Reading Time: 5 minutes Vietnamese-born, London-based Thu Nguyen is one of the most respected agents in the business. Here, she reflects on the industry’s ongoing attempts to represent a broader spectrum of people
Reading Time: 2 minutes The first major exhibition of the new-wave Chinese artist opens in Manhattan’s recently opened photography museum tomorrow
Reading Time: 5 minutes Graeme Bulcraig, founder of Touch Digital, on how a new wave of photographers, ones adept and versatile across multiples styles and media, are now leading the way in commercial photography
An unexpected call launched JR into his latest project, set in a Californian maximum-security prison
Reading Time: 3 minutes Working with inmates and guards, the French photographer’s gargantuan mural made in Tehachapi prison is the centrepiece of his first UK retrospective, opening at the Saatchi next month
Reading Time: 5 minutes “I realised that, through photography, I could express myself as loudly as I wanted without feeling uncomfortable or feeling my ideas weren’t strong enough. That’s what photography gave me”
Reading Time: 6 minutes Lonely walks at “the first light of day” and embroidered diaries of things she “could not express with words” inform the work of Joana Choumali, the first African to win the Prix Pictet award
Reading Time: 10 minutes Growing up in the febrile atmosphere of manliness following Six-Day War, the Israeli photographer never felt he quite fitted in. Until he joined the IDF, embraced his sexuality and went to art college
Reading Time: 7 minutes When a Mexican curator invited Pieter Hugo over to make new work, “His only brief to me,” says the photographer, “was that it be about sex and mortality”. So began a two-year inquiry into the country’s complex relationship with life, death and the afterlife
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new exhibition platform offers an education in the history of the black female gaze with unseen images from Mali’s forgotten studio photographers
Reading Time: 6 minutes A violent attack in Spain galvanised Laia Abril to begin the next episode in her project highlighting stigmatised issues