A new book celebrates the quirky self-portraits of Alan Adler: a photo booth manager from Melbourne who built an imaginative relationship with the analog machines he tended to for over five decades.

From high-tech to off-the-grid approaches, Charles Négre’s playful still lifes invite us to engage with the imaginative breadth of ‘prepper’ culture—a global movement of people preparing solutions to survive the end of the world.

LensCulture’s 2024 list of favorite photobooks highlights 36 diverse titles showcasing the personal favorites of experts around the world.

With a delicate eye for detail, color and texture, French photographer Vasantha Yogananthan’s epic interpretation of the “Ramayana” takes a painterly precision to the medium of photography.

Spanning four decades of Nigel Shafran’s personal journals, this beautiful publication interweaves his life and art to chronicle the British photographer’s loving devotion to the everyday.

In the face of growing anti-immigrant sentiment, Sachiko Saito explores the struggles of the Kurdish community of Japan — building a nuanced portrayal of her neighbors as they grapple with identity, exclusion, and cultural survival.

Bridging the past and the present, Eirini Androulaki takes the suicide letter of a Greek teacher who lived on the island of Folegandros in the early 20th century to explore themes of illness, social stigma and historical narratives.

By presenting these subjects in black and white, this series of portraits seeks to reveal the quieter side of these performers stripped of their colorful costumes and over-the-top personas.

Exploring the wunderkammer collection that underpins University of Oxford’s museum, The Flood recreates part of its magic – and uncovers some moral failings
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“Whether you’ve got six minutes or six days, it’s about lending yourself to those moments so that you can make people feel comfortable,” says the British-Nigerian photographer, recently commissioned by Leica and 1854 to capture ‘the everyday’
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Following their Berlin solo debut, the artist’s latest show travels to London this spring
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Tamara Abdul Hadi visited the marshes of southern Iraq to reimagine a European photo book about the region made years prior
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Through family archives and new images, Postponed Disbelief explores memory, language, and the impact of conflict
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The renamed Camera Club of New York builds community in both photography and its local neighbourhood
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They makeup a handful of stores that have shot to renown for sourcing rare printed matter – here, they share their favourite photo books 
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A turbulent decade riven by social and political change, the 1980s were also fertile ground for British photography
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A and not THE. Let’s be clear from the get-go that what we are talking about is A, or one, interpretive history of London’s East End through the prism of photography and, arguably, property and labor by esteemed archivist/documentarian Chris Dorley Brown, whose recent book A History of the East End, published by Nouveau Palais […]

The story a nation tells itself is crucially important to its people’s sense of national identity. It serves also as a way of establishing and maintaining a shared set of values. Primordialism is the dogmatic belief that one’s national origins are defined by skin colour, blood and a spiritual belonging, but if you don’t subscribe […]

  I am sure many of these people are dead. That is not what distinguishes the book or what makes it great. Instead, what is challenging is being alive during that part of history when the faces and bodies inhabiting the frames are familiar, enhanced by the glow from a window. Some of their bodies […]

I get a rapturous effect when I search through early twentieth-century illustrated books on archaeology. I know that it is a relatively niche endeavor, but there is something otherworldly about the effort that allows my imagination to stir in ways that are not easy to equate. Some of this is because the images are fantastical. […]

  I’m listening to Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume Two (Expanded Version), though I should be listening to the original score for Ilias’s book Forecast (Origini Edizioni, 2023, Second Edition). I apologize to Daphne Kotsiani, Y. Fotiadis, D. Joss, and I. Dimitriadis, who have added an audio piece of sculpted piano interludes that one […]

  In the realms of art, we celebrate a single act of creation. We give license to a nearly ideological pursuit of aura, a way in which we receive the act of a single creation as a roughly divine measure of human success. Yet, in photography and creating a photobook, which begs for narrative and […]

It would be hard to hand this photobook to someone in a decontextualized state and expect them to understand the modalities of ecstasy and horror that permeate the frames. In the first seventy or eighty percent of the book, figures cavort and twist and are undetermined by a common goal. They are bodies of a […]

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…