Refugees and robots feature in the shortlisted images for this year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, which is organised by the National Portrait Gallery.
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The classic British butterfly house acts as the backdrop to Alexander Mourant’s Aurelian, an evocative study of the passing of time and the slippery nature of memory. “These hot, artificial environments are used through the work to probe the nature of experience, such as an assembly point, or an artist’s studio, as an envisioned idea where time is not absolute but continuously contained and all-encompassing,” says the 23-year-old, who recently graduated from Falmouth University.
Casting from the street and creating near-future looks, South African photographer Kristin Lee Moolman is creating “a new African mythology”, say her fans, which has already featured in an exhibition at Somerset House, and in fashion magazines such as Vogue
The work of Angolan photographer Délio Jasse is colourful and textured, experimenting with analogue photographic…
“The deeper the white man went into Africa, the faster the life flowed out of…
Bamako Encounters, set up primarily to showcase African photography, had to wait a long time…
As a child, Patrick Willocq spent seven years in the Democratic Republic of Congo; with…
In October 1945, as European powers have retreated within themselves, decimated, disfigured and shellshocked by…
“He’s a a typical black gangster,” Sipho Gongxeka says. “Rings, cigarette, dark-skinned, and with a dope-ass suit.” Sipho breaks…