Jack Pidduck recalls a particular holiday with his parents, driving along a mountain road in…
Documentary
This issue of BJP focuses on the European migrant crisis which, over the last couple…
Crofton Black and Edmund Clark’s Negative Publicity, a study of the global “extraordinary renditions” programme led by the United States as part of the War on Terror, has won the Rencontres d’Arles 2016 Photo-Text Book Award.
The Japanese phrase ‘wabi-sabi’ can be translated to “the simple appreciation of blemish-moments.” Chance encounters, fleeting moments, light leaks and smudges – Sarah White’s work was inspired by this concept before she had even heard of it.
Let Me Tell You Who I Am, a new photography series documenting the movement of refugees across Europe, started in the spring of 2015, it is the result of almost a year of research across the continent, revealing, in a collection of portraits, the people behind the greatest movement of humanity since the Second World War.
What happens when the landscape of your childhood starts to disappear? American photographer Alexandra Hootnick…
Sixteen years ago, Sebastião Salgado published Exodus. The Brazilian photographer spent six years, and visited more than 35 countries, to document the fraught, desperate and forced mass movement of humans around the globe. He photographed the roads they walked, the impermanent camps they built, the overcrowded city slums where they ended up. As the iconic photobook is republished, we see different people, of a different generation, telling the same story. By looking again at Salgado’s Exodus, we cannot help but reflect on the unchanging plight of those trying to seek a new home.
As a political refugee who lived under constant government surveillance, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei feels related to the growing influx of refugees attempting to enter the EU. He explores the experience of the migrant in a new exhibition at Foam, Amsterdam.
SAM IVIN What does it mean to be an asylum seeker in the UK? The…
What’s the genesis of this project? Why were you compelled to see this project through?…