Industry Insights

Jung, Rothko, Tanning, Duchamp: Inside the mind of Nadav Kander

Known for his portrait and landscape work, Kander has a meditative approach in his London studio – and a profoundly subjective take on making images

12 April 2024

Tokyo drift: In the studio with Johny Pitts

From Sheffield to Peckham via Japan, the artist is tireless in his search for life in all its complexity. His next journey is to the heart of ‘future nostalgia’. We catch up with him at his London studio

25 March 2024

The NPG’s Sabina Jaskot-Gill: ‘We’re a living, working collection’

Ahead of a new show pairing Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron, we get to know the National Portrait Gallery’s senior curator of photographs

20 March 2024

In the studio with Mary McCartney

The photographer’s influences range from Eve Arnold and Pre-Raphaelite painters to her artist mother. She welcomes us to her West London studio, Leica camera in hand

21 February 2024

Curator Tanvi Mishra: ‘Does becoming visible ensure empowerment? I’m not convinced’

The Indian photo expert talks through her career in non-traditional spaces – and reveals how exhibitions can act as ‘portals’ for equity

20 February 2024

Between the stacks: How the Bodleian Libraries are embracing photo custodianship

Richard Ovenden has spearheaded a photography focus at Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, helping ensuring archives find secure homes and rediscovering historic images

14 February 2024

Meet photography’s Queer new wave

Trans and Queer artists are using photography as a means to build community – both in images and in practice

8 February 2024

How artists are fighting Instagram’s nipple censorship

Women’s nipples are censored online while men’s are not, a state of control that has worrying repercussions for artists and marginalised groups

11 January 2024

Code switching: How Fotomuseum Winterthur became digital-first

With the physical space closed for renovation, Fotomuseum Winterthur’s digital curator reveals how ASMR livestreams and ‘sludge content’ are keeping online momentum high

4 December 2023

Light, angles and symmetry: Max Colson on installation photography

Max Colson is obsessed with spaces and how we interact within them. Here the artist and lecturer discusses how this underpins his installation photography

15 November 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.