Tag: Photography

Gordon Parks: Part One

Parks’s photographs of everyday life for black families in the 1950s and 60s lure the viewer in with their lush colours, only to reveal the toxic reality of segregation and racism – something that, 60 years on, still resonates
Esther Teichmann: ‘My work explores our relationship to the maternal, thinking about the mother as first lover’

The artist talks about the inspiration of watery places, lockdown at her parents’ home and how motherhood has changed her as an artist
Domestic Bliss

This exhibition of works from Glasgow Museums’ collection explores the concept of domestic bliss, from domestic labour and feminism to intimate relationships and contested social roles
Cecil Beaton: Bright Young Things

This thoughtfully designed exhibition tells the story of Cecil Beaton and the Bright Young Things perfectly. It is engaging, informative and fun
Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography

I had hoped this would be a show full of challenges and questions, but with its images of bodybuilders, soldiers, bullfighters and athletes, it failed to disrupt the archetypes
Yasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura, Tokyo 2020

In his search for ‘the self’, Morimura takes on the guise of well-known historical figures and characters as he explores postwar Japan and the politics of power
Actinic – Photography in Print

As part of the Actinic Festival, Kristina Chan, Nick Devison, Itamar Freed, Morwenna Kearsley and Marysia Lachowicz show how actinism continues to shape photography and printmaking
An-My Lê – interview: ‘All the striations of important events are retained within the landscape, whether you see it or not’

Photographer An-My Lê talks about her project Silent General and the personal and political tensions that run though her work
Paul Mpagi Sepuya – interview: ‘I’m not making tricky pictures. There’s nothing that’s composed that’s meant to look like something else’

While a quest to understand the myriad undefined potentials of queer social spaces is one factor behind Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s deconstruction of his portraits, primarily he seeks to interrogate the act of photography itself
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Industrial Visions

The Bechers’ austere photographs documenting industrial architecture across Britain, Europe and North America in the second half of the last century are a stark reminder of a lost world of labour