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Diane Smyth

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

Announcing the 2024 Paris Photo Carte Blanche Student competition winners

BJP reveals the four artists selected to show their work at the Grand Palais in the 2024 Paris Photo Carte Blanche Student competition. Plus the other 16 shortlisted series

16 September 2024
Agenda, Competitions
16 September 2024
Diane Smyth 16 September 2024
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A disquieting feeling pervades Arles’ Discovery Award

“This feeling of disquiet or of encompassing the darkness was very of the moment”

12 July 2024
Agenda, Exhibition
12 July 2024
Diane Smyth 12 July 2024

Nature and identity in the work of Teva Cosic

Born on unceded land in Australia, and growing up in a multi-cultural household, One to Watch Teva Cosic developed a delicate sensitivity to the human and natural factors that make up our environment

15 June 2024
Ones to Watch 2024, Projects
15 June 2024
Diane Smyth 15 June 2024

Overlooked artists to get their dues at Photo London 2024

Curated by Charlotte Jansen, Photo London Fair’s Discovery section is the destination for more experimental and emerging artists

3 May 2024
Agenda, Fair
3 May 2024
Diane Smyth 3 May 2024
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