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Down Tower Road

What does it mean to really ‘know’ a place? In her visual ode to her hometown of Baldernock just north of Glasgow, Camille Lemoine cultivates a slow and detailed approach to looking at the landscape she grew up in through photography.

Soliloquy

Blending photography’s connection to truth, literature’s approach to fiction and the atmosphere of cinema, Rosie Brock spins a fragmentary tale of redemption and disillusionment in the American South.

LensCulture Exhibition at Leica, New York

LensCulture presents the winning work of seven photographers from the New Visions Awards at the Leica Gallery in New York City.

Mother’s Land: 故土

For over a decade, Los-Angeles-based photographer Daniel Postaer has been exploring China, where his mother was born. Amidst a landscape in transition, he has discovered a side of himself too.

Constant Bloom

Tracing the epic journey of migration undertaken by the Painted Lady butterfly every year—the longest ever discovered—Lucas Foglia explores connections across borders and the challenges we share with other species in the face of the climate crisis.

Việt Kiều — Documenting Vietnamese Diaspora Around the World

Named after a term to describe Vietnamese people outside of Vietnam, “Việt Kiều” is this Sydney-born artist’s growing archive of portraits capturing Vietnamese life across the world.

Characters — Subtle Street Photography from Taiwan

Candid photographs of people taking short breaks far from the chaos of the bustling urban activity in Taipei’s Wanhua District.

When Flies Sit Still

Travelling across the US by car, Morganne Boulden captures a lingering tension that hums through the county, her images reflecting how she feels about the current state it is in.

Flood Me, I’ll Be Here

In his documentation of the Indian island of Majuli, where the climate catastrophe shapes the daily lives of everyone living there, András Zoltai shifts from a destruction-led narrative to one of human perseverance that focuses on our intimate relationship w

El pez muere por la boca / The Fish Dies By Its Mouth

This new photobook blends documentary style with magic realism, challenging perceptions of Colombia often tied to drug trafficking, and revealing complex narratives beneath surface appearances.

Drag/Strip: Portraits of Drag Queens Out of Costume

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.

HER2: The Diagnosed, The Caregiver and Their Son

In this brave account of a family navigating breast cancer, Anna and Jordan Rathkopf turn the camera on each other. Capturing resilience, vulnerability and the tenderness of caregiving, the book offers an honest look at how chronic illness impacts all areas o

Summer Fairies — Luminous Fireflies & the Climate Crisis

Over eight years, Koseki has documented the luminous fireflies of Japan, translating their twinkling flight paths into awe-inspiring photographs, and sounding the alarm about the danger to these creatures caused by human intervention and the climate crisis.

Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home

In her striking collection of portraits, Constance Jaeggi explores Escaramuza—a female-led equestrian performance—and its significance in Mexican-American identity, cementing its place in the monolithic history of the American West.

Jeff Cowen Provence Works

In this 9-minute video interview, photographer Jeff Cowen talks about making an all-new body of work in the south of France — about 60 of the images are being shown at two venues in Amsterdam right now.

Lumes: Rural Depopulation & Cultural Extinction in Galicia

With a thoughtful gaze born from a deep concern for his surroundings, Adra Pallón explores the devastating consequences of rural depopulation on the culture of Galicia, its environment and the last of its aging inhabitants.

I Did Nothing Other Than Tell Them to Smile

As an only child born under China’s one-child policy, Zihan Wei uses a snapshot aesthetic to explore photography as a language of intimacy and connection to forge a new relationship with her parents.

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.
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