Befriending a colorful circus master just before the pandemic, photographer Davide Bertuccio captured a life full of color and resilience, charting the growth of a new friendship despite these trying times.
A new book brings a generosity of vision and humanity to small regions of Appalachia — as seen by a resident and former photojournalist whose heritage as an Indigenous Mexican and Filipino plays an important part, too.
Ying Ang’s new photobook is an extended self-portrait referencing sleepless nights, the melancholy haze of new motherhood, and the psychological space created by bringing a new life into the world.
One of the millions of college students forced to study at home due to the pandemic, this photographer returned to a state of childhood play—this time swapping imaginary games for images.
Charting the everyday life of Thay, a young woman living in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, this multimedia project documents the warm, strong community that exists in the midst of a violent, unsafe world.
Scouring markets for discarded photo albums, Pariwat Anantachina’s intricate collages patchwork old family snaps with instruction manuals, breathing new life into abandoned pictures.
Using his own body as a playground to explore queerness, Matthieu Croizier twists and turns his way through a personal metamorphosis captured in these carefully staged images.
Meet 30 of the first gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders and intersex people (*LGBTIs) who dared to openly embrace their sexual orientation — now all over 70 years of age and living in The Netherlands.
Diana Markosian takes on the role of director in this cinematic project, restaging her family’s emigration from post-Soviet Russia to America into a surreal rendition of the immigrant experience.
Exceptional new street photography is the focus of a new exhibition in Paris that features 30 women photographers from 20 countries — here’s a generous preview of 7 artists from the show.
In her moving portraits and melancholic landscapes, Ashfika Rahman pieces together the hidden stories of young people who have been wrongly detained by police in Bangladesh.
In Julia Chang-Lomonico’s family portraits, an unassuming character takes center stage: the living room couch—a stable marker of time amidst the chaos and evolution of family life.
Using photography as a therapeutic tool, Sima Choubdarzadeh’s images protest the repression of women in Iran’s public sphere, channeling anger into intimate moments of connection and revelation.
Inviting his subjects to his Californian backyard with a week’s worth of their trash in tow, Gregg Segal’s confronting portraits draw attention to our careless relationship to waste.
Across the world, students are graduating after an unimaginable year. With help from their fellow classmates, artist and writer Dylan Hausthor reflects on the wild ride of completing an MFA amidst the chaos of 2020.
Since moving from in front of the lens to behind it, Ming Smith has forged a groundbreaking career around her lyrical, loving images of African American life, drawn together in this new monograph.
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.
