The photographer is at play with the boundaries that confine both their lens-based practice and the socio-political context of their subjects, finds Matilde Manicardi
Identity Politics
Visions of homelands and lives between cultures from the winners of the Creator Labs Photo Fund 2024
Google and Aperture’s annual prize shines a light on emerging photographers from across the US
For its latest issue, La Bohemia, the magazine’s team wanted to “conceive bohemia as something we must safeguard and preserve” amid a global polycrisis
Based in Tokyo, Chinese photographer Wang Lu employs a chameleon-like approach to the medium, exploring subjects ranging from personal history to migration and cultural identity
Born and raised in Paris by immigrant parents, French-Algerian photographer Maya-Inès Touam describes her work as being “between the two shores of the Mediterranean”
As a child, Okabe was shy and introverted. Imbued with pain and beauty, her photography illustrates her internal reality: “Perhaps taking photographs is an unconscious healing for my younger self,” she says
The artist’s hybrid images blend photography, text and collage, describing the turbulence of being young, Black and queer in America
Young’s latest project attempts to illustrate the pain of homophobia, and the anxiety of existing in a society where fundamental human rights are in constant jeopardy