Do Your Research: Advice On Finding Your Angle and Standing Out
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We spoke with curator, editor and photobook expert Yumi Goto about the foundation of artists’ commitment to their work, the value of local storytelling, and the critical research that can push a project to the next level.
The time between adolescence and adulthood is fraught with mercurial shifts in mood, awkward bodies, and charged interactions—”a crucial time in our lives that we can never get back.”
One of the newest Magnum nominees (and also one of the collective’s youngest members), Diana Markosian brings a fresh, sensitive approach to documentary photography—learn more about this dynamic image-maker.
16 photographers are canvasing Britain to capture how 16-year olds view the future of their country—people from widely varied backgrounds all bonded by the fact that they will live with today’s electoral decisions for many years to come.
Police in Spain hold shows—demonstrations of force—in bullfighting arenas, often in front of an audience of schoolchildren. An unnerving series pieced together from videos of this spectacle.
Buzzing at the Sill: Gazing Into America’s Dark Future
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In the long photographic tradition of trying to understand America comes this urgent new work, which looks head-on into the country’s deepening fractures.
La Creciente: Island Life in Argentina’s Paraná Delta
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Living among islands in a river delta for three years, a photographer captures a series of nighttime portraits that convey the visual and poetic impact of a life surrounded by flowing water.
For well over a decade, the distinctive voice and eye of Alec Soth have inspired photographers all over the world—discover his spare, poetic wisdom in this enlightening interview.
In 2014, the Iraqi city of Mosul fell into ISIS’ hands. In October 2016, the effort to liberate it began. Months later, the titanic struggle continues; the scale of destruction has surprised everyone but ISIS.
An exhibition in Paris includes 12 never-before-seen self-portraits by the great Josef Koudelka—as well as a reflection on the strength and vulnerability that marked his personal vision.
In the eastern corner of Turkey, entire communities go about their days without the constant hum of dislocated communication. Looking at their lives, we can ask ourselves: what have we lost in the midst of our dizzying technological gains?
A video interview with award-winning photographer Souvid Datta about life as a photojournalist: “Pictures are now, more than ever, at the forefront of how stories need to be told.”
The Mundari people depend on their cattle for survival: they are a form of currency and indicators of status, and thus are defended at all costs. Delve into tribal life in South Sudan through this award-winning series.
Idiosyncratic images that pull you into the vibrant, fragmentary experiences of Istanbul’s young, creative inhabitants—all set against the stark backdrop of the city’s increasingly restrictive politics.
Memory Unearthed: A Photojournalist in the Holocaust
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Heartrending shots from inside the Lodz ghetto—taken by a Jewish photojournalist who took extraordinary measures to ensure that his negatives would survive the atrocities of war.
An ongoing struggle has united thousands of people—representing hundreds of tribes and non-indigenous groups from across the United States—to oppose the building of an environmentally destructive pipeline. The fight, against all obstacles, continues.
The Picture That Changed My Life: Interview with David Hurn
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Seminal photographer and educator David Hurn talks to LensCulture about the photograph that inspired him to start his career, his most important work and the “essential problem of photography.”
At the beginning of the 20th century, a ship full of Korean workers landed in Yucatan, Mexico—this award-winning photo-series poetically reflects on the memories of their Korean-Mayan descendants.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a ship full of Korean workers landed in Yucatan, Mexico—this award-winning photo-series poetically reflects on the memories of their Korean-Mayan descendants.
Photographs from this important new book feature children born after 1994 in Rwanda and South Africa: “young people who inherited the racial and tribal divisions that fractured their countries and left them to pick up the pieces.”
Taking cues from photographers like Aaron Siskind and Martin Parr, this series confronts current trends—stylistic, societal, political—in the increasingly grim landscape of contemporary Russia.
After decades as Poland’s “El Dorado,” the industrialized economy of Upper Silesia crashed and burned, leaving its residents jobless and adrift. Today, even as a new identity forms, the past still lurks in the shadows.
Balancing on the edge between real and fictional worlds, these photographs grapple with the psychological responses—exhaustion, depression—that are a consequence of our hyperactive world.
How are rapid changes in technology, politics and culture shaping the way we live? Free-ranging artist Wolfgang Tillmans explores this concept in his blockbuster exhibition.
Compositions—comprised of old family photos, living plants, and fabric that was passed down through generations—tell the story of the photographer’s childhood farmhouse in Germany.
Caught in a terrible bind—El Salvador’s women have been told to abstain from pregnancy from two years due to the Zika virus, and yet they live in a country where rape is rampant, abortions result in decades of jail time, and even legitimate miscarriages a
Massive monuments raised by the former states of Yugoslavia praised the successes of a more egalitarian, antifascist society. Recent developments, however, question how much progress has really been made.
The five photographers shortlisted for this year’s Deutsche Börse award tackle emotional, personal, and cultural histories in an inspiring, diverse showing.
Moving Portrait of a City: Under Philadelphia’s El Train
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A 13-mile-long tangle of engineered metal, Philadelphia’s El train snakes through the city—this series delves even deeper, looking at how the urban fabric twists around its dark underbelly.
