The dichotomy between documenting and experiencing an event is a predicament faced by even the…
Interviews
A new original documentary miniseries, Conflict, explores how some of the world’s most renowned conflict photographers handle the extreme pressures of bringing war into our living rooms.
A French anthropologist, Marc Augé, attempted to define modernity through the concept of “non-places”. Natalia…
The 21-year-old Italian-Danish photographer from Palermo, South Italy, takes captivating portraits of his friends at play, sparking a viral following in his work.
Samuel Burgess-Johnson is a London-based art director and designer, who has worked with a range…
Erica Snyder’s wide collection of photography illustrates the duality of living in the outskirts of a city.
Crofton Black and Edmund Clark’s Negative Publicity, a study of the global “extraordinary renditions” programme led by the United States as part of the War on Terror, has won the Rencontres d’Arles 2016 Photo-Text Book Award.
Manon Wertenbroek, a Swiss-Dutch artist, takes inspiration from modern expressionist and contemporary paintings in her…
“I’ve spent a lifetime tidying up the world”, Brian Griffin tells us when we meet…
Stuart Hall first visited the Tar Sands in Fort McMurray, Canada in 2011 and tries to return almost every year since to capture what he terms the Giga-project – the largest industrial project in human history. The process of extracting the bitumen is, according to environmentalists, the world’s most damaging activity. The scale is so enormous that the wound can be seen from space. The oil embedded in the sand lies under 140,000 km2 of forests, equivalent to the size of England. Hall tells BJP how the series was created, and his own pathway into photography.