Reading Time: 4 minutes Buck Ellison’s first monograph delves into the visual ambiguity afforded by a wealthy class of people
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Xu is the winner of this years Grand Prix prize at the Hyères International Festival Fashion and Photography. Here, we revisit an interview originally published in March 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes Newly nominated to Magnum Photos, Price unpacks notions of identity and perception in the realm of photographs, the real world, and beyond
Reading Time: 6 minutes British Journal of Photography first met the US photographer, Debi Cornwall, back in 2017, when…
Reading Time: 8 minutes A four-day virtual festival showcases several of Neshat’s award-winning films from 20 to 24 June. To mark the event, we revisit an interview with the Iranian artist discussing her latest body of work Land of Dreams
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unbeknown to his parents, who are unaware of his sexuality, Xu returned home to create temporary installations exploring his identity in a space that has historically repressed it
Reading Time: 5 minutes Lê reflects on a significant strand of recent American history, touching on interweaving narratives, past and present
Reading Time: 3 minutes We are expanding the exhibition space for OpenWalls Arles 2020. As part of this second…
Reading Time: 8 minutes “If we don’t look at them, or if we try to sanitise it, then it’s not honest to this brutal experience of being homeless,” says Danish photographer Thilde Jensen, who is currently raising funds to publish an impressive four year project on homelessness in America, The Unwanted. Shot over four years in four American cities – Syracuse, Gallup, Las Vegas, and New Orleans, Jensen is currently raising funds on kickstarter to publish the project as a book, which will include 120 colour images, as well as a poem by Gregory George – a homeless man she met in New Orleans – and an essay by Gerry Badger.
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 1989, a record number of 71,000 Soviet Jews were granted exodus from the USSR after a century of radical changes, fuelled by a wave of anti-semitism. Between 1988 and 2010 over 1.6 million Jews left the territory of the former Soviet Union, most of them settling in Israel but others heading for Germany, Canada, Australia, and the United States.
Irina Rozovsky was seven years old when her family fled from Russia to America in 1988. “It’s ironic in retrospect,” she says. “The USSR was a closed up place where Jews were discriminated against; in the end we were the ones that got to leave and seek out a better life. It was like winning the lottery.”
Rozovsky, now 37, lives in Georgia, US, with her husband and two-year-old daughter. “In my work I’m always circling back to the beginning of things, which for me is leaving one place and settling in another, adapting to a new life,” she says. “My photographs are not autobiographical, but I guess that history and the search for the familiar echoes in how I see. Not being able to see the place that you remember, I think that drives my photography.”