“The haenyeo of South Korea may be the last modern heroines whose story must be told,” says Alain Schroeder, whose winning Portrait of Humanity 2020 series documents Jeju Island’s ageing free-divers
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Snezhana von Buedingen’s winning Portrait of Humanity 2020 weaves a delicate tale of the transition from adolescence to adulthood
The Kyoto-based photo festival celebrates its eighth edition with the opening of a new permanent space, renewing its aim of strengthening connections throughout the local community
“I realised that, through photography, I could express myself as loudly as I wanted without feeling uncomfortable or feeling my ideas weren’t strong enough. That’s what photography gave me”
Bourouissa is the winner of this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize. Here, we revisit an interview about his retrospective, which presented 15 years of documenting life on the margins
Russia was once seen as China’s ‘Big Brother’, but now, China is the largest consumer of Russian energy, and one of the world’s most powerful economies. Valya Lee interrogates the relationship between the two neighbouring nations.
Faroq left her native Yemen a year after the war broke out in 2015, and never returned. The experience recast her practice, and she began to turn the camera on herself
Hirve’s work spans the real and the otherworldly: places become symbols, inviting us to reflect on their meanings beyond physical space
Noticing the disparity between social and economic opportunities experienced by young people in Morocco, M’hammed Kilito explores the effects that these simultaneously oppressive and liberating structures have on their lives
British Journal of Photography first met the US photographer, Debi Cornwall, back in 2017, when…