El pez muere por la boca / The Fish Dies By Its Mouth
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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
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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.
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
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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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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
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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
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Here are 15 of LensCulture’s most popular highlights from 2023 — a mix of new discoveries, photobook reviews, interviews, essays, exhibitions and visual stories.
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.
This spectral offering transports us into a landscape populated by anonymous figures and restless animals, navigating their way through the dead of the night.
39 curators, artists, editors and other photography experts reveal their personal favorite photobooks from 2021 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations.
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.
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
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
