Reading Time: 4 minutes Near Salvador, the capital of Bahia state, an island community of Afro-Brazilians are living life in toxic waters

Reading Time: 4 minutes Near Salvador, the capital of Bahia state, an island community of Afro-Brazilians are living life in toxic waters
Reading Time: 2 minutes In her new book, titled White Shoes, Faustine photographs herself at New York locations tied to the history of the slave trade, including former African burial grounds
Reading Time: 5 minutes The American photographer’s new book, The Forgotten, trials a complex hierarchy of power between the sheltered, the remembered, and the forgotten
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Art in itself doesn’t change anything. But when it’s aligned to a political movement, it becomes its visual arm.”
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake, at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Missouri, until 16 January 2022, is the artist’s first career-spanning retrospective in over a decade
Reading Time: 6 minutes The photographer’s new book, Sin Salida, candidly portrays the devastating reality of Salvadorans who lead lives of fear and daily intimidation
Reading Time: 4 minutes The work condemns the abusive kafala system in Lebanon, where women from Sierra Leone are recruited through a human trafficking network
Reading Time: 2 minutes Featuring Black Panthers, Fidel Castro, and feminist protest, a new monograph compiles her images of the radical
Reading Time: 3 minutes In A Gadda Da England freely mixes time and place, finding connections between events and protests through the years
Photography has always been closely connected to the act of protest and activism. The subjective lens can both aid a cause, and work against it when it comes to photographs of protest. Indeed, some of the most famous photographs in the world are images that have sparked movements, political policies or shifted public opinion so much so, that it has altered the course of history. When Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk burned himself to death in Saigon in 1963 to protest the persecution of monks, the moment was captured by Malcolm Browne. The devastating act led to urgent negotiations surrounding the Buddhists’ plight with pressure from the White House. The image remains one of the most harrowing and poignant in photographic history.
In this Collection, we look back at the archive of protest photography, as well as contemporary events. Photographers and collectives are creating new archives – not as neutral photojournalism, but documenting with political motivation.