Reading Time: 8 minutes Agyepong discusses her most recent series Wish You Were Here — what drove it, what it signifies, and what it means today
Portraiture
Reading Time: 5 minutes This Mental Health Awareness Week, Day discusses Seesaw — an ongoing series created in response to her experiences of OCD during and before the pandemic, and the emotional ups-and-downs experienced by society at large during this time
Reading Time: 8 minutes Chanarin was poised to embark on a photographic survey of Britain for an installation at SFMOMA, however, confined to his apartment, the artist turned his lens on his partner Fiona Jane Burgess instead. Inspired by August Sander’s photograph the Painter’s Wife, Chanarin has made hundreds of portraits of Burgess at home during lockdown
Reading Time: 2 minutes Using webcam and Google Earth, Nicola Cordì’s diptychs show life in lockdown, from the inside, and outside
Reading Time: 5 minutes Endia Beal’s photographs highlight the judgements and prejudices facing young women of colour in the job market
Reading Time: 6 minutes Pixy Liao interviews her favourite artist, Elina Brotherus, about her influences, creativity during lockdown, and the performative elements of their self portraiture
Reading Time: 5 minutes McInnes celebrates the simple act of going to the park, in a time when for some it might be the most significant part of the day
Reading Time: 5 minutes Addy turns the camera on his own life for an ongoing series created during what feels like a never-ending stretch of isolation
Reading Time: 5 minutes If her images appear unsettling, that’s our own hang-ups, says Aneta Bartos, who photographed herself with her ageing father
Reading Time: 10 minutes Growing up in the febrile atmosphere of manliness following Six-Day War, the Israeli photographer never felt he quite fitted in. Until he joined the IDF, embraced his sexuality and went to art college