The international festival set in Dhaka reemerges for its 25th anniversary with a staggering cast of lens-based artists from around the world
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In Beneath the Surface Skin, chemigrams made with Arctic seawater and glacial portraits become letters across loss
How did portraiture shape a vision of pan-African possibility? A new show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art explores the ways images of everyday citizens informed political ideology
Open your phone camera roll. You’re probably carrying hundreds, if not thousands, of photographs in your pocket, moments that fizz with satisfaction, and images that accumulate in piles, never to be considered again.
Images of North African and African migrants to France from Ne M’oublie Pas resist forgetting in a new edition of the show – BJP speaks to curator Jean-Marie Donat
The Chinese-born, Chicago-based artist’s exhibition Resident Aliens at Yancey Richardson examines the personal lives and domestic spaces of immigrants
Working with an archive of photographs made over a century ago, the artist folds the gaze back onto the Eurocentric lens that shaped the images in The Fold
Curator Hiba Abid stresses the importance of rectifying inaccurately archived photographic materials about MENA communities to resist erasure or over simplification
A giant of photography, Martin Parr helped foster a seachange in documentary at Magnum Photos and went on to publish scores of photobooks and win retrospectives at Barbican Art Gallery and Jeu de Paume, Paris. He also championed other image-makers, supporting them through his collection and through his publishing activities and gallery space
Using slow, analogue methods, the photographer reimagines Oxford academics as catalysts for change in a contemplative new portrait series