Made on a residency with the Lee Ufan Arles x Guerlain Art & Environnement Prize, Pooya Abbasian’s Soli-Sombre responds to our attempts to control nature, the bombing of Iran and – most of all – how images intersect with both. BJP caught up with him during the opening week of Les Rencontres d’Arles.
Opening 6 March at The Photographer’s Gallery, this year’s lens-based artists feature collaborative projects, installations, video and sound pieces, and experimental conceptual photography
Working with an archive of photographs made over a century ago, the artist folds the gaze back onto the Eurocentric lens that shaped the images in The Fold
“This is an ambitious, multilayered project,” says Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of Photo Elysée and Jury President of the Lausanne museum’s biennial prize for a mid-career photographer, commenting on the latest recipient, Hannah Darabi’s Why Don’t You Dance?
The photographer, a One to Watch 2025, shoots her community in black and white, inspired by ideas of exile and making mistakes
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.
Bound by Two Homes blends Iranian cultural iconography with quintessentially British spaces to dissect identity
Using archive imagery, collaboration, extreme close-ups and staged photographs, the Iranian photographer delves into portraiture and culture
The Iraqi-Iranian artist tells BJP about the story behind her recent project ahead of the 7th edition of the annual Jameel Prize
Contributing artists Mounir Raji, Tina Farifteh and Rosângela Rennó discuss their projects with BJP as responses to questions around home, migration & diaspora, and colonialism.
