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
Reading Time: 6 minutes In his latest project and soon-to-be book, George Georgiou finds anonymity and intimacy along the roadside of American parades