Photography Blog

LANDSCAPE

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Celebrated landscape and still life photographer John Blakemore died on 14 January, aged 88. His friend and colleague Paul Hill pays tribute in relation to their own diverse experiences, cultures and practices, Phumzile Khanyile, Atika Zata, Chase Barnes, Heja Rahiminia, Leia ...

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PICTURE THIS

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Here, Tim Richmond, Jörg Colberg, Joselito Verschaeve, Jessica Gianelli, Moe Suzuki, and Julia Gat reflect on the concept of time in relation to an image from their archive Ken Grant, Lin Zhipeng, Ying Ang, Sophie Gladstone, Ana Vallejo, and Craig Easton ...

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PARENTHOOD

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Among illustrating the emotional and chaotic reality of becoming a mother, Galdi’s new book – Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back – is ultimately a story of unconditional love Kunath’s project, titled Naduu, pictures young women and ...

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ART & ACTIVISM

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 self-taught photographer’s project Kash Hamam celebrates an ancient tradition, despite the vilification of its players played out against local social stigma Following ...

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ANY ANSWERS

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

The East Wing artistic director shares her insights on non-profits, commercialising photography, and why you don’t need a physical space to nurture talent Ahead of a new show pairing Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron, we get to know the National ...

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FINE ART

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

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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IN THE STUDIO

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Nearly a decade after winning BJP’s Breakthrough Single Image award, Adama Jalloh has become a trusted portrait photographer Playful yet deadly serious, Mari Katayama’s studio is testament to her fiercely independent approach to art and creativity In an old mill overhanging the ...

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Projects

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby Margarita Galandina and Alice Poyzer are the series winners of BJP’s 2024 Female in Focus; and this year, BJP is introducing a People’s Choice ...

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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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Savino Carbone challenges photojournalistic tradition in Iraq

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Iraq boasts a diverse and complex cultural landscape beyond the country’s inaccurate representations in the media – one which drew Italian photographer Savino Carbone in. Through his lens, he explores the deep-rooted traditions of Iraq’s Shia communities, revealing how religious ...

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Money & Power

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Years before social media, the photographer was already critical of our obsession with celebrity culture and mocked the idea of spectacle The Greek photographer’s latest solo show blends his photography with found imagery to create an actively critical voice, ...

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Revisiting Weegee in an epoch where image and illusion is king

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

“In post-industrial societies where mass production and media predominate,” begins Guy Debord’s seminal work Society of the Spectacle, “life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly experienced has been replaced with its representation in the ...

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latest

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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Latin America

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’s new book with Loose Joints is in dialogue with his previous projects documenting migration

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“Photography is a consequence of something else”: Tracing the Rio Bravo with Felipe Romero Beltrán

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

In The Book of Trespass, Nick Hayes – co-founder of the Right to Roam campaign – argues that though borders exist in nature in the form of mountains, rivers and ravines, they are more often than not “areas of transaction, ...

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Hassan Hajjaj celebrates a global village in true Maghrebi fashion

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

The relationship between gallerist Hannah Traore and artist Hassan Hajjaj is not a new one. The two were acquainted when Traore first opened her namesake gallery in New York at 27 – Hajjaj was so impressed with the young Traore, ...

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Community

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Margarita Galandina and Alice Poyzer are the series winners of BJP’s 2024 Female in Focus; and this year, BJP is introducing a People’s Choice category for one outstanding image in the award The Italian photographer spent years in Iraq focusing on ...

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Social History

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Repressed under communism, Polish photography burst into new life after 1989 and is now creatively evolving again, says Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska, director of the Museum of Warsaw What Did You Want to See? at Ikon Gallery turns the lens on Birmingham’s Muslim ...

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Playtime in Poland, where photography is enjoying its rebirth

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Polish photography is having a moment. In fact, it has been having a moment for the past two decades. Historically, the photography scene has been defined and influenced – and at times curtailed – by war and political instability. But ...

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Diane Smyth

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 BJP is saddened to hear that photographer and visual ...

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SWANA region

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 The photographer challenged the status quo of Moroccan education through surrealism in The Classroom, now published by Loose Joints People ...

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From classrooms to living rooms and donkeys: Moroccan sensibilities according to Hicham Benohoud

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Born in Marrakech in 1968, Benohoud studied visual arts at Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in France, before returning to Morocco to teach high school art to 11-15 year-olds in 1987. He quickly became bored with the rigidity of the ...

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Emma Russell

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

The photographer challenged the status quo of Moroccan education through surrealism in The Classroom, now published by Loose Joints The Studio — Staging Desire at Autograph Gallery explores the late Nigerian photographer’s practice centred around queer expression The Spirit of Lagos showcases ...

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Steve McQueen casts his eye on the act of resistance at Turner Contemporary

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

Photography has long been a tool of resistance (which is why our latest issue is focused on the subject). From the smuggled images of uprisings to the carefully framed moments of defiance, the camera has long been an accomplice to ...

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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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Childhood

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

The photographer challenged the status quo of Moroccan education through surrealism in The Classroom, now published by Loose Joints

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Reframing identities in Hungary: “moving beyond a dated dialogue around Eastern Europe”

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

The idea of a common cultural heritage in Central and Eastern Europe is at once visceral and conceptual, informed by sweeping social, political and infrastructural histories that have played out in a diverse region. Attempting to harness some kind of ...

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Catherine Troiano

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

The vibrant photography scene in Hungary and beyond testifies to the urgent need to update outmoded conceptions of Central and Eastern Europe, argues curator and researcher Catherine Troiano

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European Kinship

Published on April 4, 2025 via 1854

The vibrant photography scene in Hungary and beyond testifies to the urgent need to update outmoded conceptions of Central and Eastern Europe, argues curator and researcher Catherine Troiano Repressed under communism, Polish photography burst into new life after 1989 and is ...

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