Photography Blog

Exhibition

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 group show put together by a Polish and a Hungarian curator, European Kinship: Eastern European Perspective picks out a shared sensibility across ...

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Archives

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Using archive imagery, collaboration, extreme close-ups and staged photographs, the Iranian photographer delves into portraiture and culture Exploring the wunderkammer collection that underpins University of Oxford’s museum, The Flood recreates part of its magic – and uncovers some moral failings A turbulent ...

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Tanya Traboulsi captures sun-drenched days on Beirut’s coast

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

“Beirut holds vivid childhood memories for me: the scent of orange blossoms, jasmine, and gardenia; checkpoints on the way to school; the saltiness of the corniche air; the blue sky; even the smell of burning garbage. In 1983, amidst the ...

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Photobook

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Running 16 photobooths for more than 50 years, Alan Adler created an archive of self-portraits that test the boundaries of identity and creativity They makeup a handful of stores that have shot to renown for sourcing rare printed matter – here, ...

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Roundups

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

They makeup a handful of stores that have shot to renown for sourcing rare printed matter – here, they share their favourite photo books  Back in the Grand Palais, Paris Photo 2024 was a spectacular return to form in and around ...

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IDEA, High Valley Books and Climax Books: the task of sourcing the rarest photo books and print ephemera

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

In a basement tucket away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, native New Yorker Bill Hall tours around the city’s most fashionable and resourceful – ranging from magazine editors, fashion designers, creative directors and photographers. He’s turned his home into High Valley Books, ...

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Charity

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

With his chronicle of the communities struck by government incompetence, the photographer tells BJP that “it’s important to look at history” The charitable print sale’s co-founder, Isabella van Merle, reveals to Sarah Moroz the stories behind some of the images featured ...

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Book of the Month: How Nick Hedges captured the mid-century housing crisis of ‘slum Britain’

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Home by Nick Hedges is a raw and unfiltered exploration of Britain’s housing crisis during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Created as part of Hedges’ work for Shelter, the National Campaign for the Homeless, the book transcends its immediate ...

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Interviews

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

They makeup a handful of stores that have shot to renown for sourcing rare printed matter – here, they share their favourite photo books  Diane Smyth speaks to the Czech photographer about her career between Prague and England and the resistance ...

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Load More

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Through the lens of 41 photographers, founder Romaisa Baddar’s new book offers an intimate, nuanced glimpse into domestic spaces throughout the region 180 Studios hosts Selah, the largest exhibition of the inimitable photographer and filmmaker to date The artist’s latest show An ...

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Interview

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

After 18 years at C/O Berlin, and three years setting up the fledgling FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, Felix Hoffmann is spearheading its move into a large new home in a historic postwar building Running 16 photobooths for more than 50 years, Alan ...

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Middle East Archive invites us to meditate on the spiritual and material power of the living room

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

In the West, interior design is dictated by an unwritten set of rules: colours, textures and fabrics must correlate, Feng Shui must guide the layout, every item must serve a purpose – the list goes on, but the key objective is to ...

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A new home for photography in Vienna

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

“We are still under construction, but we’re aiming to open on 21 March,” says Felix Hoffmann. “The first day of spring.” It is a gloomy December as we speak but we are discussing bright new beginnings – the permanent home ...

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Intelligence

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

After 18 years at C/O Berlin, and three years setting up the fledgling FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, Felix Hoffmann is spearheading its move into a large new home in a historic postwar building Informed by his own experiences with migration and photography, ...

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bookshelf

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Through the lens of 41 photographers, founder Romaisa Baddar’s new book offers an intimate, nuanced glimpse into domestic spaces throughout the region BJP is saddened to hear that photographer and visual artist Nona Faustine has passed away. In celebration of her ...

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theme in focus

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

These photobooks showcase the work of emerging photographers, students and recent graduates. Many are self-published, and some are still dummies, hopefully, to be published soon Nominated by our Ones to Watch 2021, we present the third and final chapter of our ...

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industry insights

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

After 18 years at C/O Berlin, and three years setting up the fledgling FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, Felix Hoffmann is spearheading its move into a large new home in a historic postwar building As he looks forward to judging the next edition ...

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OPINION

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

A new version of Richard Billingham’s pioneering family project raises the same old questions around access, class and sensation Women’s nipples are censored online while men’s are not, a state of control that has worrying repercussions for artists and marginalised groups Covid-19 ...

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THEN & NOW

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Throughout history, the nude has transitioned from a figure of anatomical intrigue to a token of beauty, and even a political tool. From Weston to Mapplethorpe and into the present day, Joseph Glover unravels the then and now of the ...

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HUMANITY & TECHNOLOGY

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

BJP heads to Jimei in China to find a festival bringing forward a vast programme dissecting immigration, family histories and new technology “Photography works as a home that holds all my enquiries and explorations of the various kinds of human ...

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DECADE OF CHANGE

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Set within the beautiful town of Cadaqués, the festival’s exhibitions engage with their surrounding landscapes “We need to stop treating our land as a commodity and instead as an ecology,” says Bugg, “to do that, we first need to listen to ...

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ON LOCATION

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

The renamed Camera Club of New York builds community in both photography and its local neighbourhood As Unseen Amsterdam opens in the impressive Westergas cultural park, George H King highlights some of the Dutch capital’s less-known photography spaces and initiatives Famed for ...

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PORTRAITURE

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Setting up a mobile studio in a Bolivian market, the photographer offered locals free portraits – Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo speaks with him about collaboration, performance and the societal role of the itinerant photographer Slowly but surely becoming a star, the photographer took ...

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POWER & EMPOWERMENT

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

In his graduate project, this young photographer explores family, identity and the diasporic experience The artist’s multi-part, genre-defying exhibition employs representations of oppression and liberation to examine feminist modes of survival, revolt and self-determination “You just have to keep moving ...

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DOCUMENTARY

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby Italian-Bosnian Rosa Franjic and her partner travelled to the Yemeni island to meet friends working on preserving its staggering biodiversity With his chronicle of ...

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HOME & BELONGING

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Through the lens of 41 photographers, founder Romaisa Baddar’s new book offers an intimate, nuanced glimpse into domestic spaces throughout the region Through his staged photography, Kenneth Lam brings to life the stories embedded in the evolving Museum of the Home ...

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CREATIVE BRIEF

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Our latest edition of Creative Brief dives into the world of Hey Barista, a free magazine celebrating the people and communities that contribute to the world of coffee Now in its second issue, Circus is absurdly large anti-beauty magazine. Here, its ...

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GENDER & SEXUALITY

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

The Tunis-born fashion artist uses photography to express the complications of queer love and personal history Opened by Hashem El Madani in 1953 in Saida, the studio documented many sides of the Lebanese community, a legacy that Akram Zaatari is on ...

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MIXED MEDIA

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

The Lebanese artist blends image-making into her multidisciplinary approach to achieve stylised 3D collages exploring memory and womanhood The artist uses a BlackBerry phone to delve back in time to the 2011 London riots, unravelling an intersection of class, race, ...

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FOR THE RECORD

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

“Truth is the main enemy of a totalitarian regime and truth destroys such a regime” On the morning of 24 February 2022, Ukrainian photographers woke up in a warzone. Many of them, such Mikhail Palinchak, Alina Smutko, Volodymyr Petrov and Pavel ...

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