Black and White Photography
An unnerving portrait of the USA’s fractured society
A new photobook explores America’s increasing inequality, division and toxic culture wars in a historic election year.
Written by: Isaac Muk
Evocative photos capturing the final months of Yugoslavia
Signs by the Roadside — Miro Kuzmanovic reflects on using photography to navigate senseless acts of war and losing one’s homeland and youth.
Written by: Miss Rosen
The transformation of China during the 20th century
Impressions of Empire — A new exhibition brings together the work of three photographers – Fan Ho, Marc Riboud and James Whitlow Delano – to cover the history and geography of China from the 1940s to the early 2000s.
Written by: Miss Rosen
The pioneering Black artists who revitalised photography
The world‘s a stage — Leading art critic Robert Storr reflects on the photographers – from Seydou Keïta, to Malick Sidibé, to Carrie Mae Weems – who helped to transform and redefine the medium.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Pensive photos of London in the ’70s and ‘80s
Portal to the past — A new book brings together the work of Berris Conolly, whose neutral, undramatic style of photography allowed for intimate and revelatory cityscapes.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Poetic photos of an East London neighbourhood
Clapton on film — Mico Toledo’s latest project saw the photographer roaming the streets of Clapton, capturing its diverse residents and moments of quiet beauty.
Written by: Camilla Patini
Photographer Chester Higgins‘ African American odyssey
The Indelible Spirit — A new exhibition celebrates the photographer‘s early work, and shows his unwavering commitment to capturing the complexities of Black life across America.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Ming Smith’s lyrical portrait of Black America
Breaking boundaries — A new exhibition of the African-American photographer’s pioneering work celebrates an artist who, over her five-decade-long career, has always followed her instinct over the status quo.
Written by: Miss Rosen
A photographer’s elegy to a divided New York community
Remnants of an exodus — Al J Thompson reflects on his series capturing a once-thriving diaspora in Spring Valley under threat of gentrification and the dramatic shift in its demographic and political landscape.
Written by: Huck
A bustling portrait of Iran on the brink of revolution
Before the storm — Photographer Janine Wiedel recalls travelling to Iran in 1976 to capture everyday life there, two years before the stirrings of the Iranian Revolution began and would irrecovably change the country.
Written by: Chloé Meley
Evocative photos of San Francisco’s vibrant streets
Shadow play — Photographer Yoshi Yubai discusses his new book, a collection of almost 200 gritty black and white street photographs that capture the spectrum of life in the Californian city.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Revisiting the early years of New York’s punk explosion
Rebels & Dandys — Photographer Gary Green recalls documenting a pivotal moment in music history, when the likes of the New York Dolls, Blondie, and The Ramones dominated the city’s underground scene.
Written by: Miss Rosen