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In photos: Electric nights in ’70s Japan

Tokyo–Koza — Keizō Kitajima’s new photobook explores the explosion of party culture of Tokyo and Okinawa during an era of rapid change in the country, as well as its stranger turns.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
© 2026 A. B. Bell

In photos: Black Texas life since emancipation

Kinship & Community — A new photobook and exhibition showcases the rich culture, history and community of African American folks in the Lone Star State, whose existence in the region predates colonial Britain.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Harry Gruyaert’s vintage, kaleidoscopic scenes of New York

A Sense of Place — For 50 years, the Belgian photographer and Magnum Photos member has been capturing NYC’s colourful chaos. A new photobook and exhibition showcase his unique, technicolour view of the city.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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Tish Murtha © Ella Murtha

Tish Murtha’s searing documentation of broken Britain

Vandalism on a Grand Scale — Capturing youth unemployment and poverty in north-east England during the ’80s, the photographer never lived to see her work published. A new photobook by British Culture Archive brings her eye-opening work to light.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

A tender portrait of life and ritual from Mexico City’s streets

Órale — For the last six years of his life, photographer, collector and designer Michel Hurst documented death rituals, street life and religious pageantry in contemporary Mexico. A new monograph showcases his work. 

  • Culture
  • Roxana Diba

On the frontlines of Britain’s ’80s protest movements

Protest and Equality — Against a backdrop of Thatcherism, hospital closures and global conflict, photographer Sarah Saunders was a documentarian of the long decade’s effects on society, as well as the communities actively resisting it.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

Andrea Modica’s 40 year long Italian Story

Storia — The Italian American photographer first ventured to her ancestral country in 1987, beginning a decades long exploration and documentation of it.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
© Mads Nissen

A stark, confronting window into the global cocaine trade

Sangre Blanca — Mads Nissen’s new book is a close-up look at various stages of the drug’s journey, from production to consumption, and the violence that follows wherever it goes.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

Free-spirited, otherworldly portraits of Mexico City’s queer youth

Birds — Pieter Henket’s new collaborative photobook creates a stage for CDMX’s LGBTQ+ community to express themselves without limitations, styling themselves with wild outfits that subvert gender and tradition.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk

The last days of St Agnes Place, London’s longest ever running squat

Off the grid — Photographer Janine Wiedel spent four years documenting the people of the Kennington squat, who for decades made a forgotten row of terraced houses a home.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk
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