Reading Time: 4 minutes Kate Friend invites creatives and public figures to pick a single flower or plant for her to photograph. Here, she reveals the process behind five of her portraits
Picture gallery
Reading Time: 4 minutes This year’s winning stories focus on forced migration, colonisation, and the subsequent loss of ancestral values
Reading Time: 3 minutes Travelling through nine countries, Wilton exposes scars on the environment, and the consequences for those who live near mines and coal plants
Reading Time: 3 minutes Children are placed in bootcamp settings, and trained in skills such as survival, self-defense, and shooting. Here, Kepesz introduces us to life on campus
Reading Time: < 1 minute Opening next weekend, the show features work by 15 photojournalists including Gabriela Bhaskar, Nina Berman, Victor J. Blue, Balazs Gardi, Adam Gray, Shuran Huang, Christopher Lee, and others
Erik van Cuyk’s diptychs of young skaters and BMXers express the strength and individuality of youth
Reading Time: 4 minutes Presenting each participant’s portrait alongside images of their favourite place, van Cuyk documents over 100 young people, as they carve out spaces for expression within the built environment
Reading Time: 2 minutes Presented alongside personal experiences of lockdown, Charlotte Ellis’ joyful portraits remind us of the camaraderie and patience that brightened the early months of the pandemic
Reading Time: 5 minutes In a country where identifying as LGBTQ+ can threaten your existence, the openness with which Ponomarev’s participants share their stories carves a path for others to do the same
Reading Time: 8 minutes What is it like to date a stripper? Over six years, Buck photographed and interviewed 40 couples across North America. Here, he shares some of their stories
Reading Time: 4 minutes