Taking a new approach to documentary photography after a near-death experience in Libya, Guy Martin captured Turkey’s fantasies and created a series which was recently published by GOST. “To not learn from that event in April 2011, I couldn’t do that to myself,” he says. “I couldn’t justify it to my family, I couldn’t be put in that same situation again,” he says. “The starting point was to take control of my photography, to use my photography instead of letting it use me.”
In a first for BJP we have partnered with the Hamburg Triennial of Photography this issue,…
“Throughout human history the depiction of the human body has been curiously investigated,” writes BJP‘s…
Put together on little budget, and without subsidies from the Northern Irish government, Belfast Photo Festival gives heft to the claim that Belfast is a hotbed of contemporary photography. Many of the exhibitions on show are themed around sexuality and gender, but there are also more open-ended group shows – many of which were curated through an international open submission process, moderated by a panel of experts from MoMA, MACK, FOAM, Magnum Photos, The New York Times, and BJP
“It’s time to leave! If you must die, die in the open sea! You must…
Daniel Castro Garcia has scooped a solo show at London’s TJ Boulting Gallery with a project showing the plight of those caught up in the European refugee crisis
Michael Mack, one of the judges of the British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Prize, grew up in Zimbabwe and was educated in Yorkshire. He worked at the top of Steidl for seventeen years before launching his eponymous independent publishing company.
With the deadline for entering this year’s International Photography Award not too far away, BJP has called on each member of our elite judging panel and asked, what it is they are looking for in this year’s winning series
This year marks the 11th edition of British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award. It…
Both Calypso and Hammond were awarded at a private view on Wednesday night, and will…
