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The Locusts

In this magical portrait of family life in rural Ohio, photographer Jesse Lenz enters the labyrinthian landscape of his children’s world to better understand his own.

Favorite Photobooks of 2020

Personal favorites and recommendations from 36 people who know and love photobooks — lots of inspiring discoveries from around the world.

The Constructed Self

Karen Navarro constructs colorful, hand-crafted kinetic sculptures, creating photographic portraits which are as fluid as identity.

The April Theses

How do you photograph an event that happened a hundred years ago? Davide Monteleone resurrects Lenin’s historic April Theses through a blend of still lifes, landscapes and self-portraits dressed as the man himself.

101 Pictures

Dipping into an archive comprising over 30 years of work, many of these 101 photographs pay tribute to Tom Wood’s mastery of color street photography and his love of humanity in and around Liverpool and Merseyside.

Midnight La Frontera

Photographed over thirty years ago, Ken Light’s nighttime pictures of migrants captured along the US-Mexico border pose some uneasy questions.

Looking Inside

These women are serving life sentences in confinement. Sara Bennett’s collaborative portraits make visible the women impacted by the brutal mechanics of the US prison system, largely outside of the public’s view.

Girl Pictures

Justine Kurland’s take on the classic American tale of the runaway takes us on a wild ride of freedom, memorializing the fleeting moments of adolescence and its fearless protagonists.

Frozen Are the Winds of Time

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.

Art on the Grid

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.

Portraits of my Mother

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.

A Mycological Foray

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

I Read I Write

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.

From Labyrinth

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

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.

Of Poetry and Magic

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.

Pace and Patience

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.

Looking Out From Within

Peeking in from outside her neighbors’ windows, London photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten creates elaborate, cinematic tableaux, voicing their stories from a distance.

When Home Won’t Let You Stay

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.

Concrete Flowers

Working her life-size street photographs into lush and layered collages, Vanja Bucan marries nature and manmade structures into colorful abstract art.

Creative Leaps

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.

Making Room, A Trailblazer in Documentary

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.

Measure and Middle

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.

No Memory is Ever Alone

Catherine Panebianco gives life to pictures from the past by photographing them in new settings, refreshing the ritual and recycling her family’s memories.

#nyc

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.

The Theater of the Street

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

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.

Meeting Sofie

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.

After the Fact

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.

Keeper of the Hearth

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.

Avenue of Roses

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.

Don’t Lie to Me

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.

A Womb of My Own

Through her tactile experiments in analog photography, textile arts, and performance, Brooklyn-based artist Hernease Davis treats the creative process as a healing tool.

to Hans

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.

Perfect Day

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.

this archive has no legs

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.

Yerevan 1996/1997

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.

Photos that Should Not be Possible

In “Wee Muckers – Youth of Belfast”, Toby Binder captures the ebbs and flows of teenage life across the divided communities of Northern Ireland.

The Final Days of Georgian Nomads

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.

Extinction Party

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.
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