“What is ugliness? What is perfection? What is the ideal beauty?” These are some of the questions that Marijke Groeneveld addresses in her refreshingly frank portraits.
Initially capturing close friends and family, Woudt’s practice has evolved into an experimental meditation on…
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.
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.
‘Nahrung’ means food in German and ‘aufnahme’ means picture. When brought together, they form the word ‘nahrungsaufnahme’ which roughly translates as food intake – an apt title for Korean photographer Kyung Nyu Hyun’s latest project.
When Alnis Stakle first took up photography, he was faced with a rigid conception of the medium. In Latvia in the 1990s it was largely considered a commercial craft, he says, with any more artistic ambitions restricted to banal nudes and sunsets. But for Stakle photography is “a kind of religion”, which has the power to change our relationship to the world.
Shaman-like healers who practice traditional medicine and worship the ancestors are influential figures in the…
French photographer Mathias Depardon first visited Baku in 2012, shooting human rights issues at the…
This year marks the 11th edition of British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award. It…
Dutch photographer Nick van Tiem got into astronomy when looking at the night sky with…