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Organ Zida 2016 launches in Zagreb

The eighth Organ Vida International Photography Festival, the largest festival of contemporary photography in southeastern Europe, opens today in the Croatian capital, Zagreb.

13 September 2016

Images of the Feminist avant-garde in the 1970s shine a light on an artistic movement too long overlooked

October sees the launch of Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, a 12-week exhibition at The Photographer’s Gallery in Central London. BJP sat down with curators Gabriele Schor and Anna Dannemann to discuss a collection that celebrates seeks to challenge ‘accepted social conventions, including the mechanisms and male dominance of the art industry.’

12 September 2016

Guido Harari’s portraits of Kate Bush document their ten-year collaboration

An upcoming exhibition at Project Space, Bermondsey showcases the images of Guido Harari over a ten year period as Kate Bush’s official photographer. The collection, which is taken from Harari’s book The Kate Inside, includes Polaroids, contact sheets, personal notes and out-takes from studio shoots alongside observations and reminiscences by the photographer. It’s foreword is written by Bush’s creative collaborator and artistic mentor, Lindsay Kemp, who is responsible for the initial introduction between Bush & Harari. BJP sat down with the Italian photographer to discuss a collection which sought to detail the personality of this complex icon.

29 July 2016

Undressing the Refugee Crisis with Sara Furlanetto

Let Me Tell You Who I Am, a new photography series documenting the movement of refugees across Europe, started in the spring of 2015, it is the result of almost a year of research across the continent, revealing, in a collection of portraits, the people behind the greatest movement of humanity since the Second World War.

29 July 2016

Ai Weiwei's Journey as a Refugee Through Europe

As a political refugee who lived under constant government surveillance, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei feels related to the growing influx of refugees attempting to enter the EU. He explores the experience of the migrant in a new exhibition at Foam, Amsterdam.

20 July 2016

Edward Weston: The body and the Line

A new exhibition compares photographs by the portraitist Edward Weston with drawings by some of the greatest exponents of American Minimalism, taken from the Philip and Rosella Rolla collection in Italy.

22 June 2016