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Keeping alive Turkey’s history of enforced disappearances

Zilan Imşik creates shimmering images around four Turkish cities to memorialise Kurdish disappearances in the 1980s and 90s

28 February 2023

Meet the photographer rejecting the limitations of the Welsh landscape

Victoria Maidstone’s graduate project traces both the river Severn, and her own complex relationship with nature, to their source

13 February 2023

An intimate and honest portrayal of unexpected pregnancy

Jade Carr-Daley was two weeks into her photography course when she found out she was pregnant. Her ongoing project documents her transition from student to caregiver

10 February 2023

Finding inner peace: photographing the unseen side of Cystic Fibrosis

Cíara Hillyer has spent her life in and out of hospitals. For her, they are a space of comfort and peace, where she can be vulnerable – feelings she captures in her delicate project, Breathing Space.

9 February 2023

Petty crimes: How fake detective stories morph into a photo series

Inspired by her childhood imagining wild detective stories, Laura Chen has constructed a new world of justice, lying somewhere between fact and fiction

8 February 2023

The artist undoing generations of filial pressure through collage

The death of Fion Hung’s grandmother prompted the photographer to reexamine a strained family dynamic informed by mediaeval folk tales

8 February 2023

Family ties: Capturing the experience of supporting loved ones through alcohol addiction

Laura Foster’s collaboration with a florist friend is based on an unexpected and long-hidden bond: that they have grown up supporting mothers living with substance abuse

7 February 2023

Scratching the surface of the West’s ‘Chinese’ Pagodas

Pagodas adorn parks and botanical gardens across the West, but their heritage tells a story of aristocracy and Oriental colonialism, as Yuxing Chen discovered after swapping Shanghai for London

7 February 2023

“We have the privilege of starting something new”: Inside the Centre for British Photography

Hoping to reignite appreciation for a ‘neglected’ UK photo scene, James Hyman will open the Centre for British Photography at the end of this month. How will the new institution serve the community?

19 January 2023

This online journal and publishing house is on a mission to uplift Vietnamese photography

Despite the challenges of scarce resources and strict censorship laws, the two-person team behind Matca – an online journal, community space and publishing imprint in Hanoi – are determined to strengthen their local scene

11 January 2023

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Take a deep dive into the intersections of art and commerce

From leading editorial photographers on the concept behind their latest cover shoot to global curators sharing their approach to collecting, major industry figures take us behind the curtain of their professional practices.

Highlights include David Brandon Geeting on commercial still life photography, Quil Lemons on shooting Billie Eilish for Vanity Fair, Azu Nwagbogu on resisting the authority of the archive and Alessia Glaviano on running a festival amid a global pandemic.