Industry Insights

Granta’s photo editor on finding image-text harmony

Where does photography fit into a legacy literary magazine? Max Ferguson talks poets, projects, and the amateur aesthetic

27 July 2023

Fair exchange: should socially engaged photographers pay their participants?

Many socially engaged practices rely on collaborations with marginalised communities – but if a photographer receives funding, should their participants also be paid?

26 May 2023

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

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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.