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Extreme Pain, but Also Extreme Joy
Casting an unflinching eye onto the realities of giving birth during the pandemic, LA-based photographer Maggie Shannon’s award-winning project is an important document of an often-unseen yet universal experience.
15 Most Popular Discoveries, Interviews and Visual Stories from LensCulture in 2021
Trinity
Using a custom-built camera obscura, Oliver Raymond Barker communes with the elements to build an alchemical portrait of Scotland’s Rosneath Peninsula, excavating its many histories in the process.
The Fulani Project
In the second edition of “Arrivals,” Wesley Verhoeve introduces us to Tariq Tarey’s latest project; a beautiful portrait series of the Fulani community of his home state of Ohio.
At Night Gardens Grow
This spectral offering transports us into a landscape populated by anonymous figures and restless animals, navigating their way through the dead of the night.
Favorite Photobooks of 2021
39 curators, artists, editors and other photography experts reveal their personal favorite photobooks from 2021 — a delightfully diverse list of great recommendations.
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Family Album
An intimate family album documents the freedoms of childhood among six siblings “at the edge of the world” in rural France.
Announcing the Winners! LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards 2021
Announcing the winners of the 2021 Black & White Awards! Discover the 38 remarkable photographers making work that plays with the dynamic relationship between light, dark and all the tones in between.
7 Days of Garbage
Inviting his subjects to his Californian backyard with a week’s worth of their trash in tow, Gregg Segal’s confronting portraits draw attention to our careless relationship to waste.
The Class of 2021
Across the world, students are graduating after an unimaginable year. With help from their fellow classmates, artist and writer Dylan Hausthor reflects on the wild ride of completing an MFA amidst the chaos of 2020.
Street Photography Guide
Download our free 86-page PDF, filled with advice, inspiration and recommendations from photographers like Matt Stuart and Arko Datto, photobook publisher Dewi Lewis, and top photo editor Olivier Laurent.
Homebound with my Parents
During Covid isolation, this Irish street photographer shifted his focus to staging irreverent cartoon-like tableaus starring his parents.