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Working from an archive of old negatives Arrayah Loynd invites the viewer on a lush, vibrating adventure into her mind’s eye as she constructs an alternative to “photographic memory.”

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/arrayah-loynd-and-then-you-were-gone

A new exhibition in Berlin features stunning large one-of-a-kind artworks — photographs that are transformed in the darkroom into images that seem to vibrate with energy.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jeff-cowen-jeff-cowen-new-large-abstract-works-at-house-berlin

Announcing a group show celebrating new contemporary photography, featuring 64 award-winning photographers — April 25-28, 2024.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-lensculture-new-york-exhibition-2024

A new exhibition explores the idea of intimacy through a fresh and surprising lens, bringing together a group of experimental photographers that play with fabrication and manipulation to try to c...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/centre-de-la-photographie-geneve-making-light-of-every-thing

Here’s a sneak peak at some of the great images that will be shown at The Photography Show in New York, April 25-28.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/aipad-photography-show-preview-the-photography-show-by-aipad-2024

Finding peace and refuge in creativity, Jiatong Lu uses photography to heal from childhood trauma reconnecting with herself and others around her in the process.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jiatong-lu-the-secret-place-with-nowhere-to-hide

In honor of her recent passing, we re-publish this article from 2010. With beads, colored thread and scissors, French photographer Carolle Benitah has altered her family photo albums to explore t...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/carolle-benitah-photos-souvenirs

Alastair Philip Wiper photographs huge factories, research facilities and grand feats of engineering all over the world — always with an eye to capturing the “accidental aesthetics of industr...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/alastair-philip-wiper-unintended-beauty

LensCulture’s Big List of International Photo Festivals & Photo Fairs points you to the best photo events around the world. It’s a great way to plan for travel and visual inspiration.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-lensculture-recommendations-photo-festivals-photo-fairs-2024

Can art help shape the way communities interact? In Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora’s powerful new work, young women and their families open about the effects of generational trauma and gendered violenc...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jaskirt-dhaliwal-boora-a-place-called-home

Capturing the devastation caused by a plant pathogen on the ancient olive trees of Salento, Italy, Murray Ballard’s project traces the impact on the region’s past, present and future.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/murray-ballard-ghosts-in-the-field

Diving deep into the world of lucid dreaming through a variety of ancient and contemporary practices, Ludovica De Santis intricately crafts weird and wonderful images fished from her subconscious...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/ludovica-de-santis-onironautica

Describing his work as “visual poetry,” this Czech photographer’s ongoing work in Ukraine evokes the emotional experience of everyday life during war.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/igor-malijevsky-black-and-white-war

Following a family secret from Belgium to Canada, Luuk van Raamsdonk embarks on an emotional journey, piecing together questions of identity, inheritance, and interpersonal dynamics that bridge p...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/luuk-van-raamsdonk-my-sweet-elora

Artistic experiments using antique photo retouching inks and old slide film shimmer with serendipity and new meaning years after they were created and stored away.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/amanda-marchand-re-touch-the-arithmetics-of-distance

This cunning photobook delves into the realm of click farms, revealing how digital addiction and the manipulation of social media content shape our perceptions, challenging the viewer to reconsid...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jack-latham-beggar-s-honey

Two distinct photographic voices dance alongside each other in this new publication, weaving together a playful visual diary of a summer month spent exploring the Italian regions of Veneto and Pu...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/irina-rozovsky-mark-steinmetz-insieme-together

In striking and surreal black and white studio scenes, Francisco Gomez de Villaboa invites us to look a little closer at the human body and explore the manifold issues projected upon it.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/francisco-gomez-de-villaboa-public-matter

Norwegian photographer Tine Poppe’s portraits of cut flowers, shot against landscapes ravaged by climate change, propose a new take on the still life—focusing on the industrial roots of flowe...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/tine-poppe-gilded-lilies

Combining new and archival images, Jaisingh Nageswaran creates a tender and poignant reflection on family history, his childhood memories, and caste-based discrimination in India.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jaisingh-nageswaran-i-feel-like-a-fish

Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer. The second in a two-part series.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-great-portrait-advice-from-award-winning-photographers-part-2

For four years, Yulia Skogoreva has been documenting female sumo wrestlers fighting for recognition in a sport from which they are banned. Here she follows the story of Nana—a young sumo wrestl...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/yulia-skogoreva-salt-and-tears

In this imaginative collection of photobooks “made with a child in mind,” five artists of Ukrainian descent explore the everyday heroism of life in wartime.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/growing-pains-in-pieces

These diptych portraits of the same person, same pose, 20 years apart, evoke the magic that is at the heart of photography and portraiture—and a short, insightful video interview with the photo...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/roderick-mcnicol-a-portrait-revisited-1986-2006

Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer. The first in a two-part series.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-great-portrait-advice-from-award-winning-photographers-part-i

Working in black and white, Jon Feinstein zeroes in on the forms of trees and weedy plants, drawing the eye to details, which act as mirrors for the photographer’s grief and joy during a diffic...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jon-feinstein-breathers-after-alzheimers

Calling upon lost ancestral traditions in his black and white photographs, Olivier Khouadiani enlists the children of Amanikro, a village in Côte d’Ivoire, to connect past and present in the f...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/olivier-khouadiani-golikro

A multi-layered approach to visual storytelling — a conversation, a portrait, and a detail of a personal object or a place — captures the shared experiences of Chinese citizens coping with is...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/yuanbo-chen-whispers

Using alternative photographic processes, Mehrdad Mirzaie reinterprets archival images to question how photographs influence our perception of history and shape our vision of the future.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mehrdad-mirzaie-imago

Here are 15 of LensCulture’s most popular highlights from 2023 — a mix of new discoveries, photobook reviews, interviews, essays, exhibitions and visual stories.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-15-most-popular-photo-stories-from-lensculture-in-2023

Photographer Alexey Vasyliev offers an intimate look into the life and changing culture of the Evens, an indigenous tribe in his hometown of Yakutsk — one of the coldest places on Earth.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/alex-vasyliev-cultural-changes-at-the-coldest-place-on-earth-a-photo-story-from-yakutsk

Nazraeli Press has published work by Alec Soth, Marilyn Minter, Daido Moriyama, and many others. We sat down with Nazraeli’s founder and publisher to learn more about the photobook world.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/nazraeli-press-are-you-ready-to-publish-a-photobook

An eclectic year-end list of favorite photobooks of 2023 — personal recommendations from photographers, photography experts, friends and colleagues around the world.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-favorite-photobooks-2023

Through an intimate portrait of sisters Jae and Jenni, Andriana Nativio recalls her own girlhood bond with nature, while commenting on the forces that seek to disrupt it.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/andriana-nativio-as-we-rest-in-the-shadows

​Following a traumatic brain injury, Lisa Murray delved deep into the inner workings of her mind, camera in hand, in an attempt to piece back together her story. The outcome is a touching, imag...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lisa-murray-for-parts-not-working

Traveling through Gabura Union in Bangladesh, Shunta Kimura documents impact, adaptation, and resilience in his quiet photographs of everyday life on the frontlines of rapid climate change.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/shunta-kimura-living-in-the-transition

Collecting photos from her daily life, the Internet, newspapers, and free image libraries, Swiss photographer Florence Iff amalgamates vast webs of organisms, structures, and scenes into a portra...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/florence-iff-days-of-future-passed

Following in the footsteps of Monet and Van Gogh, Abelardo Morell took his DIY tent camera to the fabled French landscapes of Giverny and Arles in search of a new view.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/abelardo-morell-new-ground-alternative-photography-in-dialogue-with-19th-century-painting

Bringing the myths of her native region of Bavaria into an enigmatic visual reality, Elena Helfrecht has built a photographic ritual she enacts every year around winter solstice.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/elena-helfrecht-rituals-renewal-and-order-from-chaos

In the quiet, lonely hours of dawn, Dave Coyle faces his personal struggle while plotting a path towards the future in atmospheric meditations on the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/dave-coyle-yesterday-you-said-tomorrow

Prompted by personal loss, Ioanna Sakellaraki embarked on a photographic journey back to her native Greece to immerse herself in the culture of grief and explore its liminal space with her camera...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/ioanna-sakellaraki-the-truth-is-in-the-soil

This group exhibition explores the age-old symbol of the bird, gathering together the work of five photographers who each explore this shared winged subject matter in their own distinct visual la...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/rose-gallery-del-cielo

In this challenging exploration of masculinity and patriarchal privilege — through portraits, object studies and nudes — Carolyn Drake performs an exorcism of male power, where empathy and vi...

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/carolyn-drake-men-untitled