The London Street Photography Festival is dead. Long lives the London Festival of Photography. Launched as a strict street photography festival in 2011, it has now widened its remit to…
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Beneath The Surface is Steve Bloom’s first exhibition of photographs he took in the mid-1970s in South Africa, during apartheid. “This body of work is a reflection of South Africa…
Kurt Tong was born in Hong Kong in 1977, but quickly moved to England. “I got sent here for school,” he says, “and I married and started a family here.”…
Simon Roberts is best known for his monographs Motherland and We English, both published by Chris Boot. But, over the past 18 months, the photographer has been looking at modes…
Wasma Mansour was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, but is now based in London, where she has been completing a research project at the London College of Communication. Her work…
Frederick Wilfred died in 2010, but for 60 years of his life, he took a camera with him wherever he went. In the 1950s, he worked as a chief photographer…
Marilyn would have enjoyed herself. Last night at Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea, over flutes of Dom Perignon, all anyone was talking about was Marilyn and Larry Schiller’s photos of…
Fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe’s smile still dominates the Promenade de la Croisette in Cannes, gracing the poster of this year’s film festival. Without a doubt the most…
The New Yorker Sam Shaw began his career as a photographer in the 1940s with Collier’s magazine. In 1951, he began working in the film industry as a photographer for…