Industry Insights

Get to know the Arab Image Foundation

Set up in Beirut in 1997, the AIF has become a key institution in the region – and has now expanded in a larger public-facing home

24 May 2024

Lishui: the ‘small’ Chinese city with big photo ambitions

Investment in a vast new photography centre illustrates the scope of the city’s cultural reach, adding to China’s stature as a global photo destination

2 May 2024

André Josselin on the power of picdrop for commercial photographers

Europe’s most popular professional photo sharing software eases the collaboration between artist and brand

23 April 2024

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

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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.