Photography

Sissie Chang Don’t Throw Away Your Daughters My grandmother just celebrated her 98th birthday. She’s lived with my two aunts for as long as I can remember. Growing up, I don’t rec…

In this conversation, Rhea L. Combs and Deborah Willis speak to the power of photographs to envision love and connection for Black American families.

It's always fascinating to peek into the flat files and onto the walls of photography collectors. And even more interesting, is to examine the compilations made by collectors who are photographers themselves. Frazier King, lawyer-turned-photographer, 15-year board member of the Houston Center for Photography, and avid photography collector is releasing a book based on his…

Bey does not simply document Black life, but Black existence in a nation-state built upon the creation and maintenance of our subjugation.

There are so many talented women photographers in our industry. As finaly settle in 2020 we look at 20 of them that will thrive this year.

It's hard for me to describe the fascination that William Eggleston's photographs exert on me.

Gay Burke, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, October 28, 1973

As a collection, the Polaroids are remarkable in their consistent and determined attitude. They are bald presentations of individuals without mannerism or style and yet they are distinct, they are compelling, and their directness is palpable.

Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville by Robert Doisneau; This photograph is one of the icons of eternal love. A young man stands in the street, surrounds his girlfriend with his arm and kisses her passionately in front of the Paris City Hall, stopping the world around him.

Mofokeng, who died in January, made work that waded through themes of history and land, and helped shape the course of South African photography.

History generally presents itself to the future in visual terms that signify the distance between the two points of time from its creation and its re-purposing and its re-examination. The fallacy in photographic terms of historical representation and its distribution of intent are intertwined betwee

When she was in her 80s, Ida Wyman (1926-2019) shopped a proposal for her memoir, Girl Photographer: From the Bronx to Hollywood and Back. It was the story of her career as one of the few women photojournalists working for picture magazines like Life and Look. Unfortunately, at the time, the publishing industry failed to recognise... Read more »

"Hipster! Fuck off!" reads the graffiti on a paint-splashed wall in Shoreditch, captured by renowned photographer [Dougi

Lange's famous images made for the federal Farm Security Administration represent only a fraction of her work

Inspired by the distinctive qualities of youth culture and identity, Sao-Paulo-based photographer Hick Duarte has crafted a unique visual language that blends documentary wit

from Manhattan Out @ Raymond Depardon and courtesy Steidl

What exists of the sensual atmosphere is counterbalanced by scenes like street-side school for teaching the newly-blind how to walk and the mangled bodies, living and dead, just hanging around.
By Owen Campbell, ASX, September 2015

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"One often wrongfully compares photographs to paintings. This is nonsense. The image does not refer to painting but to something alive through which passes silence..."

Towards the end of her life, Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965) remarked that "all photographs―not only those that are so-called 'documentary,' and every photograph really is documentary and belongs in some place, has a place in history―can be fortified by words." 

Picture editor at The Sunday Times Magazine, Russ O’Connell, sheds light on his role at the widely-respected publication and what he looks for when commissioning photographers for the all-important cover shoot

The brief life and tragic death of Francesca Woodman only seems to deepen the mystery of her powerful and provocative work. But who was she, beyond the adolescent artist whose…