From Mary Ellen Mark and Gillian Laub to Alice Mann and Lewis Khan, for many photographers, prom is a way to think about personal and collective identity

From Mary Ellen Mark and Gillian Laub to Alice Mann and Lewis Khan, for many photographers, prom is a way to think about personal and collective identity
What’s your vision of America? Dominating popular culture for years, it’s a country nearly everyone…
“They’re all driven by motivations that are both personal and political to a degree, and they are all self-initiated projects,” says curator Alona Pardo of the photographers in the show Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins. “Some may have started as commissions, but very early on took on a life of their own. It was interesting to think about the role of the photographer, because often the photographer hides behind the camera as a facade. There is also an interesting subtext of the photographer occupying the position of an outsider within mainstream society. They are there, assertively documenting the world.”
Robin de Puy’s new series, Randy, started on a 2015 road trip across the US, after she spotted him by chance in Ely, Nevada, and she asked if she could take his photograph. Back in The Netherlands she found he stuck in her mind, and returned to see him at the end of 2016, in February 2017, and in May 2017, taking “hundreds” of portraits. An exhibition of this work, which includes photographs and videos, is on show at the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht from 26 January-13 May; Hannibal also recently published the series as a photobook.
From rare interviews to important technological advancements: a snapshot of photographic history from the BJP archive
It’s the scandal of the season – a young Anglo-Indian photographer Souvid Datta has been…