The world’s biggest photography festival, Arles largely avoids urgent politics, but includes many interesting exhibitions around images and how we use them
Festival
From themes of mythologised memories and ancestral resistance to decolonial archives, this year’s edition of the world’s biggest photography festival centres global narratives
The third edition of the festival in Doha, Qatar is anchored by As I Lay Between Two Seas, which depicts identity as a fluid process
Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby
BJP explores The Tree of Life: A Love Letter to Nature, the festival’s ninth edition in Milan
A rich family history of political struggle and personal responsibility, diverging paths and roads left untrod inform Thero Makepe’s We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here
BJP heads to Jimei in China to find a festival bringing forward a vast programme dissecting immigration, family histories and new technology
Back in the Grand Palais, Paris Photo 2024 was a spectacular return to form in and around the main fair
The festival sweeps the southwest of England this October, in community photo initiatives and global stories – from Mali to Eastern Europe
Contributing artists Mounir Raji, Tina Farifteh and Rosângela Rennó discuss their projects with BJP as responses to questions around home, migration & diaspora, and colonialism.