In Ciudad Juárez, female wrestlers, Luchadoras, fight for respect and safety while inspiring young girls to seek equality inside and outside the ring.

This book explores the global trend of ‘trophy cities’—new capital cities built from scratch to showcase political power and control, often at the expense of local needs.

In her Arctic mission, Laure Winants fuses art, science, and technology, exploring photography’s potential to capture the optical and luminous phenomena of the North and address its environmental issues.

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.

Blending black and white photographs, diaristic writing, and carefully chosen family archives, Hady Barry offers us an intimate look at a complex mother and daughter relationship.

Toby Binder’s intimate documentary-portraits explore the intersecting struggles of poverty, belonging, and identity faced by young people living on the margins of rich, industrial Germany.

Created over three years, “Rite of Passage” captures Randhawa and her friends as they navigate girlhood, identity, and self-discovery growing up in Delhi.

Mixing documentary and first-person narrative, Maria Abranches sheds light on the overlooked legacies of Portuguese colonialism, through the story of one woman’s life.

Through the lens of 41 photographers, founder Romaisa Baddar’s new book offers an intimate, nuanced glimpse into domestic spaces throughout the region
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180 Studios hosts Selah, the largest exhibition of the inimitable photographer and filmmaker to date
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The artist’s latest show An Ominous Presence explores the tension between desire, identity, and the act of image-making
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Bound by Two Homes blends Iranian cultural iconography with quintessentially British spaces to dissect identity
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After 18 years at C/O Berlin, and three years setting up the fledgling FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, Felix Hoffmann is spearheading its move into a large new home in a historic postwar building
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From Trump’s bloody ear and dangerous migrations to injured children Gaza and the impending climate crisis, this year’s edition captures a turbulent zeitgeist
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The vibrant photography scene in Hungary and beyond testifies to the urgent need to update outmoded conceptions of Central and Eastern Europe, argues curator and researcher Catherine Troiano
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BJP is saddened to hear that photographer and visual artist Nona Faustine has passed away. In celebration of her life and work, we are republishing our interview on White Shoes, her alternative history of the USA and its slave trade
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Othering, debated through the discourse of reading the camera as a difference machine, seems at the crux of much of photography’s woes. Challenged by the notion that the machine is neutral in its observational and technical ability, the authorship and cultural means of producing images are undergoing a fruitful re-assessment of its terms to represent, […]

  With Japanese photography, I have had to change how I look at it from the surface level toward something much more intricate in my understanding of how Japanese artists approach the camera. When I first started looking into the national camera of Japan, the obvious references were already a known quantity to me. Classic […]

I am relatively new to Jochen Lempert’s work, or at least his books. I was aware of his book Phenomena from 2013, which seems a favorite among his fans and commands a decent price at auction. I tend to note these things to argue with or argue against about a book’s “weight” amongst the bevy […]

When confronted with any set of images or photographs in series, it is instinctual to try and form an understanding of what is being communicated. In the absence of being explicitly told, we sub-consciously begin to form relationships between the images that help constitute for us, a narrative or story we can hang onto. We […]

When I received a copy of Michael Brodie’s new book Failing, I knew it would take me a while to organize my feelings towards it. Some thoughts take time to settle from a place of instinctive fondness and sentimentality, especially when you feel so strongly connected to someone’s previous work. As for many of us, my […]

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 […]

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…