Reading Time: 4 minutes Each year, British Journal of Photography presents its Ones To Watch – a group of emerging image-makers,…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Each year, British Journal of Photography presents its Ones To Watch – a group of emerging image-makers,…
Reading Time: 10 minutes “I am arguing for sex as both meaningful and meaning-making. It’s an uphill battle but I think the pictures help”
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: 2 minutes Steph Wilson reflects on her relationship to photographing skin and flesh up-close, in all their imperfect gloriousness, during this period of self-isolation — the first in a new series inviting photographers to reflect on subjects central to their work
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dedicated to the creative legacy of Nobuyoshi Araki, the first issue of dada magazine champions mostly-female creatives and their nuanced explorations of sexuality
For this reason, nude photography – historically populated by female subjects, shot by men – has long been pervaded by gratuitousness and exploitation. But as both photography and society continue to open up to women – likewise to members of the LGBTQ community, to non-Westerners, and to people who aren’t white – what becomes of the nude then?
The Nude Collection explores the evolution of the genre as it unfolds in contemporary society, from a vehicle of eroticism to a force for political potency: a means of reclaiming the body as a site of pleasure and possibility.