Magnum Photos today announces the official launch of its new website for independent storytelling. Out of its beta pilot, the platform brings the history agency’s photography community to an online, global audience, through an editorial programme of new and archival stories.
For more than a decade, Benson has used raw image data from robotic interplanetary missions to create large-format landscape photographs of the planets, their moons and the Sun. An exhibition of new and recent planetary photographs by Benson, his first solo exhibition, is about to go on show at Flowers Gallery, London.
As identified by the UN in the 2013 General Comment on Article 31 – the Convention on the Rights of the Child – a child has a universal human right to play. A new exhibition of photographs, as well as a symposium and photobook, by photographer Mark Neville, aims to generate debate around the complex nature of child’s play, and to advocate for improved provision for this universal right.
A new Amsterdam-based documentary photography agency for visual storytellers from the regions of Africa and Latin America has just launched.
In conjunction with the 1:54 fair of contemporary African art in London, Somerset House is to stage the first major solo show of the Malian photographer, who died this year after a lifetime spent photographing the lives and culture of the Malian capital, Bamako, in the wake of the country’s independence.
Danny Lyon once said: “The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.” A wide-ranging retrospective of the renowned American documentary photographer is about go on show at Beetles + Huxley, London.
The state-funded program which has the most impact on the development of contemporary art in Colombia presents its 44th edition in the city of Pereira located in the coffee-producing area of Colombia.
The Contemporary Art Society acquires works by John Akomfrah and Kader Attia at Frieze London. The works address themes of colonisation and migration, and will be donated to Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art – the area of the UK with the highest number of asylum seekers.
This year marks 20 years since the start of the Maoist rebellion in Nepal. This war and its aftermath have left deep scars on many Nepali lives, and still affect the country at large. Last year, Nepal was hit by several horrific earthquakes, which killed over 8,000 people and left over 800,000 families homeless. A new festival in the country’s capital is exploring such devastation through photography.
Czech photographer Stanislav Bříza’s self publishing platform BFLMPSVZ publishes a chronicle of a joint road trip through America, and through the dark recesses of a relationship “that goes beyond the confines of the road.”
