All images © Billy Barraclough. As the UK's largest photography festival kicks off at Somerset…
13 May 2022
The artist scoops the £30,000 prize for her solo exhibition Centropy at Kunsthalle Basel
The role of the nude selfie is shifting. Some artists have explored its potential for self-love, reclaiming it from a historically male gaze. But in an age of social media censorship and the rapid reproduction of images, is it now necessary to draw a line between art and pornography?
As a child, Okabe was shy and introverted. Imbued with pain and beauty, her photography illustrates her internal reality: “Perhaps taking photographs is an unconscious healing for my younger self,” she says
The festival opens this weekend in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, featuring exhibitions by Mary Ellen Mark, Ken Grant, Carmen Winant, Hoda Afshar, Guanyu Xu and more
As a child, Achiampong was disturbed by the golliwog mascot on Robertson’s jam packaging. His ongoing series of collages remind us of this harmful history, and how it permeates contemporary culture
Commissioned by WaterAid and 1854/British Journal of Photography, Chow spent 16 days living on a boat, documenting how the water crisis is affecting communities on Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake
Tim Richmond’s latest photobook is a “love letter” to the people and places of a 20-mile stretch of coast in Southwest England
This year’s winning stories focus on forced migration, colonisation, and the subsequent loss of ancestral values
Portrait by Isabel Muñoz. This article is printed in the latest issue of British Journal…
5 April 2022