Returning to her hometown in China after many years away, Wang Lu’s images grapple with time and change, from her personal relationship with her father to the shifting cityscape outside his window.
A public art exhibition sprawling through the streets of New York reaffirms the powerful role of art in daily life whilst reimagining the experience of looking at art during the pandemic.
For the past 8 years, Joey Solomon has been photographing his mother. In the process of taking these monochrome portraits, he attempts to unpack their shared and hereditary mental illness.
Seeking solace from the multiple crises we are facing, many people are turning to one of nature’s most resilient entities: the mushroom. This publication takes us on a lush, multi-layered drift through the archives of a lifelong devotee—experimental music
Born from her own experience, Laura Boushnak’s epic long term project celebrates the stories of women across Arab countries whose lives have been transformed by education.
Delving into the uncertainty felt by his generation, Iranian photographer Farshid Tighehsaz’s gritty monochrome images penetrate the fears and tensions of the collective unconscious.
26 Black-and-White Photography Favorites from LensCulture
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LensCulture’s editors revisit 26 of the most popular black-and-white recent articles that feature black-and-white photography – portfolios, essays, interviews, exhibitions and book reviews.
Munem Wasif has honed his monochromatic way of visually interpreting the world. This juror for LensCulture’s Black and White Awards reveals the details that affect him most through the language of photography.
Owner and director of the venerable gallery Jackson Fine Art, Anna Walker Skillman draws on 17 years of being a gallerist to share her wisdom for navigating the art world. Tip one: trust your instincts.
Peeking in from outside her neighbors’ windows, London photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten creates elaborate, cinematic tableaux, voicing their stories from a distance.
Using a box camera, Bangladeshi photographer Shahria Sharmin’s arresting portraits bear witness to the plight of the Rohingya youth living in camps in the south of the country.
Senior Photo Editor of TIME Magazine, Thea Traff has an empowering message for photographers. Drawing on her work as an editor and photographer, she shares her top tips for making work that gets noticed.
Since the 1980s, British artist Anna Fox has challenged power structures both in her work and the space in which she makes it, paving the way for women in a male-dominated documentary tradition.
Exploring our ‘new normal’ with a tender and stoic eye, Ingmar Björn Nolting’s delicate vignettes of daily life take us on a journey around Germany during the Covid-19 crisis.
Catherine Panebianco gives life to pictures from the past by photographing them in new settings, refreshing the ritual and recycling her family’s memories.
A sharp new take on ‘street’ photography, Jeff Mermelstein’s new book captures the dazzling highs and lows of everyday life in New York through the phone screens of its citizens.
Curious about the changing nature of our relationship with public space and how we move through it, this photographer’s sharp observations dissect the minute interactions that play out on the street.
A Transdisciplinary Memorial to Millions Lost in 1932-33 Soviet Ukraine
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How can something beautiful provide evidence of the atrocious? This project grapples with the millions of Soviet Ukrainian deaths under Stalin’s policy of forced starvation in the early 1930s.
This elegant coming-of-age series follows a young woman with Down syndrome as she experiences love, friendship and the nurturing bonds with her mother and nature.
Canadian photographer Tony Fouhse traces the fascinations that have fueled his long and varied career, leading him to his latest project: a dystopian take on his familiar surroundings.
A new book brings together 200 artists, writers and thinkers to make a beautiful, polyphonic ode to Roland Barthes’ famed ‘Winter Garden’ photograph—a deeply personal image of his mother that he writes about, but never discloses.
Cinematographer Kevin Fletcher stepped into the shoes of a photographer and took to the streets for this year-long project: a love letter to the complexities of his hometown, Portland.
Through layers of mind-bending work, Brazilian artist Paulo Coqueiro weaves a photo-based approach to writing — revealing mysteries and mistruths surrounding the disappearance of photojournalist Tito Ferraz.
Through her tactile experiments in analog photography, textile arts, and performance, Brooklyn-based artist Hernease Davis treats the creative process as a healing tool.
A quiet ode to a brother loved and lost, Vivian Keulards’ book “to Hans” finds a form to dwell on the human stories behind addiction, and the complex web it spins around those it touches.
Txema Salvans’ sun-soaked images of the Mediterranean capture the contradictions of contemporary existence, where holidaymakers lounge against the backdrop of a looming post-industrial landscape.
Inviting strangers to go through his photographs, Srinivas Kuruganti’s five day experiment turned the personal public, exploring the fluidity of narrative and the boundaries of the archive.
First conceived as a visual letter to her daughter, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s recent book gives us an architectural portrait of a city in transition, photographed not long after the collapse of Communism.
In her delicate study of everyday life in the region of Mountainous Adjara, located in Western Georgia, Natela Grigalashvili documents a way of life and rich culture at risk of disappearing.
A riot of garish colors and plastic (or sad-looking real fast food burgers), Jonathan Blaustein’s still lifes subvert the visual language of product photography to explore the themes of American consumption and consumerism.
What is at stake now that we can travel the world through a screen? In her hand-colored photographs, sourced from virtual tours of national parks hosted on Google, Brea Souders invokes the romanticism and tradition of landscape photography to question its sta
Rebelling against the conservative conventions of schooling in Poland, Karolina Wojtas has given a carte blanche to her inner child, resulting in an explosion of mess, materials and experimentation.
In his long term exploration of masculinity, Bharat Sikka intertwines the personal and the collective by continually finding new ways to investigate and represent his homeland, India.
Kim Llerena’s “American Scrapbook” gives a fresh riff on the classic roadtrip, deftly collecting signs and symbols of the collective American sensibility as she drives through the landscape.
Is the whole greater than the sum of its individual parts? We take a look at the ups and downs of being in a photography collective through the lens of four different collectives from around the world.
Ivorian artist Joana Choumali instinctively responded to a national tragedy four years ago by embroidering on a series of photographs she had made with her iPhone — the results are images of hope and healing.
An online exhibition at MoMA pays tribute to the iconic photographer Dorothea Lange, whose work and legacy has never felt more relevant when viewed against the backdrop of our changing world.
