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Ian Beesley: ‘I take photographs for the people – working people, who are...
Street corner off Thornton Road, Bradford, 1977 © Ian Beesley The Bradford artist’s early output was created walking the streets, capturing an industrial society that is now extinct: kids playing,...
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‘Motivated by the desire to document real people’: Reflections on the work of...
Cops Piss Off © Tish Murtha. Tish Murtha was a firm believer that photography could be a tool for social change – here, her daughter Ella reflects on the importance and continued relevance of her work...
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Steven, from the series In the Place © Margaret Mitchell The Scottish photographer reflects on returning to a project she started in 1994 – photographing her sister and her children in impoverished...
View ArticleNick Hedges on Shelter, Camerawork, and photo democracy
Mother and Child, Liverpool, 1971, from the series Home © Nick Hedges His photographs of Birmingham’s late-1960s housing crisis transformed how the urban poor were visualised in the UK. We catch up...
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These are the most exciting photobooks out this winter
Hérédité from No Sovereign Author & The Patients of La Fabrique du Pré’s An ABC of Psychiatry. All images © the authors and publishers Our final books roundup of 2023 takes us from Belgium to...
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Profit, power and TV personalities: Photographing the community in conflict...
Construction and damming of Blairton Burn causing course to collapse between third green and fourth tee; January 2013. All images © Alicia Bruce Set in a coastal Scottish village, Alicia Bruce’s new...
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The power of collaboration, laid out for all to see
Uyghur Community © Carolyn Drake Gathering hundreds of images and contributors, a new book challenges narratives on photographic history and collaboration On 13 March 2021, Patsy Stevenson attended a...
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Nikita Teryoshin goes into the backroom of war
All images from the series Nothing Personal – The Back Office of War by Nikita Teryoshin Shot in arms fairs around the world over the last eight years, Nikita Teryoshin’s Nothing Personal reveals the...
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Micaiah Carter’s portrait equality: ‘I look at Pharrell the same way I look...
All images © Micaiah Carter. Courtesy Prestel Publishing Mixing his signature celebrity portraits with images of his own family, Carter’s new book celebrates unparalleled beauty in everyone Born in...
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Marton Perlaki’s experimental images explore the line between order and chaos
C13 Ice Cube (Blue) 2018 © Marton Perlaki. All images from The Third Hand Considering an uncanny medium and how we understand it, the Hungarian’s new book blends the playfulness with a welcome loss of...
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‘Ray’s a Laugh’ continues to court controversy
All images by Richard Billingham, from Ray’s a Laugh, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Mack A new version of Richard Billingham’s pioneering family project raises the same old questions around access,...
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