Surrendering himself to the natural cycles of his grandmother’s rural life in southern Poland, Tomasz Kawecki spends lockdown searching for magical creatures in the forests of his childhood.
Overlapping layers of fragmented landscapes, printed words and fingerprint patterns, this Icelandic photographer finds a new perspective on her personal memories and the collective impact we have on the environment.
Transparent Curtains: Aging through the Eyes of Gay Elders
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These men, all over 70, identify themselves as gay and live in Israel. Each portrait is accompanied by a short text, touching on aging, dreams, love, exclusion, and fears.
What is left in the wake of conflict? Drawing on his time on the ground in Iraq and Syria, Ivor Prickett’s book is an enduring record of the people and places caught up in the battle to defeat ISIS.
From his pictures of wars and famines from around the world to his social documentary work in Britain, this retrospective draws together work from all aspects of this British photographer’s remarkable career.
The latest chapter in this photographer’s long-term ode to love goes big — vacuum-packing his subjects in their surroundings to explore the bonds and binds of family.
Using photographic prints from her personal archive as backdrops, Alison Luntz constructs pre-pandemic tableaus tinged with nostalgia in and around her Brooklyn apartment.
Threading together mysteries from her own family history with collective memories, this enigmatic patchwork of documentary and fiction explores the idea of ‘historical truth’ in the transitional period of post-Franco Spain.
In the face of impending ecological crisis, five artists trace our messy, multifaceted entanglement with the natural world through a mutual obsession with rocks.
A sensual document of these trying times, Lisa Sorgini’s series of portraits taken during the pandemic render the complex experience of motherhood in shifting shades of light and darkness.
Quarantined at home for weeks on end, Bill Hickey turned his lens onto his family, finding glimmers of beauty in the mundane to create a document of everyday life during the pandemic.
Photographer Jason Eskenazi traveled throughout Russia before and after the fall of the USSR and created a remarkable photobook that reverberates with the classic structure of dark fairytales.
Embarking on a visual journey through the make-shift world of refugee camps, Sebastian Wells explores the tension between impermanence and permanence that exists in these environments.
Founded by two Greek artists, Zoetrope—an artist-run space in Athens—is rethinking the gallery as an ever-changing centre of experimentation, collectivity and growth.
The latest “New Photography” exhibition at MoMA has migrated online to offer up an immersive, digital experience of the work and process of eight artists asking the question: How do images speak to each other?
Calling the past into the present, Meryl McMaster’s otherworldly self-portraits draw on her Indigenous and European heritage, channeling photography as a tool to reclaim and reimagine these intertwined histories.
Conceptual Photographs, the Neutral in Realism, and More
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A short but wide-ranging conversation: from tactile, tangible connections to the photographic medium, to establishing an honest dialogue with portraiture.
Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend last year’s historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests.
A rite of passage for artists, showing your work can be a pivotal moment in your growth. Emerging Chinese photographer Ronghui Chen shares his personal journey and what exhibiting means to him.
Multiple perspectives crisscross and converge in Poulomi Basu’s docu-fiction “Centralia”, which tells the complex tale of an under-reported conflict between indigenous landowners and the state in central India.
Forging a bridge between our physical and digital realms, Wei Wei’s monochrome images are dispatches from an in-between world—one that is both futuristic and nostalgic.
Virtual Exhibitions: Digital Spaces, Open Possibilities
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When was the last time you went to an exhibition? Writer Magali Duzant takes a tour around the Internet, exploring the many possibilities of exhibiting online.
Founder of Native Agency, Laura Beltrán Villamizar, takes a look at a celebration of Latin American photography at PHmuseum, which offers a chance to discover an eclectic assortment of artists disrupting clichés of the region.
The discovery of an abandoned archive reveals an extraordinary document of everyday life in Georgia under Soviet rule, prompting photographer Guram Tsibakhashvili to seek out the mysterious identity of its creator.
Revisiting the suburbs of her childhood, Mimi Plumb’s monochrome coming-of-age tale strips California of its clichés, confronting the monotony of growing up in a time-weathered landscape.
Working with Ghanaian children on Lake Volta, humanitarian photographer and cinematographer Jeremy Snell’s luminous images tell a serious and urgent story.
Photographer Adam Wiseman explores the fanciful freestyle structures that are built throughout rural Mexico without regard for building codes or classical ideas of beauty in architecture.
Finally free from the censorship of the US military, Ben Brody shares his first-person view into the absurdities of army life as a combat photographer in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In his latest book “Late Harvest”, Forest McMullin travels the backroads of the American South as a newcomer, discovering beauty in landscape, history and story.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
