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.
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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?…
Seven Americans were shot last week, their deaths creating a seismic effect across the world as videos and images rippled through social media. In London, hundreds of people attended the Black Lives Matter march along Oxford Street, in response to the fatal police shootings of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana. Shane Vincent was there.
When Swedish photographer Alice Schoolcraft visited her relatives in America for the first time she…
London-based street photographer Matt Stuart and 26-year-old Armenian-American Diana Markosian have been named as the…