With her razor-sharp eye for detail, Solène Gün shows a gentle side of everyday life in the banlieues of Paris and Berlin that is rarely seen by outsiders.
Naima Green’s card deck rebels against the four standard suits: each of the 54 cards sports a unique portrait celebrating a spectrum of queer women, non-binary and trans people.
Naima Green’s card deck rebels against the four standard suits: each of the 54 cards sports a unique portrait celebrating a spectrum of queer women, non-binary and trans people.
Ten portraits along the railway lines of Ukraine give us a glimpse of traditional jobs that still value the human touch in the ever-changing 21st Century.
Italian photographer Carolina Repezzi unfolds the story behind this arresting portrait of a young water seller, taken in the Agbogbloshie e-waste scrapyard in Ghana.
Andrea Gjestvang’s intimate project reflects on the intricacies of the asylum-seeking process in Norway, foregrounding the emotional toll it takes on the families involved.
Picture editor at The Sunday Times Magazine, Russ O’Connell, sheds light on his role at the widely-respected publication and what he looks for when commissioning photographers for the all-important cover shoot.
With over 12 years experience under her belt, gallerist Dina Mitrani shares some wisdom about creating a space for photography in Miami and embracing abstract approaches to portraiture.
How do you define excellence when so much of photography is constantly changing and reinventing itself? Manolis Moresopoulos, Director of the Athens Photo Festival, shares his insights.
Portrait photographer Laura Stevens has achieved a great level of success since winning an Emerging Talent Award in 2014—and she shares some pearls of wisdom for others embarking on a similar journey.
The Ukrainian rail industry gets a technicolor makeover in Julie Poly’s vibrant photographs, where long train journeys are filled with fun and fantasy.
Robin Rhode creates wildly colorful visual ‘events’ that bring energetic humor and art to the streets of otherwise tough neighborhoods in Johannesburg.
Tate Modern’s retrospective on the much-overlooked surrealist pioneer Dora Maar shines a light on a radical and experimental vision that stretched across different genres and mediums.
Curator Eve Schillo reflects on how she’s watched our relationship to photography evolve during her time at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she has worked hard at bringing photography into conversation with other art forms.
Poetic and evocative, Jonathan Levitt’s new book “Echo Mask” takes us on a drift through moody maritime landscapes and the wilds of nature around Maine and Newfoundland.
In her embroidered photographs of landscapes in Berlin, Diane Meyer resurfaces the ghostly trace of the wall that once separated East and West Germany to reflect on the scars that have marked the country’s history.
Taking its inspiration from our everyday habits, many of which we enact without a second thought, a delicate series that creates new visual stories rich with emotion and feeling.
Steering away from often problematic, graphic imagery of war, these reflective ‘portraits’ of prosthetic limbs found in Afghanistan speak to the civilian experience of conflict.
The dazzling imagination of Duane Michals is brought to life in a new exhibition that brings his photographs into conversation with objects, paintings, drawings and books, inviting viewers into the artist’s inner world.
Disrupting the photographic gaze through drawing, text and digital manipulation, Madhavan Palanisamy creates an offbeat tribute to his father that is brimming with wonder.
Jeff Bridges gets behind the lens in his new book “Pictures: Volume Two”, which gives us an intimate glimpse into the magic of cinema in its vistas of set life.
Between the Anvil and the Hammer: Confronting Culture
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In Maxim Dondyuk’s new book, Ukraine’s 2013-2014 civil unrest is rendered as a conflict between shadows and light, snow and fire, two generations, and two layers of culture colliding on the territory of a single country.
Confronting the contradictions of her upbringing and surroundings head on, this Mexican photographer’s raw images conjure a world that is strange, brutal and beautiful.
Both bewitching and sinister, these staged photographs take a contemplative approach to the news stories of gruesome violence that reach Bangladesh’s headlines every day.
How to keep up? Editor at Large for Special Projects at TIME magazine Paul Moakley shares his insights on why the still image is a powerful tool of communication in our age of distraction.
This fun, collaborative graphic novel photobook from La Paz, Bolivia, presents the city’s 3,000 shoe shiners as heroes with superpowers who help all of local humanity.
What else can photography uncover besides what is physically present in front of the lens? This 16-year project has criss-crossed the globe exploring the mystical, otherwordly beliefs of the Spiritualist community.
Necessary Words: “Conversations on Conflict Photography”
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This new book is a vital text that brings together some of photojournalism’s most prominent voices to reflect on the ethics of conflict photography in our increasingly image-saturated world.
Photographed in and around Miami, Anastasia Samoylova’s latest book, “FloodZone”, is an urgent and brooding reflection on the rising sea levels rapidly submerging the city and its environs.
