BJP is saddened to hear that photographer and visual artist Nona Faustine has passed away. In celebration of her life and work, we are republishing our interview on White Shoes, her alternative history of the USA and its slave trade
Tag: activism
The new show sees the filmmaker curate decades of protest and activism throughout British history
A rich family history of political struggle and personal responsibility, diverging paths and roads left untrod inform Thero Makepe’s We Didn’t Choose to be Born Here
The show at the Whitechapel Gallery pays homage to the artist’s notable role in art-ivism, spotlighting his heavy use of archival photography and manipulating mass-produced images
Ana Norman Bermúdez incorporates Hmong embroidery into her portraits of the women, a collaboration championed by asylum NGOs
The Iranian artist discusses the multifaceted violence – and resistance – in The Fury, a set of powerful nude portraits and dance-inspired film
Photography’s rules are made to be broken. Having become frustrated with the medium’s conventions, five artists discuss how sculpture, 3-D maquettes, activism and X-rays keep photography alive in their work. Next up is Sofia Karim
A Village on the Highway focuses not on the agricultural workers whose activism overturned the ‘black laws’, but the makeshift camps which allowed them to do it
Chekachkov is working in Lviv as a fixer, helping the international press document the crisis. As the war between Ukraine and Russia prevails, the photographer reflects on the shifting state of identity
Speaking from Lviv, Neville shares his experience of the war in recent days and the reasons for making his latest book, Stop Tanks with Books, about the lives of Ukrainian people