This evocative series weaves astrology, surreal imagery, and raw emotion into a striking exploration of impending motherhood, unplanned pregnancy, and the contradictions of female identity.

Through images of the Texas landscape and personal history, Ariana Gomez weaves a visual narrative of lost land, family, and identity—inviting readers to step into a story of memory, migration, and belonging.

A striking visual exploration of girlhood, exposing the tension between identity, societal pressures, gender performance, and the paradox of innocence and desirability in the smartphone age.

In this lyrical collection of poems and photographs, Rebecca Norris Webb charts her journey through the loss of her brother as she follows the migration of birds through the American South and Northern France.

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!

John Blakemore (1936-2025), was an influential British photographer and teacher, renowned for his landscape and still-life photography.

Drawing inspiration from the Dutch Golden Age, Lia Darjes’ theatrical still lifes capture her furry neighbors feasting at her garden dining table at night. “Plates I-XXXI” is a surreal glimpse into the secret world of animals that unfolds in our absence.

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Margarita Galandina and Alice Poyzer are the series winners of BJP’s 2024 Female in Focus; and this year, BJP is introducing a People’s Choice category for one outstanding image in the award
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The emerging Filipino-American artist’s project Barako exhibited at Photo Fringe 2024
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Through his staged photography, Kenneth Lam brings to life the stories embedded in the evolving Museum of the Home
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Running 16 photobooths for more than 50 years, Alan Adler created an archive of self-portraits that test the boundaries of identity and creativity
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The Italian photographer spent years in Iraq focusing on its Shia communities and complicating the idea of ‘social Islam’
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The Afropean author is back with a touring show, curating working-class photographers to present an alternative reading of class aesthetics
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Creative duo and club stalwarts Martin Green and James Lawler take a utopian yet realistic look at 90s Queer nights in Britain, at Open Eye Gallery
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A rich family history of political struggle and personal responsibility, diverging paths and roads left untrod inform Thero Makepe’s We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here
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I started from the earth the pirriaturi dug to bring the stone to light. I arrived at the planet, which today is kept in the cavities that give rise to the hypogeum gardens. Past and present real mingle with facts, legends, possible truths, and distant mythologies in this place.- Alessandra Calò Particular global geographies exist […]

I had not held a copy of Americans Seen until this new remastered edition, published by Nazraeli Press, landed on my doorstep a few weeks ago. I had previously come to Sage’s work through her book Animals, published in 2019 by British publishers Stanley/Barker. It was at that point that I became aware of Americans […]

  Access to medical attention should be a right, no matter religious qualification or moralizing over another adult person’s decision. In the case of abortion, this is complicated by how we judge human sentience in the form of an unborn child. It is complicated. To say otherwise would be a misstep that does not account […]

How long should mourning last? Could you tell me the prescribed timeframe for a loved one’s passing to be followed by a resolution? The fallacy of the human condition regarding loss suggests that one can move on from a significant loss, when in reality, as the metric is difficult to ascertain, mourning, from my perspective […]

    These photographs were taken by weather cameras in Finland every twelve minutes. From that point, the Finnish weather authorities/authorities who observed the weather uploaded the images online to be viewed for 24 hours before they disappeared. This presented an opportunity for Finnish artist Tatu Gustafsson to perform for the weather camera and document […]

  Without knowing much about architecture, what I find fascinating is that it is one of the forms of art that its artists can layer with the fantastical and still deliver a direct utility. Of course, most architects and architecture do not work toward abstraction; instead, they look at the medium as one for function […]

Published by Witty Books in 2023 and designed by Giulia Boccarossa, Sofia Masini’s first photobook The body is a revelation as is landscape experiments with reconfigurations of the artist’s body and of the world it inhabits. Through a series of images in which both body and landscape are cut, disassembled, xeroxed, crumpled, recycled, multiplied 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….

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…

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…

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…