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Diane Smyth

Wolfgang Tillmans uses photography and installation to consider knowledge and its circulation

With a huge exhibition in the Pompidou Centre’s vacated Public Information Library, the artist also asks how we might consider the present to see into the future 

30 May 2025
Agenda, Archives, Exhibition, Humanity & Technology
2 weeks ago
Diane Smyth 30 May 2025

Sebastião Salgado in his own words

Celebrated photographer Sebastião Salgado has died after more than 50 years of committed documentary work; here BJP draws on past interviews to give an insight into his approach

24 May 2025
Documentary, Environment, Obituary
3 weeks ago
Diane Smyth 24 May 2025

Celebrating the messy richness of London life

London Lives gathers work by over 30 artists to celebrate and emulate the messy richness of one of the most multicultural cities on earth, during the Photo London fair. Curator Francis Hodgson explains more

13 May 2025
Exhibition, Fair, Fairs, Interview, Interviews
1 month ago
Diane Smyth 13 May 2025

Rene Matić is nominated for the Turner Prize

Set up in 1984, the Turner Prize has been awarded to a photographer only once – but Rene Matić has won a nomination aged just 27, for a solo show featuring stacked images, installations, and sound art

24 April 2025
Art & Activism, Competitions, Exhibition, News
2 months ago
Diane Smyth 24 April 2025

Watching the Watchers at FORMAT Festival

Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby

21 March 2025
Activism & Protest, Agenda, Art & Activism, Documentary, Exhibition, Festival, Festivals, History, Latin America, Projects, War & Conflict, Youth Culture
21 March 2025
Diane Smyth 21 March 2025

Automatic Art – Alan Adler’s life in photobooths

Running 16 photobooths for more than 50 years, Alan Adler created an archive of self-portraits that test the boundaries of identity and creativity

21 February 2025
BJP, BJP Magazine, Interview, Photobook
21 February 2025
Diane Smyth 21 February 2025

Welcome to the Pleasuredome

Creative duo and club stalwarts Martin Green and James Lawler take a utopian yet realistic look at 90s Queer nights in Britain, at Open Eye Gallery

14 February 2025
Agenda, Community, Environment, Projects, Tradition & Identity
14 February 2025
Diane Smyth 14 February 2025

Thero Makepe navigates political struggles and family history across Botswana and South Africa

A rich family history of political struggle and personal responsibility, diverging paths and roads left untrod inform Thero Makepe’s We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here

14 February 2025
Awards, Community, Decolonisation, Exhibition, Festival, Projects, Tradition & Identity
14 February 2025
Diane Smyth 14 February 2025

Indian Photo Festival offers a diverse mix of image-makers, subjects, and styles

Held in Hyderabad since 2015, Indian Photo Festival is the country’s longest-running international photography festival, including images from around the world as well as work by Indian image-makers old and new

27 November 2024
1854 Commissions, Archives, Festivals, Projects
27 November 2024
Diane Smyth 27 November 2024

Meeting of Minds: Jaou Tunis is creating a gathering point for artists

Jaou Tunis is creating a gathering point for artists from Tunisia, the SWANA region, and its diaspora, reflects Taous Dahmani, who curated two shows at this edition – Unstable Point and Assembly

30 October 2024
Agenda, Exhibition, Festivals, Interview
30 October 2024
Diane Smyth 30 October 2024
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