The Wake of Dust: Contemporary Ruins in the Age of Photography
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By combining found materials with his own unfixed photographs, Thomas Hauser plays with our reliance on the medium as a vessel for memories and nostalgia.
A long-term multimedia project—involving photographs, written interviews, and audio excerpts—seeks to flesh out the thin and stereotyped representation of migrants in mass media. A review of a new show at Foam.
Satisfactory Glitches: Tracing the Inspiration Behind Feng Li’s “White Night”
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In an endless stream of absurd moments frozen by the flash of his camera, this photographer has a knack for capturing the darker, peculiar side of the mundane events that surround him.
These unique in-situ photographs—taken on a beach in Spain—use traditional portrait techniques and theatrical elements to present a study of humanity in repose.
The Interpretation of Images: Retaining Our Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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AI can now interpret photographs with amazing accuracy while also generating fake images that look believably real — so what can humans do to retain an advantage in the world of imagery?
In Brutal Presence: Documenting the Impact of the Grenfell Tower Tragedy
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Turning a critical eye to the impact of gentrification on London’s North Kensington district, photographer Nicola Muirhead uses her camera to record how residents have been affected by the tragic Grenfell fire.
Chasing Light Through Color: A Conversation with Liz Nielsen
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This artist’s lifelong fascination with luminous color sparked her resolve to put the camera aside, instead using her photographic materials to capture pure representations of light and synaesthesia.
Chasing Light Through Colour: A Conversation with Liz Nielsen
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This artist’s lifelong fascination with luminous colour sparked her resolve to put the camera aside, instead using her photographic materials to capture pure representations of light and synaesthesia.
Documenting her exploration of the body in relation to memory and space, artist Patricia Voulgaris creates magnetic photographs that invite her viewer to contemplate their own physical presence in relation to their surroundings.
Strolling around Prospect Park in Brooklyn with a cart full of photographic gear in tow, Bruce Polin creates revealing, compelling portraits of New York City’s diverse inhabitants.
“These portraits present the diversity of gender: there are as many ways to live as there are people, and each one deserves a closer look.” This photographer uses her camera to offer agency to her non-binary subjects, allowing them to frame their own potr
In Japan, drivers rated “y ūryō untensh”—excellent driver—have their own stands at major stations and special markings on their cabs. Highly-rated drivers offer their passengers solitude and privacy. Here, a series of street portraits that pay homa
Drawn to the gestures and forms in old amateur photographs, photographer Fiona Struengmann highlights their compelling subject matter by chemically altering her collected images. The resulting series is a commentary on how photography contributes to memory ac
Best of July 2018: Deadlines for Competitions, Grants, Festivals and More
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Our editors have put together a curated list of worthwhile (and imminent) deadlines for photographers, as well as some upcoming festivals around the world—have a look and best of luck!
Natural Deceptions: Disorienting and Deceiving Portraits of Womanhood
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What does it mean to be a beautiful woman? In this book, photographer Natalie Krick plays with the viewer’s expectations and preconceptions about imagery of sensual women.
Photography and Social Change: Dorothea Lange and the Politics of Seeing
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A new exhibition of Dorothea Lange’s work at the Barbican Centre in London offers a more expansive outlook on the photographer’s life as a trailblazing social documentarian.
Behind the Scenes with HuffPost’s Photography Director
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Christy Havranek speaks about the “craft” of visual journalism, the indispensability of photo editors, and the importance of knowing your audience when you’re putting together a pitch.
Amidst the roots of the tallest mangrove trees in the world, young concheros (or shell pickers) hunt for the precious black shells that will support their families. Felipe Jacome has photographed this practice for a decade.
Portraits of resilience and strength—these young women were captured by Boko Haram and forced to carry suicide bombs. But instead of succumbing to their captors’ torments and committing a violent act, they resisted.
Inspired by the subjectivity of storytelling, photographer Dylan Hausthor creates images that question and bring to light the frenetic nature of visual memory.
These seemingly empty images are charged with history, ambition, and—ultimately—disaster. In this series, photographer Karol Palka documents the wilting interiors of abandoned buildings once associated with the Communist regime.
Why should portfolio reviews be a part of every photographer’s practice? Photolucida director Laura Moya shares her perspective on the necessity of cultivating lasting relationships between photography specialists on an international scale.
Splicing and rearranging the subjects depicted in vintage flea market finds, photographer Kensuke Koike reformats discarded memories into intriguing and precise abstract works.
On an 8,000 mile road trip across the United States, photographer Robin de Puy met a boy living in the small town of Ely, Nevada who became her photographic muse. Here, de Puy speaks about her absorbing series and the history of her powerful relationship wit
What does it mean to be “free”? Magnum’s photographers responded to this prompt with a broad array of powerful work. See our editors’ selection of 43 iconic images from this latest limited-time offering.
What Is Art Photography? Catherine Edelman Offers Her Opinion
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Debuting with Nan Goldin in 1987, Catherine Edelman Gallery has been a revered player in the art world for 30 years. Here, a wide-ranging interview with the gallery’s owner and founder.
Best of June 2018: Deadlines for Competitions, Grants, Festivals and More
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Our editors have put together a curated list of worthwhile (and imminent) deadlines for photographers, as well as some upcoming festivals around the world—have a look and best of luck!
Cette série photographique, d’un genre hybride, mêle des fragments de paysages actuels avec des arrière-plans issus de peintures de grands maîtres anciens. Son titre, que l’on peut traduire par « Paysages mis à jour », est une interprétation qui r
What informs how we look at the world through photography? Aperture’s editor Michael Famighetti offers his thoughts on the importance of knowing the history of the medium as a contemporary photographer, the development of the iconic magazine, and more.
A review of a first-rate catalogue—filled with compelling stories as well as an overview of photography’s relation to painting and other arts—that accompanied a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Freedom and Isolation in the Remote Ozark Mountains
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Deep in the Ozarks, some individuals chose to live in complete solitude. Here, photographer Matthew Genitempo speaks about the necessity of “losing your agenda, quieting your anxiety, and just following along” in order to create a powerful series.
These popular nineteenth-century cabinet card photos have been artfully adapted to make the humans look nearly invisible, while allowing the picturesque natural backgrounds to take center stage.
Poverty runs rampant on Chicago’s West Side, and yet its residents are largely ignored by the media—as well as those around them. A series that looks closely at the people that make up this community rather than considering them as a whole.
DON’T MISS OUT: A fresh and selective early preview of the wide-ranging array of photography that will be on display at Photo London, running from May 17-20, 2018 at Somerset House.
A photographer gathers with her family to clean out their grandparents’ house that had served as a meeting point for over 60 years. Amidst the difficult process of letting go, performing and posing for the camera becomes a way to express their shared grief.
Spurred by incessant propaganda and deeply ingrained national pride, the rights of the citizens of Pyongyang are subsumed by the country’s needs. A series explores this reality for young North Koreans.
