Photography Blog

A selection of photobooks to look out for this spring

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Ohio, 2020 © Vanessa Winship. The Devil Makes Work For Idle Hands, Irma Christian © Rhiannon Adam. Above: Are My Dreams Too Bold for the Carbon Skin I Bear #1 © Courtesy of Wilfred Ukpong and Blazing Century Studios, Nigeria. Achlys (Mist of ...

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Dayanita Singh: “When I photographed with the Hasselblad, I’d call it my third breast”

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Let’s See. 2021 © Dayanita Singh. Let’s See. 2021 © Dayanita Singh. I am as I am. 1999 © Dayanita Singh. I am as I am. 1999 © Dayanita Singh. Montage I. 2019 © Dayanita Singh. Mona Montage. 2021 © Dayanita Singh. Mona Montage. 2021 © ...

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A vivid journey into Momo Okabe’s psychological landscape

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From ILMATAR © Momo Okabe. From ILMATAR © Momo Okabe. From ILMATAR © Momo Okabe. From ILMATAR © Momo Okabe. From ILMATAR © Momo Okabe. From ILMATAR © Momo Okabe. From ILMATAR © Momo Okabe. Over the last two decades, ...

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Marco Zanella finds love in the Italian countryside

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

ITALY. Cotignola, Emilia-Romagna. Autumn 2019. Aqueduct. ITALY. Cotignola, Emilia-Romagna. Spring 2019. The remains of the statue of the "Segavecchia" after the fire. ITALY. Cotignola, Emilia-Romagna. Summer 2019. Mariani's country house. Enea and Romeo wrestling in the pool for fun. © Marco Zanella. ITALY. ...

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Karla Hiraldo Voleau turns heartbreak into empowerment as she reclaims her story

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Honesty is so important in love and desire,” says Lisa Taddeo. “But we tend to button a lot of things up because we are afraid.” The American author, whose work serves as a searingly honest document of 21st century sexual ...

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Erica Reade photographs lovers on New York’s beaches

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Headstand High © Erica Reade. Hidden in Plain Site © Erica Reade. Not Socially Distancing © Erica Reade. Quiet Contemplation © Erica Reade. Sandwiched © Erica Reade. Summer Isn't Over © Erica Reade. Twist and Turns of You © Erica ...

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Wish you were here: Love and loss in photography

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© Paul Guilmoth. © Deanna Dikeman. © Deanna Dikeman. © Deanna Dikeman. © Paul Guilmoth. © Jess T Dugan When I was a child, I was obsessed with death. Not because I’d lost anything or anyone, but simply because I couldn’t reconcile why we ...

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The Turkish artist elevating wedding photography

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Mehmet Malkoç got into image-making when he was at high school in Turkey, shooting street photography and documentary on 35mm film. Taking a year out before university, he found work in a photo studio where he mostly photographed and filmed ...

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Features

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Slowly but surely becoming a star, the photographer took an unusual route into photography and maintains an idiosyncratic approach to commissions The photographer is at play with the boundaries that confine both their lens-based practice and the socio-political context of their ...

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Zheng Andong questions the colonial legacy of natural history’s nomenclature

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In Zheng Andong’s How to Unname a Tree, the tree is not the romantic subject we’re used to seeing it presented as. Instead, there is something almost ominous about these beings. Trees have a very different understanding of history and ...

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Love

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Mehmet Malkoç spends long periods with guests in rural settings, allowing his photojournalistic style to permeate Through the work of Jess T Dugan, Paul Guilmoth and Deanna Dikeman, the precariousness of life is unpacked As a child, Okabe was shy and introverted. ...

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Awards

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

A rich family history of political struggle and personal responsibility, diverging paths and roads left untrod inform Thero Makepe’s We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here In an award held in partnership with WePresent, four photographers will be chosen to exhibit ...

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Decolonisation

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A rich family history of political struggle and personal responsibility, diverging paths and roads left untrod inform Thero Makepe’s We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here Tamara Abdul Hadi visited the marshes of southern Iraq to reimagine a European photo book ...

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Thero Makepe navigates political struggles and family history across Botswana and South Africa

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In 1958 Thero Makepe’s grandfather, Hippolytus Mothopeng, left South Africa to escape racist Apartheid law. Fleeing to Botswana in what was a semi-exodus of the time, he started anew. Botswana was wealthier and more peaceful than South Africa, still governed ...

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Introducing the 2024 Female in Focus award winners

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“I adore these projects individually but as a pair, they complement each other beautifully,” says editor and curator Naoise O’Keeffe. “While each explores themes of identity, history, self portraiture, and performance, they do so through entirely different photographic styles, shaped ...

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In the Studio with Carolyn Mendelsohn

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©Thomas Duffield ©Thomas Duffield ©Thomas Duffield ©Thomas Duffield ©Thomas Duffield ©Thomas Duffield ©Thomas Duffield ©Thomas Duffield ©Thomas Duffield ©Thomas Duffield ©Thomas Duffield ©Thomas Duffield Her studio is located in the former Wharf St Studios, one of many dynamic arts communities and start-ups in and around Saltaire in West Yorkshire.The incredible regeneration ...

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Illustrating humanity through photojournalism: Meet the participants of the Joop Swart Masterclass 2024

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The Joop Swart Masterclass, an initiative by the World Press Photo Foundation, is a platform that brings together emerging talents in visual storytelling from across the globe. Held in Amsterdam, the programme this year united 12 photographers whose work addresses ...

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Paris Photo returns to the capital with plans of growth and visions of nouveau lens-based art

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

After Olympic fencers and taekwondo athletes marked the reopening of the Grand Palais this summer, attention now turns to Paris Photo in November, an opportunity to experience the historic venue before its official relaunch in 2025. There is an air ...

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Discovery and innovation compliment industry legends at AIPAD’s Photography Show 2025

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

The Photography Show 2025 by AIPAD returns to New York’s Park Avenue Armory from 23 till 27 April, hoping to fuse tradition with innovation. As the longest-running photography fair in the world, AIPAD continues to be a landmark for fine ...

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Varun Aditya, on phone photography, relinquishing control and staying inspired

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

“To ‘Make the Moment’ isn’t about forcing things to happen,” says 34-year-old Indian wildlife photographer Varun Aditya. “It’s about being present and ready when the right moment comes. That’s what I do as a wildlife photographer. It’s about capturing the ...

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Fair

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BJP catches up with Director Lydia Melamed Johnson to learn more about the fair, this year unveiling the new Discovery sector Eager to impress on its return to the Grand Palais, Europe’s biggest photography fair is expanding, seeking expertise from outside ...

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Fine Art

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Celebrated landscape and still life photographer John Blakemore died on 14 January, aged 88. His friend and colleague Paul Hill pays tribute BJP catches up with Director Lydia Melamed Johnson to learn more about the fair, this year unveiling the new ...

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War & Conflict

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby The photographer worked in collaboration with coastal communities in Colombia to advocate against the devastating effects of narcotics The Iranian-British artist spends time volunteering ...

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Youth Culture

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby The Afropean author is back with a touring show, curating working-class photographers to present an alternative reading of class aesthetics Marc Vallée’s self-published zine takes ...

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Watching the Watchers at FORMAT Festival

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FORMAT International Photography Festival returns with the theme “Conflicted” and a programme which “focuses on the many struggles, tensions, and conflicts that define our time”, according to Jodi Kwok, curator of FORMAT and QUAD arts centre, and Jenna Eady, FORMAT ...

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Festival

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Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby BJP explores The Tree of Life: A Love Letter to Nature, the festival’s ninth edition in Milan A rich family history of political struggle and ...

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Festivals

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby Held in Hyderabad since 2015, Indian Photo Festival is the country’s longest-running international photography festival, including images from around the world as well as ...

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History

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby A turbulent decade riven by social and political change, the 1980s were also fertile ground for British photography

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Book of the Month: Lebanon, India and Paris through the eyes of Marilyn Stafford

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Marilyn Stafford’s remarkable career began with an extraordinary opportunity to shoot stills of Albert Einstein in 1948. What followed was a life of travel, exploration, and an eclectic body of work spanning decades and continents. From photographing celebrities like Twiggy ...

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Agenda

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

180 Studios hosts Selah, the largest exhibition of the inimitable photographer and filmmaker to date The artist’s latest show An Ominous Presence explores the tension between desire, identity, and the act of image-making Bound by Two Homes blends Iranian cultural iconography with ...

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