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Q&A: Luce Lebart from the AMC-backed Canadian Photography Institute
Luce Lebart has hopped across the Atlantic Ocean to take the helm of the newly-minted Canadian Photography Institute (CPI) after five years as the collection director and curator of the Société...
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Wandering through the Irish capital in Krass Clement’s Dublin
Famously elusive, and unwilling to to discuss his work, the only way to get to an insight into Krass Clement’s photography is through the images themselves – but even they are cloaked in mystery....
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Regimes of Truth at LagosPhoto Festival 2017
“Over the last century a number of writers and thinkers have predicted our contemporary society’s information and knowledge quandary: Achebe, Flaubert, Huxley and Orwell being germane examples,”...
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“Culturally rich, economically poor” inner-city life shapes Omar Khaleel’s work
For Omar Khaleel, fashion is personal. Using his native Birmingham as a backdrop for his editorial commissions and portraits, he shapes his work according to the details and textures of British urban...
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A different take on the city in Susannah Ray’s New York Waterways
For Susannah Ray to get into the centre of New York city, she must first travel over a series of bridges and waterways. Whether driving across Jamaica Bay or taking the subway from her home in Rockaway...
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Shortlist announced for 2018 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
It’s the 21st year of the prize, and this year the shortlisted projects by Mathieu Asselin, Rafal Milach, Batia Suter, and Luke Willis Thompson all “reflect a shared concern with the production and...
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Susan Meiselas’ A Room of Their Own
“The moment I entered the refuge, I felt connected to their mission,” says Susan Meiselas of her recent work in the Black Country, at a refuge for women who have escaped domestic violence. “When I...
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Marc Ohrem-Leclef’s new series explores male intimacy in India
“He said that holding hands in public was something special, like being visible to everyone but hiding something,” says Marc Ohrem-Leclef. “A man I interviewed told me that. I thought it summed things...
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Sean Hemmerle’s portraits from Afghanistan and Iraq
“These pictures were originally intended as a sort of ‘Fuck you’ to the Bush administration,” says Sean Hemmerle. “I never thought after he was gone we would eventually end up with someone that made...
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Tina Hillier sees a brighter side to Ethiopia in a quirky commission from Oxfam
The visual language NGOs use to show the developing world is often sombre, designed to shock our senses by highlighting the desperate situations of communities fleeing persecution or natural disaster....
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Suppressed memories of war in Frederike Helwig’s Kriegskinder
“I was born in 1968 in West Germany – that’s 23 years after 1945,” says Frederike Helwig. “One of my first memories of seeing images of the war was at my grandmother’s house, watching an antiwar movie...
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The Shadow Archive, vernacular portrait photography at The Walther...
The Walther Collection has kicked off an 18-month exploration of vernacular photography with a show titled The Shadow Archive: An Investigation into Vernacular Portrait Photography. Taken from the...
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Lua Ribeira, Sam Laughlin, and Alejandra Carles-Tolra show new work in...
Inspired by personal identity, the natural world, and the fear of dying, the three young artists in this year’s Jerwood/Photoworks Awards exhibition are presenting very different work. Picked out as...
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Nicola Lo Calzo finds freedom and community in the Afro-Cuban legacy
For the past seven years Nicola Lo Calzo has worked tirelessly on CHAM, a project exploring the enduring impact of colonialism and slavery on the African diaspora. In capturing different manifestations...
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New magazine Clove puts the spotlight on South Asian creativity
Launched on 11 December, a brand new biannual, Clove, has a refreshing take on art and culture. Founded by London-based, British-Indian journalist Debika Ray, the magazine focuses on creative work from...
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Thomas Sauvin and Lei Lei’s Hand-colored gives a new life to old photos
“I collect a lot of stuff, and sometimes I like to see it as raw material I could use to tell another story and do something new,” says Thomas Sauvin. Hand-colored, his project with Chinese animator...
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Luis Weinstein’s Best of 2017
Andres Figueroa’s Bailarines del desierto A very nice book from this author, fine work by a craftsman who will go far into the desert with his big view camera and kind spirit to portray dancers and...
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Megan Doherty’s Instagram feed I love Megan’s feed and that fact you can’t define her photography. Part observer, part participator, and mixing fashion, incidental and personal work, Megan’s life...
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Presence Festival This autumn we held the Presence festival for the second year in a row. It was organised around the idea of perceiving photography not just as an aesthetic object, but as a process....
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Alexander Chekmenev’s Passport, published by Dewi Lewis Alexander Chekmenev was one of the photographers assigned by the city of Luhansk, eastern Ukraine to make passport photographs of bedridden and...
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