SPOTLIGHTIn Search of Context: Advice from The Photographers’ GalleryA long-time curator at London’s leading public institution dedicated to photography offers great advice for portrait photographers who are looking to take the next step in their careers.Read More
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In Search of Context: Advice from The Photographers’ Gallery
A long-time curator at London’s leading public institution dedicated to photography offers great advice for portrait photographers who are looking to take the next step in their careers.
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In these photographs, witchcraft is shown in its 21st-century guise, documenting the social-media savvy entrepreneurs of Romania’s thriving witch scene and their eye-catching aesthetics.
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In this make-shift quasi-legal settlement on the fringes of Bogota, 270 families can be seen as a microcosm of the country’s complicated story: victims of Colombia’s armed conflict, ex-guerrilla members, single mothers, indigenous and afro...
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Using self-portraits from photobooths, and footage of playground hazing, photographer Rafael Soldi addresses his queer, Latinx identity, touching on subjects related to childhood, loss, immigration...
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Troubled by his reliance on technology to remember his past, this photographer creates visual glitches that mirror the short circuitry of his recollection.
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Announcing the 2018 LensCulture Black & White Photography Award Winners!
We are thrilled to announce the winners of LensCulture’s first ever Black & White Photography Awards! Discover 39 incredible artists who are creating monochrome images across different genres and in diverse cultures worldwide.
Call Me Heena: Hijra, The Third Gender
“I feel like a mermaid. My body tells me that I am a man but my soul tells me that I am a woman…” A penetrating, multi-year report on a unique group of people—who fall outside of Western notions of gender—trying to carve out a...
Experimental Relationship
Pixy Liao started using her boyfriend as a “prop” in her photos, but that evolved into an ongoing 12-year project documenting their unconventional relationship, resulting in some eye-opening images.
A Hard Beauty: A Review of Lynsey Addario’s “Of Love & War”
In her new book, Lynsey Addario grapples with the ethical complexities that come with being a documentary photographer.
Entre Nubes
In this make-shift quasi-legal settlement on the fringes of Bogota, 270 families can be seen as a microcosm of the country’s complicated story: victims of Colombia’s armed conflict, ex-guerrilla members, single mothers, indigenous and afro...
