The British Journal of Photography’s editorial director picks out his top five of 2017 – including Sam Contis’ Deep Springs

The British Journal of Photography’s editorial director picks out his top five of 2017 – including Sam Contis’ Deep Springs
In Money Must Be Made, Lorenzo Vitturi’s latest photobook, the photographs address the question of how, not merely where. It is not exceptional to visit a market in Lagos with a camera, especially if, as white, you are working within a tradition of photography that depicts Africans in despair and as NGO-needy. What distinguishes this work is the complexity suggested, an indication that the market – one of the largest in west Africa – is connected to its people and products in many, many ways.