Reading Time: 4 minutes Through the work of Jess T Dugan, Paul Guilmoth and Deanna Dikeman, the precariousness of life is unpacked

Reading Time: 4 minutes Through the work of Jess T Dugan, Paul Guilmoth and Deanna Dikeman, the precariousness of life is unpacked
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a child, Okabe was shy and introverted. Imbued with pain and beauty, her photography illustrates her internal reality: “Perhaps taking photographs is an unconscious healing for my younger self,” she says
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Italian photographer travelled to the village of Cotignola in 2018, seeking inspiration and a new beginning.
Reading Time: 7 minutes From Rhiannon Adam’s latest photobook to Susan Meiselas’ historic series Carnival Strippers revisited, we round up the recently-released publications not to miss
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Singh’s first major survey, on show in Berlin, the movement and physicality of the photographer’s creative process manifests in her free-flowing images and the many forms she employs to create and show them
Reading Time: 3 minutes “You just have to keep moving forward. There’s always going to be danger out there, but you need to keep going, what else are you going to do?”
Reading Time: 3 minutes The photographer’s practise uses gesture and performance to harness the power of anger
Reading Time: 2 minutes Inspired by their personal relationship that blossomed in the Covid-19 lockdown, the pair decided to find other couples with similar experiences
Perhaps one of the most human emotions, love permeates so much of what we do. It has inspired and consumed artists for centuries. It has inspired movements, acts of compassion, empathy and change. It is a force like no other.
Some of the greatest love stories in contemporary photography have been cherry-picked by curator Simon Baker for an exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. In Love Songs, as it is titled, we are invited to reflect on Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986), Nobuyoshi Araki’s photographs of his lifelong love and muse Yoko, Lin Zhipeng’s playful portraits of his lovers, and Rene Groebli’s hazy honeymoon and more.
In this collection, you will find a more comprehensive review of the show, along with a celebration of love through the lenses of contemporary photographers making sense of it in their work. From Karla Hiraldo Voleau’s heartbreak, to Jess T. Dugan’s delicate portraits of couples reflecting on life’s ebbs and flows, to Ana Vallejo’s addiction to love, this potent subject is explored in its myriad manifestations.