Uma Bista, nominated by artist and curator Rebecca Simons, turns her lens on the difficulties women face due to inequality in Nepal
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Each year, British Journal of Photography presents its Ones To Watch – a selection of…
Throughout May, BJP-online will be re-publishing a series of articles profiling the 19 emerging image-makers British Journal of Photography is tipping for 2019. Selected from 750 nominations, the 2019 Ones to Watch provide a window into where photography is heading
Ai Wei-Wei, Agnès Varda, and Tyler the Creator are a few of the big-name cat-lovers who have graced the covers of Puss Puss magazine. Its founder and editor-in-chief discusses her approach
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On the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, Jonathan Torgovnik revisits the mothers, sons and daughters he’d photographed more than a decade earlier – the women victims of rape used as a weapon of war, and the children born as a consequence
From the vast Xinjiang region of China, Patrick Wack presents a contradictory country as it expands its Silk Road heritage
George Georgiou, Jonathan Torgovnik, Nadine Stijns and Cansu Yildiran all feature in our community issue, which focuses on the ideas and strategies behind four contrasting approaches employed by outsiders looking in
In 2016, a chance meeting with a young Iranian couple led Youness Miloudi to make his first visit to Tehran. The encounter had, evidently, made a big impression. “To be honest, I didn’t know much about the country, especially about the daily life of Iranians,” he says.
A French photographer based in Paris, Miloudi found the trip a huge learning experience. “This first visit was enough to make me realise how much I did not know this culture, and that I had, like many people, prejudices about Iran.”
With the aim of challenging his own preconceptions, and of coming closer to understanding the country, he embarked on several more trips throughout 2017 and 2018, documenting the people and places he visited. PerseFornia is one part of the resulting project, The Iranians, and consists of documentary portraits of the youth of Tehran.
Spanning a 30-year career, Schorr’s work explores identity politics and photography’s fetishistic gaze. Best-known for her early portraits of adolescent boys, and her fashion and editorial work for magazines, her 2014 show, 8 Women, highlighted a shift in focus.
What draws me to photographing adolescent youth? The sense of things being unresolved. I succeeded in nothing as a child. I waited for high school to be over so I could go to New York. I knew things wouldn’t come easy. But I knew they could come if I worked for them.