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Politics & Power
An unexpected call launched JR into his latest project, set in a Californian maximum-security prison
Reading Time: 3 minutes Working with inmates and guards, the French photographer’s gargantuan mural made in Tehachapi prison is the centrepiece of his first UK retrospective, opening at the Saatchi next month
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Land of Holes exposes environmental exploitation and injustice quietly ravaging an the community of Brescia.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes An encyclopedia entry led Cemre Yeşil Gönenli to a series of photographs of prisoners, commissioned by the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Her latest book appropriates these images, questioning the power of authority
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bourouissa is the winner of this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize. Here, we revisit an interview about his retrospective, which presented 15 years of documenting life on the margins
Reading Time: 7 minutes Guided by the surrealist writings of Aimé Césaire, Halpern attempts to create a visual ode to the Caribbean archipelago, compelled by the dissonance between its natural beauty and terrible history, and struggling with his position as a white outsider
Reading Time: 2 minutes Blending portraits with defunct bolívar banknotes, Felipe Jácome captures the exhaustion of Venezuelan migrants and the broken country from which they flee
Reading Time: 4 minutes Harriman is one of the most widely-shared photographers of the Black Lives Matter movement. Here, he shares his story, and discusses one of his favourite images
Reading Time: 9 minutes As protests against police brutality continue to gain momentum, Chris Boot and Thomas Dworzak look back at the Georgian revolution, when the president fired the country’s corrupt police force