange. They are impermanent, their concept a flux, or are often a mess of contradictions. We are taught history as if it were permanent, an established and often binary set of […]

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ASBX
Nicolai Howalt A Journey: The Near Future

Nicolai Howalt A Journey: The Near Future

  There comes a point in our lives when the incessant cavorting, energy expulsion, and general themes of youth come to a crawling end. Associated with the recognition of these moments are a series of mid-life acknowledgments. First, if one takes up the standard biology-the coupling, work, and family routines, the dissipation of specific energies […]

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ASBX
Esaias Baitel Zonen 1982

Esaias Baitel Zonen 1982

Full Article on Patreon   This is an incredibly complicated book. It is one that I have been chasing for a year or so since I first became aware of it. It has a cult-like status for many reasons, least of all are the photographs, which are also incredible. The story of Baitel amid a […]

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ASBX
Gui Marcondes I Know I Exist Because You Imagine Me (Maquette Mix)

Gui Marcondes I Know I Exist Because You Imagine Me (Maquette Mix)

From Gui Marcondes I Know I Exist Because You Imagine Me   …By having our monthly meetings, the artist, who may work a day job or run a family, is encouraged to return to work to provide progress notes. There is no strike against them if they cannot bring something new every month as we […]

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Mikiko Hara Small Myths

Mikiko Hara Small Myths

  Full Article With More Images On Patreon   Throughout the work, Hara photographs portraits. Some of these images are culled from her familiar everyday journeys, with images of people on the street or in trains elegantly abetting the images of her family. Though far from a family book in the traditional sense, the text […]

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Aleksei Kazantsev Relaxing Chamber

Aleksei Kazantsev Relaxing Chamber

Full Article With Many More Images on Patreon   All in all, this book is significant. It bears all the marks of an undervalued classic. It is a book that escapes the doldrums of photography and its representations to speak about something ecological and outside of the medium while also employing a handicraft that is […]

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
The Most Beautiful Place in the World

The Most Beautiful Place in the World

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. The curator, Sandra KrižićBoban moves the focus from the domestic art scene to the neighboring scene, the Slovenian scene, creating a collaboration with Gallery Fotografija…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Faces of Time

Faces of Time

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 show individual persons, or several of them set in the same environment. It is clear that each person is aware that he / she is…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Somewhere

Somewhere

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 it finally led her to the later series of Operas and Plays. I am trying to be as commonplace as I can be, she used to…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Media-logged journey– pleasures and asceticism of transcendence

Media-logged journey– pleasures and asceticism of transcendence

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 real. The significance of the media-projected reality uncovers itself through strengthening the awareness of necessity to transcend the realistic ideology frame. It is exactly this…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Constructing an identity through the family archive  / Archon of the family heritage

Constructing an identity through the family archive / Archon of the family heritage

Where does the need to build an identity by reconstructing a family history come from? What is it in the past that is so strong that we could possibly rely on in an attempt to define our own existence?  Are we looking for an explanation? For reasons? Justification?  Or are we simply denying our own…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Davor Sanvincenti’s Fringe Oscillations

Davor Sanvincenti’s Fringe Oscillations

Davor takes interest in the fringe fields of light. What does he find in them? Fringe frequencies? But there is no such a thing, cause frequencies always move on, metamorphosing from visible to invisible, from light to sound and, further down to the oscillations that make up the universe. The given possibilities of our perceptions…

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