In this feverish photographic hallucination, Cristiano Volk takes a critical look at capitalism, capturing the signs and symbols of our consumerist culture in electric shades of neon.
Returning to his childhood neighborhood of Spring Valley, Al J Thompson’s first book is a loving testimony to a shifting landscape and the faces of those living in it.
Riffing on the depiction of women across the history of art, Carlota Guerrero’s own take on the ‘divine feminine’ that unfolds across the pages of her first monograph is a strong and sensual one.
Returning to her childhood home, Tajette O’Halloran confronts her difficult memories through photography, finding beauty and value where once was tragedy.
In this series of introspective portraits taken during lockdown, a young photographer opens up before the lens, exploring her dual heritage with honesty and intimacy.
Moyra Davey dips into the archive of the late American artist Peter Hujar, threading her images together with his to create a photographic duet steeped in the quiet allure of the everyday.
There’s more than meets the eye in these photos of daily life in Poland, taken between 1944 and 1989. A disturbing new book draws together images taken by the secret police to explore photography as a tool of power.
An emerging artist explores the burning issues playing out in public and private across the United States, interrogating ideas around nationalism and militarism as expressed in the intimacy of her own family.
In his latest offering, the unnerving universe of Roger Ballen’s photographs grows another dark layer through the words of Italian poet Gabriele Tinti.
Meet the ‘Climbing Cholitas’ or ‘Cholitas Escaladoras Bolivianas’ — a group of Aymara indigenous women who are breaking stereotypes, scaling mountains, and shifting perceptions.
Prompted by personal loss, Ioanna Sakellaraki embarked on a photographic journey back to her native Greece to immerse herself in the culture of grief and explore its liminal space with her camera.
Curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell, this book surveys the rich and elastic world of black-and-white photography via the works of over 140 artists and essays from Zelony-Mindell, David Campany, and Gregory Eddi-Jones.
An eye-catching group of 80 swimmers, ages 11-76, meets regularly at a lake in Bristol, UK, to practice and perform synchronised swimming and celebrate friendship.
Surrendering himself to the natural cycles of his grandmother’s rural life in southern Poland, Tomasz Kawecki spends lockdown searching for magical creatures in the forests of his childhood.
Overlapping layers of fragmented landscapes, printed words and fingerprint patterns, this Icelandic photographer finds a new perspective on her personal memories and the collective impact we have on the environment.
Transparent Curtains: Aging through the Eyes of Gay Elders
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These men, all over 70, identify themselves as gay and live in Israel. Each portrait is accompanied by a short text, touching on aging, dreams, love, exclusion, and fears.
What is left in the wake of conflict? Drawing on his time on the ground in Iraq and Syria, Ivor Prickett’s book is an enduring record of the people and places caught up in the battle to defeat ISIS.
From his pictures of wars and famines from around the world to his social documentary work in Britain, this retrospective draws together work from all aspects of this British photographer’s remarkable career.
The latest chapter in this photographer’s long-term ode to love goes big — vacuum-packing his subjects in their surroundings to explore the bonds and binds of family.
Using photographic prints from her personal archive as backdrops, Alison Luntz constructs pre-pandemic tableaus tinged with nostalgia in and around her Brooklyn apartment.
Threading together mysteries from her own family history with collective memories, this enigmatic patchwork of documentary and fiction explores the idea of ‘historical truth’ in the transitional period of post-Franco Spain.
In the face of impending ecological crisis, five artists trace our messy, multifaceted entanglement with the natural world through a mutual obsession with rocks.
A sensual document of these trying times, Lisa Sorgini’s series of portraits taken during the pandemic render the complex experience of motherhood in shifting shades of light and darkness.
Quarantined at home for weeks on end, Bill Hickey turned his lens onto his family, finding glimmers of beauty in the mundane to create a document of everyday life during the pandemic.
Photographer Jason Eskenazi traveled throughout Russia before and after the fall of the USSR and created a remarkable photobook that reverberates with the classic structure of dark fairytales.
Embarking on a visual journey through the make-shift world of refugee camps, Sebastian Wells explores the tension between impermanence and permanence that exists in these environments.
Founded by two Greek artists, Zoetrope—an artist-run space in Athens—is rethinking the gallery as an ever-changing centre of experimentation, collectivity and growth.
The latest “New Photography” exhibition at MoMA has migrated online to offer up an immersive, digital experience of the work and process of eight artists asking the question: How do images speak to each other?
Calling the past into the present, Meryl McMaster’s otherworldly self-portraits draw on her Indigenous and European heritage, channeling photography as a tool to reclaim and reimagine these intertwined histories.
Conceptual Photographs, the Neutral in Realism, and More
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A short but wide-ranging conversation: from tactile, tangible connections to the photographic medium, to establishing an honest dialogue with portraiture.
Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend last year’s historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests.
A rite of passage for artists, showing your work can be a pivotal moment in your growth. Emerging Chinese photographer Ronghui Chen shares his personal journey and what exhibiting means to him.
Multiple perspectives crisscross and converge in Poulomi Basu’s docu-fiction “Centralia”, which tells the complex tale of an under-reported conflict between indigenous landowners and the state in central India.
Forging a bridge between our physical and digital realms, Wei Wei’s monochrome images are dispatches from an in-between world—one that is both futuristic and nostalgic.
