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The Secret Place with Nowhere to Hide

Finding peace and refuge in creativity, Jiatong Lu uses photography to heal from childhood trauma reconnecting with herself and others around her in the process.

Preview: The Photography Show by AIPAD 2024

Here’s a sneak peak at some of the great images that will be shown at The Photography Show in New York, April 25-28.

Onironautica

Diving deep into the world of lucid dreaming through a variety of ancient and contemporary practices, Ludovica De Santis intricately crafts weird and wonderful images fished from her subconscious.

A Place Called Home

Can art help shape the way communities interact? In Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora’s powerful new work, young women and their families open about the effects of generational trauma and gendered violence.

Ghosts in the Field

Capturing the devastation caused by a plant pathogen on the ancient olive trees of Salento, Italy, Murray Ballard’s project traces the impact on the region’s past, present and future.

Unintended Beauty

Alastair Philip Wiper photographs huge factories, research facilities and grand feats of engineering all over the world — always with an eye to capturing the “accidental aesthetics of industry and science.”

LensCulture New York Exhibition 2024

Announcing a group show celebrating new contemporary photography, featuring 64 award-winning photographers — April 25-28, 2024.

Imago

Using alternative photographic processes, Mehrdad Mirzaie reinterprets archival images to question how photographs influence our perception of history and shape our vision of the future.

For Parts Not Working

​Following a traumatic brain injury, Lisa Murray delved deep into the inner workings of her mind, camera in hand, in an attempt to piece back together her story. The outcome is a touching, imaginative visual exploration of healing.

As We Rest in the Shadows

Through an intimate portrait of sisters Jae and Jenni, Andriana Nativio recalls her own girlhood bond with nature, while commenting on the forces that seek to disrupt it.

Favorite Photobooks 2023

An eclectic year-end list of favorite photobooks of 2023 — personal recommendations from photographers, photography experts, friends and colleagues around the world.

Cultural Changes at the Coldest Place on Earth — A Photo Story from Yakutsk

Photographer Alexey Vasyliev offers an intimate look into the life and changing culture of the Evens, an indigenous tribe in his hometown of Yakutsk — one of the coldest places on Earth.

15 Most Popular Photo Stories from LensCulture in 2023

Here are 15 of LensCulture’s most popular highlights from 2023 — a mix of new discoveries, photobook reviews, interviews, essays, exhibitions and visual stories.

The Fulani Project

In the second edition of “Arrivals,” Wesley Verhoeve introduces us to Tariq Tarey’s latest project; a beautiful portrait series of the Fulani community of his home state of Ohio.

At Night Gardens Grow

This spectral offering transports us into a landscape populated by anonymous figures and restless animals, navigating their way through the dead of the night.

Favorite Photobooks of 2021

39 curators, artists, editors and other photography experts reveal their personal favorite photobooks from 2021 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations.

Home Is Where The Garden Grows

In the first edition of “Arrivals”—a monthly column dedicated to new voices in photography—Wesley Verhoeve introduces us to Erinn Springer’s latest project; a tender meditation on family life set in the Midwest.

Out of the Shadow

Anna Biret is an artist with a gift for seeing the world as a deeply rich place of light, contrasts, colors, textures and shapes. With this kind of vision and attitude, ordinary moments can become extraordinary — if only for the fraction of a second it take

Sentiments and Sorrows

Brimming with emotion, Bowei Yang’s portraits create a space of healing in which the photographer and his subjects can explore their identities, liberating themselves from their conservative backgrounds.

In Visible Light

In these award-winning photographs by Sam Ferris, intense golden sunlight bounces off the steel-and-glass urban canyon walls of Sydney’s Central Business District — illuminating passersby and setting the stage for countless fleeting encounters on the cit

The Castle

Richard Mosse’s “The Castle” uses the discomforting, non-human vision of the thermographic camera to explore the refugee camps that characterize today’s migrant crisis.

The Poetic Verisimilitude of the Vernacular

Bertien van Manen’s “Archive” offers a deep-dive into the Dutch photographer’s extraordinary career, mapping out her empathetic, vernacular approach to the documentary genre through images as well as extracts from her journal.

Gwo Fanm — Being Strong in Vulnerability

Using her practice as a way to reflect on and heal family trauma, Naomieh Jovin works intimately with her family album, intervening in the archive and adding new perspectives with her own photographs.

Speak the Wind

Moving away from a documentary approach, Hoda Afshar’s enigmatic new book engages with the elements to trace the complex history of a group of islands in the Strait of Hormuz on the southern coast of Iran.

Reflections Inside the Seoul Metro

With the keen eye of a street photographer, Argus Paul Estabrook captures a world of black-and-white abstractions and kaleidoscopic views of commuters in the Seoul metro system. 

A Permanent Home in the Mouth of the Sun

Inspired by a collection of objects left behind by her grandmother, Hannah Altman builds a visual world to explore the customs retold and translated over time across the Jewish diaspora.

Drummies

Alice Mann’s joyful portraits document South Africa’s drum majorettes, capturing the pride and performance of the young, all-female groups that practice this competitive sport.

The Day You Were Born, I Wasn’t Born Yet

Diving into family lore during the pandemic, Kai Yokoyama meets his ancestors through photography, weaving together archival pictures from the past with his own hushed images of the present.

Memory of the Eyes

In her surreal black and white photographs, Sara Cucè explores the in-between spaces of migration in search of a visual form that describes what it feels like to be neither here nor there.

Glass Life

In her new book, Sara Cwynar creates a dizzying helter-skelter through the chaos of our consumerist visual world to bring us face-to-face with our complex relationship with images.

Deponie (Landfill)

In these quiet black-and-white photographs, Tobias Kruse confronts the unsettling first decade of East Germany after the fall of the Wall, including its Nazi past and present.

Deponie

In these quiet black-and-white photographs, Tobias Kruse confronts the unsettling first decade of East Germany after the fall of the Wall, including its Nazi past and present.

Portrait of Daniel

This photograph speaks volumes. Its simplicity and directness belie the power, emotion and contradictions it contains, which is one reason it was selected as a Top 10 Pick for the 2021 Critics’ Choice Awards.

In Need of New Ceremonies

A 25-year-old Romanian photographer appropriates the same tools of the former Securitate secret police to try to come to grips with her parent’s and their generation’s apparent inability to embrace 21st century freedom.

Spill

A comprehensive retrospective of Delhi-based artist Sohrab Hura’s restlessly inventive approach to photography spans genres from fiction to documentary, and formats from photobooks to video and more.

Arrivals and Departures

Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol made a trek from Moscow to Ulan Bator to Beijing in one month — often making more than 1,000 photographs each day for 28 days straight. He reveals his process in this great 5 minute video interview.

Altered Negatives

Where does the photographer’s studio end and nature begin? Julie Hamel’s magical image-objects are whole worlds in themselves; a flurry of overlapping views that mimic the hazy edges of memory.

Desert Dweller

Braving the harsh elements to create a community outside the confines of mainstream society, these portraits introduce us to a motley crew of squatters occupying a corner of the Sonoran Desert.

Parallel Crisis

Years in the making, Yannis Karpouzis’ new book powerfully captures a sense of time stood still and the overlapping crises that unfolded following the Greek financial disaster of 2009.
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