Creative Brief: Circus magazine’s Jackson Bowley

Sari Soininen’s visual account of an acid-induced psychosis

Mark Power’s chartered waters

Beyond dependency: The battles of Nan Goldin

Bravery and resilience: Portrait of Britain Volume 5 winners

Latest Journal Stories

Creative Brief: Circus magazine’s Jackson Bowley

Now in its second issue, Circus is absurdly large anti-beauty magazine. Here, its founder tells us more about its ethos and production process

30 January 2023

Editor’s picks: stories you might have missed in January

Journey through Sari Soininen’s transformative acid trip, the new Centre for British Photography, and the photo journal keeping Hanoi’s scene alive in some of this month’s most read stories

27 January 2023

Frederic Aranda: “Portraiture fails when it is about the photographer”

“It’s a way for me and my mum to heal our relationship, for us to get closer and for me to get to know her in a different way,” says Aria Shahrokhshahi, of his OpenWalls Arles winning portrait: Mum went and Fell

27 January 2023

Beyond dependency: The battles of Nan Goldin

As nominations pour in for Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Daisy Woodward speaks to the film’s director about shame, bravery, and Goldin’s life in activism

27 January 2023

Ernest Cole’s apartheid record expanded in Amsterdam

A major exhibition at Foam presents newfound material from Cole’s extensive documentation of apartheid in South Africa

26 January 2023

Community and validation: Leica Women Foto awardees on their career-changing wins

The award-winning photographers Rosem Morton, Rania Matar and September Bottoms discuss validation, community and empowering women through photography

25 January 2023

Mark Power’s chartered waters

The Magnum photographer talks to Ravi Ghosh about reissuing The Shipping Forecast, his seminal book navigating the British Isles’ 31 sea areas

25 January 2023

Sari Soininen’s visual account of an acid-induced psychosis

“One day I thought I was God’s chosen one. The next day, I was Satan,” says Sari Soininen. Six years on, the photographer reveals her experience in a book that “sealed the process of healing”

24 January 2023

Come face to face with Hockney, Scorsese and Patti Smith in New York

A new exhibition at the International Center of Photography brings together portraits of famous faces by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie

23 January 2023

Bookshelf

Discover our selection of new releases.

Mark Power’s chartered waters

Sari Soininen’s visual account of an acid-induced psychosis

Ivan Vartanian’s sprawling tome plots the history of Japanese photo magazines

Mark Duffy’s latest photobook plays on the ‘interchangeability of career politicians’

Fire in the hole: The deathly world of Wouter Van de Voorde

Sarah Wilson combines photography and palaeontology to evoke deep ancestral ties

Meghann Riepenhoff’s new book collects cyanotypes made by ice

Bottled Desires: How Sant Khalsa captured the commodification of thirst in the early 2000s

Agenda

Exhibitions, upcoming festivals, print sales.

Creative Brief: Circus magazine’s Jackson Bowley

Editor’s picks: stories you might have missed in January

Frederic Aranda: “Portraiture fails when it is about the photographer”

Beyond dependency: The battles of Nan Goldin

Ernest Cole’s apartheid record expanded in Amsterdam

Community and validation: Leica Women Foto awardees on their career-changing wins

Come face to face with Hockney, Scorsese and Patti Smith in New York

Sasha Huber redresses seven portraits of enslaved individuals made in 1850, in an act of decolonisation and grace

Industry Insights

Where art and commerce in photography meet.

“We have the privilege of starting something new”: Inside the Centre for British Photography

This online journal and publishing house is on a mission to uplift Vietnamese photography

Behind BJP’s covers of 2022

Industry Insights: Shaniqwa Jarvis on empowerment, social change and giving back

Greg Williams: “I never think of myself as photographing celebrities, I photograph artists”

Behind the Cover: Reuben Wu and Alice Zoo on photographing Stonehenge for National Geographic

How to build a career: Alec Soth, Poulomi Basu, Justine Kurland and Jess T Dugan on survival strategies, adapting to change and making a living

Industry Insights: The rise of women skate photographers

Latest Journal stories

Creative Brief: Circus magazine’s Jackson Bowley

Now in its second issue, Circus is absurdly large anti-beauty magazine. Here, its founder tells us more about its ethos and production process

30 January 2023

Editor’s picks: stories you might have missed in January

Journey through Sari Soininen’s transformative acid trip, the new Centre for British Photography, and the photo journal keeping Hanoi’s scene alive in some of this month’s most read stories

27 January 2023

Frederic Aranda: “Portraiture fails when it is about the photographer”

27 January 2023

Bookshelf

Discover our selection of new releases

Creative Brief: Circus magazine’s Jackson Bowley

Editor’s picks: stories you might have missed in January

Frederic Aranda: “Portraiture fails when it is about the photographer”

Beyond dependency: The battles of Nan Goldin

Ernest Cole’s apartheid record expanded in Amsterdam

Community and validation: Leica Women Foto awardees on their career-changing wins

Come face to face with Hockney, Scorsese and Patti Smith in New York

Sasha Huber redresses seven portraits of enslaved individuals made in 1850, in an act of decolonisation and grace

Agenda

Noteworthy exhibitions, upcoming festivals, print sales and more

Mark Power’s chartered waters

Sari Soininen’s visual account of an acid-induced psychosis

Ivan Vartanian’s sprawling tome plots the history of Japanese photo magazines

Mark Duffy’s latest photobook plays on the ‘interchangeability of career politicians’

Fire in the hole: The deathly world of Wouter Van de Voorde

Sarah Wilson combines photography and palaeontology to evoke deep ancestral ties

Meghann Riepenhoff’s new book collects cyanotypes made by ice

Bottled Desires: How Sant Khalsa captured the commodification of thirst in the early 2000s

Industry Insights

Where art and commerce in photography meet.

“We have the privilege of starting something new”: Inside the Centre for British Photography

This online journal and publishing house is on a mission to uplift Vietnamese photography

Behind BJP’s covers of 2022

Industry Insights: Shaniqwa Jarvis on empowerment, social change and giving back

Greg Williams: “I never think of myself as photographing celebrities, I photograph artists”

Behind the Cover: Reuben Wu and Alice Zoo on photographing Stonehenge for National Geographic

How to build a career: Alec Soth, Poulomi Basu, Justine Kurland and Jess T Dugan on survival strategies, adapting to change and making a living

Industry Insights: The rise of women skate photographers

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