Ahead of a major upcoming exhibition at UCCA Beijing, curator Holly Roussell ruminates on the…
28 March 2023
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Holly-Marie Cato decided she wanted to be a photographer after being caught up in the 2011 London riots. Now she’s a Leica ambassador, curating Black History Month events and working with Catherine Garcia and Emily Garthwaite to redefine the brand
As part of Leica Gallery’s Black History Month celebrations, the photographer presents her first solo exhibition, alongside a programme of talks, workshops and grants for young Black photographers
Consumerism and imperialism have long been explored and visualised in photography. Indeed, images themselves are a commodity that perpetuate the cycle. But with the dawn of the internet and new technologies, the heightened awareness of the climate crisis, intersectional thought and need for decolonisation, photography’s relationship to capitalism is being reexamined.
Far removed from the patriotic flag-waving that lays claim to the country, rene matić’s love letter to their Black, Brown and queer community offers an alternative vision of britishness. defiant and sincere, its very existence makes it an incidental voice of protest
The annual celebration attracts over two million people from a diverse, international background. In its absence, a new show presents its festivities through a markedly Black British lens
“It felt like a poignant opportunity to reflect on the contribution that Black people continue to make to British culture”
Focusing on human struggle in the battle to defeat Isis, Ivor Prickett spent months on the frontline in Iraq and Syria, documenting the end of the caliphate, and
the daunting return home
for thousands
of displaced citizens
Four years ago, British Journal of Photography dedicated an issue to photography education, in response…
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili (Morocco), Paul Botes (South Africa), Anna Boyiazis (USA), Tommaso Fiscaletti & Nic Grobler (South Africa), and Phumzile Khanyile (South Africa) are the five winners of the seventh CAP Prize. Open to photographers of any age or background, the CAP Prize is awarded to work that engages with the African continent or its diaspora.
Born in 1984 in Khouribga, Morocco, Yassine Alaoui Ismaili – aka Yoriyas – lives in Casablanca and has been awarded his prize for the series Casablanca Not the Movie (2014–2018). “It is both a love letter to the city I call home and an effort to nuance the visual record for those whose exposure to Morocco’s famous city is limited to guide book snapshots, film depictions or Orientalist fantasies,” he says.
