“Maybe more than the place I live, the place where I will be buried will define who I am, in the end…My chosen photographs are flashes about myself—and my death…” An award-winning series on childhood, memory, identity, and ephemerality.
What photobooks stood out to fellow photographers, book publishers and editors over the past year? We’ve gathered a diverse, eclectic list of 25 “personal favorites” from 2017—filled with inspiration and discovery for the new year!
In recent years, the number of mosques in Turkey has increased dramatically. These photos investigate the ideologies behind this surge and get at one key question: what is Turkish identity?
Best of 2017: Five of Our Favorite Video Interviews
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Step into the studios, homes, and exhibitions of some of your favorite photographers through these exclusive video interviews. This is a selection of our favorites from the past year.
Taking his cues from the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Venezuelan photographer Luis Cobelo captures photos of real people and places in South America to create his own mythical mindset, Zurumb
Using huge hand-built cameras, and printing directly from life onto photo paper, John Chiara creates unique sculptural images that are stunningly beautiful and surprisingly intimate.
How Has Breaking News Changed? Thoughts from The Guardian’s Photo Department
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With more than 20 years of picture editing experience, The Guardian’s Head of Photography offers her thoughts on the contemporary news landscape and the future of photography in the news.
Artifacts from the Now: Stephen Shore’s MoMA Retrospective
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How does the ordinary become art? Packed with photographs from over fifty years of Shore’s varied (and storied) career, MoMA’s landmark retrospective offers a poignant reflection on the revolutionary import of his pioneering vision.
Critically Acclaimed: 75 Experts Name the Top Photobooks of 2017
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“Magazines end up wrapping French fries—books remain.” After canvassing the world’s photography experts for their favorite publications of the past year, we have come up with a list of 11 publications that will remain in our shelves and our minds.
Confront “The Enemy” in this Virtual Reality Exhibition
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A virtual experience at MIT explores urgent questions about the nature of war photography, photojournalism, and the purpose of photographs taken during a conflict.
The acclaimed photography magazine’s managing editor speaks with LensCulture about the value of confronting work that is vastly different from your own—and how that broadens your perspective, teaches you new visual languages and offers fresh ways of seein
Painterly, almost Impressionistic street photographs shot through cloudy bus stop shelters—structures that offer calming, private moments and a respite from the chaos of the surrounding world.
From Concept to Cover Image: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times Magazine
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In this exclusive feature, a photo editor at one of the great Sunday magazines reveals the process behind assigning, designing, and shooting two recent covers for the publication.
From Concept to Kitchen Table: Shooting a Cover for The New York Times Magazine
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In this exclusive feature, a photo editor at one of the great Sunday magazines reveals the process behind assigning, designing, and shooting two recent covers for the publication.
Called the most sacred Buddhist temple in Thailand, Wat Phra Kaew attracts hordes of tourists from around the world. Here, a Bangkok local attempts to see this landmark from an outsider’s perspective.
“There are little surprises hidden everywhere—often they escape our notice.” One street photographer’s search for tiny, peculiar traces of humanity in reality—focusing on the oddities of the body within the urban fabric.
“We Hold the Power to Shift Perceptions”—Aida Muluneh on the Photographer’s Purpose
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The founder of the first international photography festival in East Africa (and an artistic force herself) explains her own daring use of primary colors while calling upon us to help increase diversity in the photography world.
This extraordinary series (winner of this year’s W. Eugene Smith Fund), goes well beyond spreading general awareness of the migrant crisis to offering its subjects (or better yet, collaborators) a platform for nuanced, authentic self-representation.
The Enduring Power of the Printed Page: Thoughts from Michael Mack
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Over the past 20 years, Michael Mack has helped some of the great photographic artists publish their work in book form. In this down-to-earth conversation, he offers his expert insight on the past, present and future of publishing.
“I Only Take Pictures During Winter”—Thoughts from a Magnum Photographer
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20 years after his father’s sudden death, Jacob Aue Sobol compiled a collection of all his prior work in his honor. Learn more about Sobol’s journeys through Greenland, Siberia, Tokyo—and those he took within himself.
Process, Place, Imperfection: In Conversation with Gallerist Anna Walker Skillman
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Drawing on decades of experience in the fine art world, renowned gallerist Anna Walker Skillman offers her perspective on what’s shifted and what remains unchanged at the core of great photography.
A discomfiting, even dystopian, view of London as a grinding money machine, or a stage play “designed by a sadistic choreographer bent on reinforcing the loneliness of urban dwellers in the 21st century.”
LensCulture spent a morning following Ballen around a massive, immersive installation he created at Arles this summer—explore the artist’s labyrinthine unconscious (and your own) through this video interview.
Hovering on the border between the land and the sea, the past and present—a series of award-winning diptychs about that passing, pernicious mood: nostalgia.
Following the coast of the United Arab Emirates, a series that explores the unique structures along the shoreline—and, subsequently, the country’s socioeconomic climate.
The second in a series of deeply personal interviews with some of our favorite street photographers—this one touching on identity, ethics, and the open mindset needed to make great photographs.
“The photographs that appear in cookbooks are rarely just about food. They are rich documents that illustrate the lives and times in which they were published. They raise questions which cut to the core of the most human of activities…feeding others and o
Your Guide to Paris Photo 2017: The LensCulture Editors’ Preview
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As every November, Paris Photo gathers photography-lovers from all over the world to celebrate images, photobooks, and all things photographic. Discover our editors’ picks from across the city.
Most documentation of the (widely unrecognized) post-Soviet states like Abkhazia and Transnistria turns them into stereotyped time capsules from the Cold War era. Here, two photographers reveal a different side, focusing on the commonality between young peopl
Discover here a different vision of street photography: images that are “separated from the decisive moment, the extraordinary, and juxtapositions in the humorous tone. Rather, I look for the simple, the essential, the light…”
In the far north of France, a curious community has formed around the creative destruction of cars—”not for a trophy but a good crash.” Learn more through this multi-disciplinary investigation.
Patterns and Privilege, East and West: Jeffrey Milstein’s LANY
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These soaring aerial photographs pair Los Angeles and New York from above, showing us enthralling visual patterns while hinting at the discrepancy between how the rich and poor live in America.
