“Taking someone’s portrait is always a disruptive and often very awkward event. Everyone has their default portrait pose. The role of the photographer is to push beyond, to find that mysterious intimate moment that only a camera can freeze.”
Awards
“There is massive support from the community in general,” says Lila Paprocka, the curator behind the LIPF. “We want to show a different community and people together. It’s about sharing the love for photography.”
Questions of truth and fiction, doubt and certainty, and the relationship between the observer and the observed are the key themes of the £30,000 prize – which rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, for a body of work felt to have significantly contributed to photography
The shortlisted images for “the global award in photography and sustainability” go on show at the V&A this month, including work by Thomas Ruff, Rinko Kawauchi and many more
“The White Man’s Hole is a work about the town of Coober Pedy, in the…
It’s the scandal of the season – a young Anglo-Indian photographer Souvid Datta has been…
Awards: Daragh Soden wins the Grand Prix at Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography
“Dublin is the city I grew up in, I wanted to make work about me…
We’re offering students and recent graduates an opportunity to showcase their work and launch their careers.…
How to secure a country investigates the abstract concepts of border and security in one…
“Salvatore Vitale’s extraordinary project How to secure a country is a forensic examination of national…