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The Faithful
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In her luminous black and white photographs taken over the course of five years at various pilgrimage sites, Alys Tomlinson finds a way to visualize faith and devotion. Every year, around six million flock
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Joining Wonder
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In this book about the lasting impact of war, Binh Danh and Robert Schultz create chlorophyll prints out of leaves found at historical sites in the USA. Photographs by Binh Dahn and Robert Schultz Text
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A Ballad Through Time
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Transforming the family album into folklore, Paul Thulin’s new photobook “Pine Tree Ballads” takes us on a dreamlike summer voyage through the mysterious forests surrounding his family’s home in Grays
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Dead Water
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In these collaborative portraits, Marilene Ribeiro tells another side of the story of Hydroelectricity—a green, renewable energy—by shedding light on the people whose lives have been torn apart by the
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What Makes A House A Home?
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By inserting found photographs throughout each room in a small house in Southern France, The Anonymous Project creates playful installations that illustrate the lasting importance of amateur photography.
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Photography Masterclass Amsterdam 2019-20
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A long-term masterclass for serious photographers working in documentary, photojournalism or visual storytelling. The path to success in visual storytelling is both challenging and rewarding. It requires
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Another Way of Looking At Love
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In a book full of dreamy photographs of nature’s quiet moments, Janelle Lynch invites us to re-enter the natural world and embrace our connection to it. Despite the intense evolution of photography over
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Hidden in Siberia
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Moved by the “symphony of life” that radiates through the streets of Tomsk, Sergey Medvedchikov captures the contrasts and characters of a city in the throes of transition. When I returned to my native
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The Hands That Built This City
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Looking behind the sprawling construction sites and skyscrapers that graze Dubai’s skyline, Polly Tootal turns her lens on the people that built them, capturing the stark contrast between the labour camps
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Between Two Shores
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The Curonian Spit is a peninsula bordered by two shores: the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic sea. In his tranquil, poetic images, Tadas Kazakevičius captures the powerful bond between the inhabitants of
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Home
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Photographing the abandoned spaces of Tehran, Gohar Dashti explores the scars of war, memories of displacement and the eventual triumph of nature over man in this haunting reflection on the idea of ‘home’.
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If
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Anonymous faces come in and out of the shadows as if they were part of a game of hide and seek in this series of mysterious candids, evoking Matteo Didone’s experience of public detachment in Japanese
Minimal Republics
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Constructing “ephemeral micro-states” and occupying them for 24 hours, Rubén Martín de Lucas questions the artificiality of borders and makes stark our fraught relationship with planet earth. Photographs
The Wretched and the Earth
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Documenting the tragic bond between the plight of refugees and the environmental crisis in Cox’s Bazar, Gabriele Cecconi presents a different perspective on the biggest challenges our society faces today.
The Transformative Power of Photography & Text
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By combining poetic prose and pre-existing photographs, this artist duo expands the possibilities for visualizing our emotions and memories through storytelling. Project by Diambra Mariani and Maria Teresa
Domestic Rituals and Real Life Dramas
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In a new exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival, photographer Mary Frey demonstrates the timeless deception of photography. In the constellation of all things photographic, the tension between reality
The Hotel
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By photographing his family in the hotel he was raised in, this photographer constructs a complex emotional landscape that raises questions about our perception of home. The Hotel is a series of photographs
Fluid Forms: Oliva María Rubio’s Take on Art Photography
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Artistic Director Oliva María Rubio offers her thoughts on the shifting landscape of photography and its different forms, where passion and hard work are the only true constants. As photography continues
Experimenting with Tradition: Publishing Insights From TBW Books
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TBW’s founder Paul Shiek and Program Director Lester Rosso discuss the importance of collaboration and maintaining a “punk ethos” in photobook publishing. TBW Books is one of the leading publishers of
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The Power of Collections: Learning From San Francisco’s Pier 24
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Precious insights from Chris McCall, the director of one of America’s preeminent photographic institutions—a unique, contemplative space unlike any other. Since opening to the public in 2010, San Francisco’s
Earshot
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Started in a bid to come to terms with her own experience of hearing loss, Kate Disher-Quill’s project “Earshot” gives an intimate insight into the world of deafness through a constellation of experimental
Oselyata — Portrait of an Unconventional Community in Ukraine
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In a large communal house, 25 people have chosen to live and work together and support each other in a deliberate, loving way. Fifteen years ago, a group of men and women built a house on Ivana Franka
Blessed Be The Fruit
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In the wake of dangerous decisions surrounding abortion legislation and women’s rights, documentary photographer Olivia Harris discusses the necessity of nuance in one of the world’s most polarizing debates.
Images in Transition: Wirephoto 1938-1945
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Using a collection of images from World War II, this new photobook toys with the history of the wirephoto, questioning our reliance on photographs as records of hard evidence. Photobook by David Pace Stephen
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Arabian Transfer: Iconic Architecture and Everyday Street Life
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21st Century urban life assumes new realities — on the streets and in the view of the rest of the world — in these six cities on the Arabian peninsula. Nastasi says, “Arabia is historically a mythical
It’s Called Ffasiwn
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Working with local children, photographer Clémentine Schneidermann and stylist Charlotte James took to the streets of South Wales to create a colourful series of staged tableaux, using fashion as a tool
Elf Dalia
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Enter the mysterious world of Maja Daniels’ “Elf Dalia,” a striking photobook about the town of Älvdalen, where an ancient form of Vikings’ Old Norse is still spoken today. Maja Daniels’ newest book, Dalia,
The Eastern Wood
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How much does place shape our paths in life? Margaret Mitchell’s quiet portraits of children and teens in the Dutch countryside explore what it’s like to grow up in a small, contained environment. The
I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating
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After abandoning portraiture for an entire year, Alec Soth returns to the genre with a new photobook, emphasizing the importance of collaboration while photographing his subjects. The very first image
Portraits and Windows
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After discovering a lost box of photos made by her grandfather in the 1930s, this photographer constructed new visual composites by integrating her own contemporary images, printing everything on traditional

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