A look back at some favorite photography, writing, and interviews from the first 20 years of LensCulture — pure inspiration from some of the best photographers on the planet!

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Triggered by personal loss during the pandemic, Italian photographer Cinzia Laliscia’s soft and enigmatic images revisits her family legacy to pay tribute to the rhythms of rural life at her grandparents’ home in Loreno.

Alec Soth’s new book avoids straightforward answers. Set against the playful, chaotic backdrop of art schools, it delves into creativity, self-discovery, and the existential aspects of becoming—and remaining—an artist.

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.

With his chronicle of the communities struck by government incompetence, the photographer tells BJP that “it’s important to look at history”
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Setting up a mobile studio in a Bolivian market, the photographer offered locals free portraits – Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo speaks with him about collaboration, performance and the societal role of the itinerant photographer
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The Greek photographer’s latest solo show blends his photography with found imagery to create an actively critical voice, Phin Jennings finds
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The Iranian-British artist spends time volunteering for NGOs as well as creating material for his Sketchbook series
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The Tunis-born fashion artist uses photography to express the complications of queer love and personal history
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Slowly but surely becoming a star, the photographer took an unusual route into photography and maintains an idiosyncratic approach to commissions
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Informed by his own experiences with migration and photography, Mohamed Keita set up spaces for self-determination
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BJP heads to Jimei in China to find a festival bringing forward a vast programme dissecting immigration, family histories and new technology
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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 […]

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…