Magnum Photos today announces the official launch of its new website for independent storytelling. Out of its beta pilot, the platform brings the history agency’s photography community to an online, global audience, through an editorial programme of new and archival stories.
For more than a decade, Benson has used raw image data from robotic interplanetary missions to create large-format landscape photographs of the planets, their moons and the Sun. An exhibition of new and recent planetary photographs by Benson, his first solo exhibition, is about to go on show at Flowers Gallery, London.
Wenxin Zhang first got into photography when she was just seven, at a “quite amazing” after-school club that taught her basic camera and darkroom skills. She tells BJP about her vast and varied photography career.
As identified by the UN in the 2013 General Comment on Article 31 – the Convention on the Rights of the Child – a child has a universal human right to play. A new exhibition of photographs, as well as a symposium and photobook, by photographer Mark Neville, aims to generate debate around the complex nature of child’s play, and to advocate for improved provision for this universal right.
A new Amsterdam-based documentary photography agency for visual storytellers from the regions of Africa and Latin America has just launched.
In conjunction with the 1:54 fair of contemporary African art in London, Somerset House is to stage the first major solo show of the Malian photographer, who died this year after a lifetime spent photographing the lives and culture of the Malian capital, Bamako, in the wake of the country’s independence.
How do you photograph space and our lengthy history with it? What does its past and present look like? And how do you encounter it on Earth? These are some of the questions that Matthew Broadhead deals with in his graduation project, Heimr. In 1965 and 1967, NASA and the US Geological Survey organised field trips to Iceland for American astronauts to experience what were perceived to be the most moon-like locations on Earth before they travelled into space.
A recent release brings together over 400 images by the German photographer Peter Lindbergh. Drawn from his work in fashion, culture and urban environments, the book’s release coincides with a major retrospective in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Here BJP investigates a collection curated by Thierry-Maxime Lorio which seeks to posit Lindbergh as the progenitor of a ’different vision on fashion photography’.
“We today can do everything, so long as we do not imitate Europe, so long…
This issue is all about photographing community, featuring work captured over decades, from Peter Mitchell’s Planet…
