Reading Time: 5 minutes The subjects of Mirror Portraits contemplate themselves from multiple angles — from within each portrait, and beyond them
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Reading Time: 8 minutes A four-day virtual festival showcases several of Neshat’s award-winning films from 20 to 24 June. To mark the event, we revisit an interview with the Iranian artist discussing her latest body of work Land of Dreams
Reading Time: 6 minutes Lonely walks at “the first light of day” and embroidered diaries of things she “could not express with words” inform the work of Joana Choumali, the first African to win the Prix Pictet award
Reading Time: 9 minutes Opening this week, a timely exhibition at the Barbican explores how masculinity has been coded and performed since the 1960s. We speak to curator Alona Pardo about destabilising and debunking the myths surrounding it.
Reading Time: 7 minutes An Arctic town plunged into darkness for two months of the year, and known as “ground zero for climate change”, provided Mark Mahaney with the impetus for his first personal project.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Adriano Marzi’s long-term documentation of flower production in Ethiopia sheds light on a mostly female workforce subjected to low wages
Reading Time: 5 minutes On his first visit to Kashmir, its beauty blinded Hura. The experience sparked an ongoing project on the region shaped by the snow that engulfs it
Reading Time: 5 minutes Over a quarter of a century since the Rwandan genocide, Jaar’s visual response to the massacre remains as poignant as ever
Reading Time: 10 minutes Visiting seven sites of mass shootings, Andres Gonzalez considers the ways that communities grieve and recover from events that shatter their lives
Reading Time: 4 minutes Day photographed the spectacular performances of Stephen Varble and, in doing so, helped visualise a community “stigmatised for their gender nonconformity and sexual practice”