As nominations pour in for Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Daisy Woodward speaks to the film’s director about shame, bravery, and Goldin’s life in activism
Film
Ghost Dance, a collaboration with filmmaker CJ Clarke, premiers as part of this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
For The Sake of Calmness takes Newsha Tavakolian’s experience of Premenstrual Syndrome as its starting point, developing into an abstract and experimental response to the syndrome that should resonate with every viewer
After falling out of love with photography, Okahara found himself haunted by memories of Koza, an old center of Okinawa city, on the southern islands of Japan
KesselsKramer’s latest project, produced in just two weeks, stars Oscar-nominated screenwriter Efthimis Filippou, 62 international artists, and what has become a symbol of the collective crisis we find ourselves in: the window
Shot over four years, Nelson’s new documentary hones in on a single street in Hackney, where 150-year-old eateries meet hipster coffee joints and £2m penthouse flats
Nick Ballón’s four-minute film blends fact and fiction as he follows a group of alphorn players through a mountain range in Germany
Farah Al Qasimi’s latest exhibition presents her first feature-length film about a supernatural jinn that stars in a reality TV show, alongside photographs pulled from the world she imagines
A film commissioned by British Journal of Photography takes a look behind the scenes of its Meet California commission
“I see the bastard countryside everywhere I go,” says Robin Friend, pointing out of the window of his studio in East London, where an ivy plant has climbed up a nearby wall and is wrapping its vines around a rusting CCTV camera. “I ran with this idea of city and countryside splattering into each other, creating this hybrid nature,” explains Friend, who has been producing photographs for his book, unknowingly at first, for 15 years since he started started his BA in Brighton, where he studied under Jem Southam.
“Bastard countryside” is a phrase coined by Victor Hugo in his novel Les Miserables, in which he describes the city of Paris as an “amphibian”, stretching out into the countryside and devouring everything in its path. It is a zone in which the urban and rural mix, the manmade and the natural, clashing and colliding to create a strange form of beauty and ugliness.