The challenge for portrait photography is to provide a meaningful response to the question that lies behind our interest in the faces of people. […]…
Author Sean Sheehan
Helen Levitt is in a class of her own and the singularity of her photography is probably inseparable from the distinctive contour of her […]…
Passing on the Torch The number of photographers represented in Africa State of Mind comes close to the number of countries, fifty four, that […]…
For its 2020 outing, the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie (Biennale for Current Photography) is curated by David Campany around a set of thematically distinct […]…
I Will Greet the Sun Again, a retrospective of the work of Shirin Neshat, was exhibited at The Broad in Los Angeles. The book […]…
For people who cleave to chauvinist/xenophobic/white supremacist notions of identity, whiteness is taken literally: an instantly recognisable marker for racial or chromatic aspects of […]…
By Sean Sheehan Markéta Luskačová went to the seaside, on the north-east coast of England, in 1976 and ‘77 to visit a friend. Returning […]…
The introduction to This Place – a large format photobook (32.00 x 30.00 cm) with the works of twelve contemporary photographers – states how […]…
Any genealogy of the idioms of pre-digital photography needs to acknowledge characteristics of Saul Leiter’s work that went entirely un-noted at the time. He […]…
It is now a truism to point out that digital realm gives scope for changing the ‘reality’ of an image in ways that were […]…