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Charles Lee brings Black cowboys to SF Camerawork
Yung Ridah. All images © Charles Lee Charles Lee hopes to confront prejudices in American mythology and give viewers a more balanced representation of US history It was around 2018 that the current...
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Meet me in the darkroom: Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s 25 years of Queer reflexivity
Dark Room Model Study (0X5A1728), 2021. All images courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Paris A pioneer of the early-2000s queer zine movement in New York, Paul Mpagi Sepuya brings...
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Edward Burtynsky on climate, abstraction, and hanging photos like paintings
Pengah Wall #1, Komodo National Park, Indonesia, 2017. All images © Edward Burtynsky. Courtesy Flowers Gallery, London The Canadian artist has captured our scars on the planet for over four decades....
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‘Painting with a mechanical eye’: The unsung mastery of Saul Leiter
Ana, 1950s © Saul Leiter Foundation A new show combines black-and-white and colour images with abstract paintings to convey a uniquely understated, sometimes hidden approach “Photographs are often...
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In a time of global conflict, photo quilts offer unlikely solace
Sudan, Lives Torn Apart by War, 2023 (Original Image 1986). All images © Jenny Matthews and courtesy Street Level Photoworks Jenny Matthews’ work is proof that a camera is a weapon in the hands of...
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Feminism’s lost decade? Artists reflect on today’s turbulent politics
Chapungu – The Day Rhodes Fell, 2015 © Sethembile Msezane Featuring artists from across the world, this south London show surveys lens-based activism beyond straight documentary The last decade has...
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Working-class photographers start their UK tour in Coventry
Eddie Otchere, MC GQ, Elvis Meade, Stoke Newington, Hackney, 1995, Courtesy the artist A new travelling exhibition explores what it means to be a working-class photographer documenting the...
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Portraits to Dream In goes beyond the usual appraisals of art by women
Pamona (Alice Liddell) by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1963. In a new exhibition the National Portrait Gallery, the of works by...
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In Venice, Robert Zhao Renhui is striving for ecological enlightenment
Robert Zhao Renhui in the forest around Gillman Barracks, Singapore, 2023. Portrait and work images all courtesy the artist Ahead of his show at the Venice Biennale, Renhui discusses anthropocentrism...
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Venice Biennale photography review: Is truth enough?
From the series Porcelain Souls © Inuuteq Storch. All images courtesy the artists In the main Foreigners Everywhere exhibition and around Venice, photography fulfils an earnest documentary function...
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