Tag: Photography

Ruth Orkin: Women

She photographed celebrities such as Lauren Bacall and Doris Day and worked for Life magazine and Look, but she has remained largely unknown in Europe. This gem of an exhibition aims to change that
Zarina Bhimji: Flagging It Up

Her quietly reflective films and photographs, with their evocative use of colour and light, are things of beauty, but their true depth and meaning are only revealed on slow looking
Hiroshi Sugimoto

This survey spanning 50 years of the celebrated photographer’s works sees him bringing Madame Tussauds waxworks and stuffed animals back to life, freezing scenes in time and recreating seascapes
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Playing With Fire

Sugimoto, known for his meticulously crafted photographs, here extends his experimentation with the medium as a result of returning to his New York studio after a three-year absence due to the Covid pandemic
Lisetta Carmi: Identities

Motivated by a profoundly humanistic spirit, Lisetta Carmi photographed marginalised communities. One year after her death, the Estorick Collection’s exhibition introduces the UK audience to her images of great strength and tender fragility
Catherine Opie – interview: ‘I am in love with the medium of photography and the aesthetic pursuits of what I can do within it’

The photographer, known for her portraits of west-coast queer culture in the 1990s, today turns her camera to making portraits of architecture and cities, including the Vatican
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography

Africa’s diverse cultural traditions, the history of modern colonialism and present-day social, political and environmental concerns are at the heart of this striking exhibition
Tom Wood – interview: ‘I started doing portraits of these kids hanging around on drugs, or whatever, and some of their parents. It was really tough’

For 50 years, Wood has been out on the streets taking intimate, informal, often quirky, photographs of people. As his first major retrospective takes place at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, he talks about his career and how he…
William Klein: Yes – book review

Klein won his first camera in a poker game and went on to become renowned for his skill in fashion photography, film-making, painting and more. This beautifully produced book brings his work alive
Victoria Sambunaris: High and Dry

In panoramic scenes of the Californian desert, Sambunaris captures the vastness and grandeur of the land, seeing it through the lens of social, political and environmental concerns