For the fifth part in our series that highlights visually-rich art books, Tim Clark sits down with Guillaume Simoneau’s recently published Love and War, and ponders the complex and overlapping narratives of a female soldier fighting in the Iraq war and a love story gone awry.
For the fourth edition in our new series exploring visually-rich art books, Tim Clark reflects on the performative life and real-time experience of photographs in Tom Lovelace’s publication, Work Starts Here.
The 44th edition of the pioneering photography festival – Les Rencontres d’Arles – held annually in the south of France is now underway, and despite its strange curatorial proposition still continues to enthral audiences. Tim Clark reports back from the opening week.
For the third instalment of our series looking at visually rich art books, we consider the delicate and meditative works of Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi, on the occasion of her latest book – Ametsuchi – published by Aperture.
Continuing our new series on visually-rich books, Tim Clark turns his attention to historic images of popes and bishops looking through telescopes in the Vatican Observatory, featured in the publication Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name.
A new membership scheme from The Photographers’ Gallery aiming to nurture the next generation of art collectors and philanthropists, launches tonight. We talk to Director Brett Rogers about the project, and about future prospects and challenges as the organisation celebrates the first anniversary of its reopening.
In the first of a new series focusing on visually-rich art books and publications, Tim Clark looks at the disturbingly sublime images of the photographer Richard Mosse, whose images from wartorn Congo are currently showing in Venice and are to be featured in a 240-page book from Aperture.
London-based artist duo Broomberg and Chanarin scoop the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013 for their imaginative reworking of Bertolt Brecht’s 1955 War Primer.
On Self-Portraiture, a collaboration between Brook Hobbins, a sculptor and myself.
As the second edition of Liverpool’s international photography biennial LOOK/13 launches, Director Patrick Henry talks about the world-class programme that’s in store.
The UK’s newest photography festival, Diffusion, has just opened to the public in Cardiff. We speak to its director, David Drake, about opportunities, challenges and what sets it apart from the rest.
The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013 has opened at The Photographers’ Gallery in London and offers the most expanded view of what photography is, or can be, since its inception.
The power and immediacy of vernacular photography prevails in the two stand-out shows at this year’s FORMAT international photography festival. We report back from the opening weekend.
Liverpool Biennial curator Lorenzo Fusi has been announced as the new Artistic Director of Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery.
Multi-media exhibition TROLLEYOLOGY celebrates the first ten years of a small but potent publishing house and the life of a maverick publisher and champion of documentary photography.
Four photographers have been shortlisted for this year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, organised by The National Portrait Gallery.
My art grows around me. My flat is filled with objects I have made over the last few years. There is always something going on, something new developing. But this creativity in the living-room, due to M.E. my only possibility, […]
Melinda Gibson, Photomontage XVI, (taken from pages 133,169,196), mixed media, 74.5x91mm, 2009-11.
Despite numerous delays following its closure for renovation in 2010, The Photographers’ Gallery has announced that it will finally unveil its new home on Ramilles Street in Soho, central London on Saturday 19 May 2012.
Three years after graduating from Glasgow School of Art photographer Elizabeth Wewiora discusses her career path so far and takes us along for the ride.
The photographs of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Amber’s films have been inscribed in the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register as an archive of national cultural significance.
News of current public realm and gallery commissioning projects.
If success begets success then the latest incarnation of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 at The National Portrait Gallery is no exception.
Cable car by Suzanne Moxhay.
“I want the experience of art to transport me, move me, make me feel what it describes,” remarks Nan Goldin.
