“I believe Turkey is photographed deficiently,” says Çağdaş Erdoğan. “The photographs we see of Turkey are propaganda for the nationalist movement, or they’re Orientalist images for the outer world since these are what they want to see.”Erdoğan, 24, is a Kurdish Turk born in a small town in the east of the country who has established himself as one of the leading young photojournalists in a newly authoritarian and conservative Turkey
David Campany’s celebrated exhibition, A Handful of Dust, traces the 20th century history of photography through this seemingly humble substance; as the show finally comes to London, we revisit the article on it he wrote for BJP back in 2015
In 2003, the British photographer Robbie Cooper was employed to photograph the CEO of a…
So you’ve thought long and hard about whether the time is right to make a…
Nick Thornton Jones and Warren Du Preez, the London-based experimental photographers, call their work “the…
To mark the launch of the Bob Books Photobook Award, a new competition from Bob…
A 13-day coma, four brain haemorrhages, a fractured cheekbone, a broken collarbone, a broken humerus,…
Examining the cultural, religious, and ceremonial practices passed down through generations of African descendants in Cuba, Lo Calzo highlights the variety of identities within the country, and the ways in which they complement one another. Cohabiting “within a personal culture of exchange”, he says, they “borrow each other’s visions, customs and narratives”. He points to the “precarious balancing act” between the familiar Cuba, largely defined by the communist revolution and the society born out of it, and the diverse communities that actually make up the country.
When Owen Harvey arrived in New York last August, armed with his Bronica SQ-A, he…
“At Yale University, I found myself in a place of ‘double consciousness’,” recalls Endia Beal,…
