Reading Time: 4 minutes Sixteen series from Gupta’s oeuvre go on show at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, in what is the artist’s first, major UK-based retrospective. Ahead of the opening, Gupta reflects on almost half a decade spent making work responding to the injustices suffered by gay men across the globe, himself included
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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
Reading Time: 7 minutes Neville’s Deutsche Börse-nominated project, Parade, is a portrait of a community in which farming is central to their way of life. In his new publication, the photographer calls for changes to land policy, and here, he reflects on his motives, and the importance of giving back
Reading Time: 3 minutes In her Deutsche Börse-nominated project, Strand explores how photography might literally be transmitted into a painting, employing a method proposed by George H. Eckhardt’s 1936 publication — Electronic Television
Reading Time: 4 minutes Nominated for this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, Kusters reframes memory in a work that maps the atrocities of the Holocaust
Reading Time: 4 minutes Anton Kusters, Clare Strand, Mark Neville and Mohamed Bourouissa have been nominated for the prestigious £30,000 prize
Reading Time: 5 minutes “It has to hit you in the stomach — my interest is in the heart, not the brain,” says Anders Petersen, the Swedish photographer known for his intimate engagement with the underbelly of society
Reading Time: 6 minutes On the event of Photo London, BJP-online presents a round-up of exhibitions taking place in London this weekend
Reading Time: 5 minutes Now in its 22nd year, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is awarded each year to image-makers who’ve made the biggest contribution to the medium in the previous 12 months in Europe. This year the shortlisted artists are: Laia Abril, for her publication On Abortion; Susan Meiselas, for the retrospective exhibition Mediations; Arwed Messmer, for his exhibition RAF – No Evidence / Kein Beweis; and Mark Ruwedel, for the exhibition Artist and Society: Mark Ruwedel. The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced at The Photographers’ Gallery on 16 May 2019.
Reading Time: 12 minutes “It’s a bit hard to find words for this – You don’t look Native to me won the PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant,” says Maria Sturm. “I feel exponentially happy and glad to be sharing the list with other women photographers whose work I admire.”
Sturm has won the prize in a strong year for the PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant, with the 31 shortlisted photographers including Magnum Photos’ Diana Markosian, Sputnik Photos’ Karolina Gembara, and Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize-winner Alice Mann. But her long-term project You don’t look Native to me, which shows young Native Americans in Pembroke, North Carolina impressed the judges with its sensitive approach to its subjects.
