The new exhibition at Zurich’s Museum Rietberg highlights artists working with historic images
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Mathieu Richer Mamousse captures one of Paris’s oldest funfairs as a vibrant social stage where working-class traditions and migrant identities collide on the city’s margins
The French-born artist unmakes images, intervening in their materiality to expose racist, sexist and capitalist tropes and challenge dominant Western aesthetics – all while questioning her own gaze
How did portraiture shape a vision of pan-African possibility? A new show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art explores the ways images of everyday citizens informed political ideology
From Vuyo Mabheka’s imagined childhood ‘popihuise’ to Forensic Architecture’s reconstructed Palestine, Bologna’s Foto/Industria biennial reimagines ‘home’
I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies invites new perspectives on social histories through mixed-media image making
The Austin-born artist engages with the Texas African-American Photography Archive to reveal a compelling portrait of kinship in the American South
A new publication offers a glimpse at the artist’s 30-year collection of personal workbooks, revealing a sense of duty to those she photographs
Chris Killip: ‘Askam-in-Furness’ 1982 at Cooke’s Studios, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, will include almost 80 previously unseen prints and two letters from Killip to members of the community
Fantasy Island is a collective publication from both Northern Ireland and the Republic that addresses some of the longest persisting ideas around the nation