In the pages of The Secrets of Sexual Fulfilment, Mahvash – a popular figure among the working class of 1950s Tehran – presented playfully risqué images of herself alongside the fictionalised story of her life.
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Abdulhamid Kircher and Diana Markosian explore their latest photo books in an in-depth conversation with Aperture and BJP
Today, Tomorrow is playful, collaborative approach to the “precious” photo album which the Chinese-American photographer rebuilt to heal her ruptured roots
Born in Togo, the artist began making images while seeking asylum and a residency visa in Belgium, creating a series of self-portraits that refuse erasure and the documentation of bureaucracy
The Dutch-born Moluccan artist is interested in how class, rather than race, creates solidarity among immigrant communities through tender images of young men in Europe
The third edition of the festival in Doha, Qatar is anchored by As I Lay Between Two Seas, which depicts identity as a fluid process
The artist tells BJP why returning to Autograph Gallery – the first team to commission her – to exhibit the show feels so right
Making use of the Palestine Museum’s large digitised collection, Rachel Dedman curates photographic context to visual heritage not “limited to colonial collections”
We sit down with Slidefest organiser and Gulf Photo Plus Director Mohamed Somji to hear about the motivations behind the event and this year’s theme, Diaspora
180 Studios hosts Selah, the largest exhibition of the inimitable photographer and filmmaker to date