Female in Focus | Photography Awards | 1854 Media
Female in Focus is an award designed to discover, promote and reward the remarkable work of women photographers.| 1854 Photography
Launched on 11 December, a brand new biannual, Clove, has a refreshing take on art and culture. Founded by London-based, British-Indian journalist Debika Ray, the magazine focuses on creative work from South Asia and its global diaspora. “My impression was always that, in Western media, there was a narrow frame of reference when it came to covering parts of the world beyond North America and Europe,” says Ray, who until recently was senior editor at the architecture and design magazine Ic...| 1854 Photography
Misan Harriman highlights protest and resistance, from Palestine to Black civil rights| 1854 Photography
Mohammad Tariq intervenes in found imagery to reveal colonial complicity| 1854 Photography
When Veronica Viacava moved to London, straight out of high school in Milan, she had never studied photography. But she had developed an interest in the concept of the photographic image, beyond the physicality of manually taking pictures, and seeking independence from her family, who didn’t approve of her desire to study the arts, enrolled at the University of Middlesex. Viacava has just graduated, and her work has been deeply personal throughout. When she was 17, her mother passed away, w...| 1854 Photography
Rahim Fortune paints with colour for his latest exhibition at CPW, Kingston| 1854 Photography
Rahim Fortune paints with colour for his latest exhibition at CPW, Kingston| 1854 Photography
The unresolvable question of how to grieve is one that follows every death. For many, the photographic act can be a way of thinking through and processing difficult times. During the two-week period before her grandparents’ house was sold, Röder photographed her family in it – sometimes posing in their clothes and with their belongings – archiving its distinct aesthetic before it disappeared forever. “I wanted to show a different way of dealing with grief and loss,” she explains. ...| 1854 Photography
A photo festival in Istanbul boasts a female-led festival team and a dynamic discovery approach| 1854 Photography
The show at the Whitechapel Gallery pays homage to the artist’s notable role in art-ivism, spotlighting his heavy use of archival photography and manipulating mass-produced images| 1854 Photography
“Melancholy and instinct”: Abeer Khan draws our attention to trafficking, pollution and grief in India| 1854 Photography
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In the studio with Felicity Hammond| 1854 Photography
“I was trained as a sculptor, and this was the first time I had used the camera,” wrote Jacqueline Hassink in the Financial Times in 2011, of her breakthrough project The Table of Power. Between 1993 and 1995 Hassink contacted forty of the largest multinational corporations in Europe, asking to photograph their boardrooms. “I wanted to find a table that symbolised modern society’s most important value: economic power,” she writes. Nineteen refused, while the remaining 21, in Brita...| 1854 Photography
Welcome to Photofusion, a legacy photo co-operative in Brixton| 1854 Photography
Welcome to Photofusion, a legacy photo co-operative in Brixton| 1854 Photography
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Patricia Karallis and Giada De Agostinis, founding editor and editor of the online photography magazine, pick out their top five of the year – including Vincent Ferrané’s book Milky Way| 1854 Photography
Welcome to Photofusion, a legacy photo co-operative in Brixton| 1854 Photography
“This is an ambitious, multilayered project,” says Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of Photo Elysée and Jury President of the Lausanne museum’s biennial prize for a mid-career photographer, commenting on the latest recipient, Hannah Darabi’s Why Don’t You Dance?| 1854 Photography
Why Don’t You Dance? — Hannah Darabi on resistance, memory and movement in Iran| 1854 Photography
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Sarah Brahim’s body as a cartography exploring ritual and gendered resistance| 1854 Photography
Why Don’t You Dance? — Hannah Darabi on resistance, memory and movement in Iran| 1854 Photography
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Nadia Shira Cohen’s series Yo No Di a Luz documents the effect that the complete ban on abortion in El Salvador has had on women – particularly on those forced to give birth to children conceived as a result of rape. “Doctors and nurses are trained to spy on women’s uteruses in public hospitals, reporting any suspicious alteration to the authorities and provoking criminal charges which can lead to between six months to seven years in prison,” writes Shira Cohen. “It is the poorer...| 1854 Photography
Carte Blanche Students 2025: Emerging European photographers take the spotlight| 1854 Photography
Nicholas J.R. White offers a new visual narrative for Barrow-in-Furness| 1854 Photography
1854 Media is a multi-award-winning digital media organisation with| 1854 Photography
1854 Media is a multi-award-winning digital media organisation with| 1854 Photography
Daegu Photo Biennale tackles the Anthropocene| 1854 Photography
A photo festival in Istanbul boasts a female-led festival team and a dynamic discovery approach| 1854 Photography
A photo festival in Istanbul boasts a female-led festival team and a dynamic discovery approach| 1854 Photography
Rahim Fortune paints with colour for his latest exhibition at CPW, Kingston| 1854 Photography
Daegu Photo Biennale tackles the Anthropocene| 1854 Photography
Sarah Brahim’s body as a cartography exploring ritual and gendered resistance| 1854 Photography
Vivian Wan’s family cut out memories from their archives; she had to fill the gaps in herself| 1854 Photography
In Aldershot, a town in Hampshire, England, there is an old 1930s Art Deco theatre called the Empire. Since its renovation several years ago, it operates mainly as a Nepalese community centre. On the top floor there is a restaurant and a temple; downstairs is a function room, where groups of Nepalese men meet up every so often to play xbox, table tennis and traditional Asian games like carrom.| 1854 Photography
“Melancholy and instinct”: Abeer Khan draws our attention to trafficking, pollution and grief in India| 1854 Photography
Vivian Wan’s family cut out memories from their archives; she had to fill the gaps in herself| 1854 Photography
Vivian Wan’s family cut out memories from their archives; she had to fill the gaps in herself| 1854 Photography
Liz Johnson Artur’s workbooks reveal her experimental drive| 1854 Photography
Daegu Photo Biennale tackles the Anthropocene| 1854 Photography
Yancey Richardson marks 30 years with artist-led anniversary exhibition| 1854 Photography
Female in Focus is an award designed to discover, promote and reward the remarkable work of women photographers.| 1854 Photography
The South Korean festival reaches for a new conception of the world in which humans are part of a wider, more symbiotic flow. Artistic director Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais explains| 1854 Photography
BJP catches up with Director Lydia Melamed Johnson to learn more about the fair, this year unveiling the new Discovery sector| 1854 Photography
British Journal of Photography is a thoroughly international publication, dedicated to showcasing the best of photography from around the world.| 1854 Photography
“If you've been to Morocco I think you'll understand that we're a very colourful country, a colourful people. We see every colour being worn. In Morocco that there is the clash of colours and an attitude not to be scared of colours,” says Hassan Hajjaj. His latest exhibition, La Caravane, is about to launch at Somerset House, the first display for the British-Moroccan photographer in London in seven years. His work reflects on identity and culture, which has featured as a big part of his ...| 1854 Photography
“There is this feeling that if someone has won an award, then it will not be a mistake if they are awarded again. But unfortunately selecting this way does not highlight fresh gems and talents. It just creates trends, but not excitement and new-comers. We at Gomma are not afraid to prize unknown photographers," says founder Luca Desienna. This year's awards are now open for submissions with past winners boasting solo exhibitions, international magazine features and photobook publications si...| 1854 Photography
Lianzhou has developed a reputation as an important international location for Chinese photography, having hosted an annual photography festival since 2005. Now it is hoped that the opening of a brand new museum of photography this December will cement Lianzhou as a destination for national and international photographic excellence.| 1854 Photography
Belfast Photo Festival returns to explore place and personhood| 1854 Photography
With his chronicle of the communities struck by government incompetence, the photographer tells BJP that "it’s important to look at history”| 1854 Photography
The British Journal of Photography has been providing the latest photography news and features since 1854. View the latest features and back issues here.| 1854 Photography
Kenyan-born, Washington DC-based photographer Polly Irungu, founder of the collective, is also one of the few Black women photographers to work at the White House| 1854 Photography
At MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, Dare to Look brings together over four decades of work by the Chilean artist| 1854 Photography
Four young European photographers have been named laureates of Carte Blanche Students 2025| 1854 Photography
One degree removed from the media, the French photographer is making work questioning the power of images| 1854 Photography
Welcome to European Kinship: Eastern European Perspective, a special editorial project marking an exhibition of the same name at the Capa Center| 1854 Photography
“It is time for image-makers to get organised to protect themselves”: Fight for your copyright| 1854 Photography
Rahim Fortune paints with colour for his latest exhibition at CPW, Kingston| 1854 Photography
The Austin-born artist engages with the Texas African-American Photography Archive to reveal a compelling portrait of kinship in the American South| 1854 Photography
In partnership with MPB, British Journal of Photography delves into the kit that helps craft Suzie Howell's signature serene images| 1854 Photography
A new publication offers a glimpse at the artist’s 30-year collection of personal workbooks, revealing a sense of duty to those she photographs| 1854 Photography
The discontinued magazine receives a retrospective exhibition as part of Paris Design Week| 1854 Photography
Rapidly expanding across the city’s historic venues since its 2018 inception, 212 Photography Istanbul puts the focus on discovery with an enticing mix of local and international artists| 1854 Photography
Chris Steele-Perkins, Magnum photographer and one of the most acute chroniclers of postwar Britain, has died aged 78| 1854 Photography
“Renewal means the transformative potential of unity,” say winners of Female in Focus People’s Choice 2024| 1854 Photography
The British Nigerian, Oscar-nominated photographer makes his solo debut at Hope 93, Fitzrovia, in The Purpose of Light – stories of global activism| 1854 Photography
The Saudi Arabian artist displays performance work alongside Iranian Shirin Neshat in Cartographies of Presence in London| 1854 Photography
Sophie Green’s romantic vision of a lived Britain| 1854 Photography
At Dover Street Market, Paris, Greek philosophy and surveillance technology illustrate queer bodies| 1854 Photography
“I’ve been exploring what it means to be queer with African heritage”: Growing pains and joys with Ron Timehin| 1854 Photography
A photo festival in Istanbul boasts a female-led festival team and a dynamic discovery approach| 1854 Photography
Chris Killip’s newly uncovered archive is being exhibited in Cumbria| 1854 Photography
Chris Killip: ‘Askam-in-Furness’ 1982 at Cooke’s Studios, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, will include almost 80 previously unseen prints and two letters from Killip to members of the community| 1854 Photography
Some 20 years after Périphérique, a new exhibition collates the artist’s celebrated series with three others to deepen his focus on the subject of cultural representation| 1854 Photography
The UK government is consulting on changes to copyright legislation that will help AI companies at the expense of photographers and other creatives| 1854 Photography
Cutting up the canon of photographic images gave Justine Kurland an interest in collage that has blossomed into The Rose, a celebrated exhibition on show and in print this summer| 1854 Photography
Winner of the Star Photobook Dummy Award 2024, Our Hidden Room portrays a complex yet loving father-son relationship| 1854 Photography
UMMAH: Divine Oneness, Worship Plurality brings together 50 contributors whose work speaks to spiritual intimacy, exile, resistance, memory, and belonging| 1854 Photography
Carrie Mae Weems is an iconic figure and yet, argues a new retrospective in Turin, there is still much more to say about the universality and magic of her extensive body of work| 1854 Photography
Wolfgang Tillmans uses photography and installation to consider knowledge and its circulation| 1854 Photography
Co-curator Fabiana Sotillo explains how the show has been structured and the importance of considering photography as a valid medium of fine-arts| 1854 Photography
The academic is based in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London but, she explains, her work centres around peace photography| 1854 Photography
The Church of Our Becoming is Yulia Mahr's challenge to the binary – here, the artist discusses the body of work as well as her upcoming show at Compton Verney| 1854 Photography
Galerie Bene Taschen exhibit the works of Jamel Shabazz, Joseph Rodriguez and Gregory Bojorquez throughout the 1980s and 90s, documenting the genre’s rise to popularity| 1854 Photography
Mohammad Tariq intervenes in found imagery to reveal colonial complicity| 1854 Photography
Harry Lawson reimagines the classic Western ‘frontier’ against a North East English backdrop| 1854 Photography
Permit to See: A disposable camera raffle raising funds for Gaza| 1854 Photography
A new museum in Rotterdam explores a century of global diaspora through photography in The Family of Migrants| 1854 Photography
Taking risks on your own terms: what Falmouth University’s online MA has to offer| 1854 Photography
Taking risks on your own terms: what Falmouth University’s online MA has to offer| 1854 Photography
A new museum in Rotterdam explores a century of global diaspora through photography in The Family of Migrants| 1854 Photography
Les Rencontres d’Arles returns with an expanse of shows across territories| 1854 Photography
Belfast Photo Festival returns to explore place and personhood| 1854 Photography
With a simple glass device, the London-based Pakistani-Bengali artist turns archival photo books into sinister revelations on British colonial histories| 1854 Photography
Brought up in apartheid-era South Africa, Adam Broomberg’s art has always been political and remains so in the Berlin home studio in which he lives and works| 1854 Photography
The 2025 Wellcome Photography Prize highlights global health challenges through powerful images spanning domestic abuse, climate migration and microscopic disease| 1854 Photography
In The Binding Tide, the artist shifts the focus away from the military manufacturing economies of the area, instead shining a light on its local community and landscapes| 1854 Photography
From themes of mythologised memories and ancestral resistance to decolonial archives, this year’s edition of the world’s biggest photography festival centres global narratives| 1854 Photography
