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Images from Zied Ben Romdhame’s Desert, Fire, Flood series are among the photographic works on display at an immersive new audio-visual show that invites visitors to contemplate our changing planet.
Curated by composer and Emergence Magazine founder Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Shifting Landscapes is free to enter and runs from 1-10 December at the Bargehouse in the heart of London's South Bank.
Find out more at emergencemagazine.org
Image © Zied Ben Romdhame
Discover the timeless images of Adriano Henney in the latest issue of B+W.
His Venice | Beyond the Mask series includes 30 black & white pigment prints that offer an alternative vision of Venice away from the tourist clichés.
Born in the Veneto region of northern Italy but raised in England, Adriano has been documenting Venice and its famous waterways for many years, enabling him to capture intimate studies of the city.
Image: Two Gondolas © Adriano Henney
Harnessing photography’s power to make a difference, Vital Impacts has launched a new fundraising print sale dedicated to supporting Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, Africa’s first indigenous elephant sanctuary.
The collection, which features work from 100 of the world’s top photographers, includes awe-inspiring nature images such as this one by Marina Cano.
Explore the website at vitalimpacts.org/collections/prints-for-sale
Dusty Trunks © Marina Cano, courtesy of Vital Impacts
In B+W 284, Alan Schaller talks to Graeme Green about his passion for cities, his open-minded approach and how he has developed his distinctive high-contrast style.
Many of Schaller's most arresting images are brought together in a new book, Metropolis – a must-have for fans of his work.
Image © Alan Schaller
Black+White Photography Issue 284 is now on sale!
Highlights include:
- Alan Schaller discusses his arresting street photography
- The influential work of activist and revolutionary Tina Modotti
- Hilina Abebe on her quest to capture Ethiopia’s spiritual heart
- Ye Bing breathes new life into the landscape photography genre
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How to add depth to your pictures
Daniel Meadows’ new London show (.meadows.73)
The life and legacy of Gustave Le Gray
Prix Pictet winner Gauri Gill
Cover © Alan Schaller
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Thirty of Elliott Erwitt’s most celebrated photographs are on display in a five-day pop-up exhibition in Fitzrovia, London. Hosted by SOL LDN, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Bests presents images spanning six decades, from humorous street scenes to historic documentation.
Elliott Erwitt: Personal Bests
30 Tottenham St, London, W1T 4RJ
14 to 18 November 2023
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10.00am to 5.30pm
Website: www.solldn.com
Image: Santa Monica, California, 1955 © Elliott Erwitt image courtesy SOL LDN
As Paris Photo 2023 draws to a close, we share this classic and very fitting image by Frank Horvat, who is represented at the festival by . The Italian born photographer, whose career spanned seven decades, created his signature style by taking models out of the studio and shooting them in inventive locations.
Paris Photo
9-12 November 2023
Grand Palais Éphémère
Place Joffre 75007 Paris
Image: Chaussures et Tour Eiffel, pour Stern, Paris, France, 1974 © Frank Horvat Studio/courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris
Paris Photo 2023 is underway, and throughout the duration of the festival we’re highlighting some of the fabulous monochrome work that has caught our eye.
Today’s featured photographer is Bastiaan Woudt, a self-taught Dutch photographer renowned for his distinctive monochromatic style. His early inspiration came from 20th century photographers such as Irving Penn, Bill Brandt and Richard Avedon.
He is represented at Paris Photo by
Paris Photo
9-12 November 2023
Grand Palais Éphémère
Place Joffre 75007 Paris
Image: Bastiaan Woudt Allure, 2023 © Bastiaan Woudt, courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
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Paris Photo 2023 is underway, and throughout the duration of the festival we’re highlighting some of the fabulous monochrome work that has caught our eye.
Today’s image is by the suburb Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson and is from his 2022 book, Where the World is Melting. Axelsson, also known as RAX, has been photographing the Arctic for more than 40 years. He is represented at Paris Photo by art book publisher
Paris Photo
9-12 November 2023
Grand Palais Éphémère
Place Joffre 75007 Paris
Image: Aleksandr in der Tundra, Siberien. 2016 © Ragnar Axelsson
Paris Photo 2023 begins today and throughout the duration of the festival we’ll be highlighting some of the fabulous monochrome work that has caught our eye.
Today we share with you Oleksandr Suprun’s timeless image, Spring in Forest. Lilies of the Valley, 1975.
Born in 1945 in Ukraine, Suprun belongs to the first generation of the Kharkiv school of photography. He started out concentrating mainly on straight documentary work but later became interested in collage. His subjects were mostly elderly people and children, who he often placed against a sinister-looking urban background with dramatic high-contrast skies.
Since 1981 Suprun has worked as a professor at the Kharkiv Art and Industry University.
His work is represented at Paris Photo by
Paris Photo
9-12 November 2023
Grand Palais Éphémère
Place Joffre 75007 Paris
Image: Spring in Forest. Lilies of the Valley, 1975 © Oleksandr Suprun
Discover the evocative landscapes of Stephen Robert Thornton in B+W 283. Following a long and successful career as a commercial photographer, he is now shooting for himself, and it is the carbon-capturing salt marshes of Lincolnshire that have been his focus since 2020.
His environmental project, entitled Invisible Carbon, has won an award from the St Hugh’s Foundation for the Arts, and a book and exhibition are on the way.
Find out more at stevethornton.co.uk
Image © Stephen Robert Thornton
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A major show on Michel Haddi is underway in Milan, Italy, at 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS gallery.
On display until 22 December are exemplary images from the French-Algerian photographer’s four-decade career, with famous faces such as Liza Minnelli, David Bowie, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Angelina Jolie, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss Linda Evangelista and Yasmin Le Bon.
Haddi, known for his personal and unconventional style, has succeeded in capturing the spirit of an era through the celebrities who have populated the worlds of fashion, film and music.
The exhibition features refined black & white studio shots as well as more unusual photographs with a street vibe, reflecting the artist’s multifaceted personality.
In honour of Haddi’s wide-ranging body of work, a second exhibition will open early next year (16 January to 16 March 2024) featuring nudes and unpublished images. It will also include evocative colour images, many of which are linked to 90s advertising campaigns for brands such as Versace, Chanel, Armani and Yves Saint-Laurent.
A series of events will run alongside the exhibitions, including an artist talk on Thursday 16 November.
Find out more at 29artsinprogress.com
Image 1: Debi Mazar, British Vogue, New York, 1994 © Michel Haddi
Image 2: Kate Moss © Michel Haddi
B+W 281’s Salon star Austen Goldsmith shot this superb image at the weekend, capturing the drama of Storm Babet as it battered the Cornish coast.
Austen writes in his article: ‘If someone had told me 30 years ago that I would end up living in a fishing village near Land’s End, working as a fisherman, I would have told them to check their crystal ball. And if you had told me I would ditch my DSLRs and start shooting film, spending many nights in the darkroom, I would have been somewhat surprised. And yet here I am.'
Check out more of Austen’s work on Instagram at
Image © Austen Goldsmith
Photographs by Jo Spence (London, 1934-1992) feature in a new online exhibition hosted by Richard Saltoun Gallery. Coinciding with the UK’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 50% of profits will be donated to the Pink Ribbon Foundation.
Jo Spence was a central figure in the British art scene of the 1970s and 80s, contributing to debates around photography, feminism and the critique of representation. In the 1970s, she joined the all-female documentary photography collective the Hackney Flashers, who explored the role of the woman in the workplace and home.
Spence was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1982 and, at the age of 46, she began documenting her battle with the disease. The exhibition focuses on three renowned series that came out of this experience: ‘The Picture of Health?’, ‘Narratives of Dis-ease: Ritualised Procedures’ and ‘Phototherapy’.
View the exhibition at richardsaltoun.com
Caption: A Picture of Health: Helmet shot, 1982 © Jo Spence
Collaboration with Terry Dennett
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London’s Hayward Gallery is currently hosting a major exhibition on Hiroshi Sugimoto, one of the most fascinating photographers of our time. For more than 50 years he has created carefully crafted and thought-provoking work that moves between genres and art forms, often exploring themes of time and memory.
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine, which runs until 7 January 2024, is the largest survey of the artist to date. It includes key works from all his major photographic series along with lesser-known works.
In the latest issue (B+W 283) Tracy Calder delves deeper into the exhibition with curator and director Ralph Rugoff – don’t miss it!
Image: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Manatee, 1994
Southbank Centre
Black+White Photography Issue 283 is now on sale!
Highlights include:
- Nick Brandt's latest series addressing humanity’s impact on nature ()
- Magnum photographer David Hurn reflects on his six-decade career
- The masterful and thought-provoking work of Hiroshi Sugimoto
- Capture the beauty of autumn with Lee Frost’s top landscape tips (.frost.351)
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Camera test: Leica Q3
Patrick Demarchelier on show
Celebrating Eadweard Muybridge
The best large-capacity camera backpacks
Cover © Drew Buckley ()
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This intriguing and surreal image is one of a selection of Skye landscapes by Albert Watson currently on show at Hamiltons Gallery, London.
Part of the Scottish photographer’s most personal project to date, which he began 10 years ago, the otherworldly images seek to capture Skye’s magical qualities. Watson recalls: ‘I was terrified of coming to Skye and producing picture postcards. I wanted to create landscapes that were quite mysterious. I deliberately went in October and November because I was hoping for bad weather – and of course I got it.’
Further inspiration came from Victorian romanticism, impressionist painting and the novels of JRR Tolkien. In order to obtain the kind of images he imagined, Watson needed to ‘dominate’ the landscape and slightly enhance it by using a distorted lens.
The exhibition, which runs until 17 November, consists of archival prints of jewel-coloured landscapes and four oversized black & white UV pigment prints on linen.
Image: Glen Claigan through Windshield, Skye Scotland, 2013 © Albert Watson, courtesy of Hamiltons Gallery
Black & white street photography by Lucia Domenici can be seen in a new exhibition at the Coningsby Gallery in London from 9 to 14 October.
The Italian photographer, who lives in London, says: ‘I love capturing unstaged shots that are open to interpretation – this is what I find exciting, it’s a real authentic slice of life.’
The exhibition, called You, Me and Beyond, includes pictures taken in Chicago, New York, London, Madrid and Sydney.
Image © Lucia Domenici
The English Lake District is known for its colourful landscapes, but it is also a place that lends itself brilliantly to a monochrome approach, as Mark Gilligan proves.
‘There’s a grittiness about black & white,’ explains the Lakes-based photographer ‘I’ve always felt that when you strip the colour out of what you see, you’re looking at the reality of what’s there.’
Read Mark’s interview with Nick Smith in B+W 282, on sale now.
Image © Mark Gilligan
Simon Murphy has been photographing the people of Govanhill, Glasgow for some 20 years, capturing the area’s diversity and energy. His latest set of portraits – part of a side project he started in 2022 after winning 100 rolls of Kodak Tri-X medium format film – are included in a new book. Simon discusses his work with Tracy Calder in B+W 282 – don’t miss it!
If you’re headed to Glasgow in the coming months, you can catch Simon’s photographs displayed at Street Level Photoworks (14 October to 23 December).
Image: Bowl Cut Bob © Simon Murphy
‘Bob talked about how the 1970s was a special time for him and when he was talking about it, he went somewhere else in his mind,’ says Simon. ‘I asked Bob to close his eyes and think about that time period, and that was the moment I hit the shutter.’
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Black+White Photography Issue 282 is now on sale!
Highlights include:
- Simon Murphy captures the spirit of a Glasgow neighbourhood
- Veteran photographer Mark Citret talks to Susan Burnstine (.citret)
- Stephen Inggs discusses his large-scale botanical prints
- The minimalistic and magical work of Adrian Vila
PLUS
- Camera test: Pentax K-3 Monochrome
- Celebrating Francesca Woodman
- Exploring the Lake District in B&W
- Our pick of the best kit lenses
Cover © Simon Murphy
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Pictures by Fay Godwin are currently on show at Kestle Barton in Cornwall. ‘Under a turbulent sky’ features 27 black & white prints from her photographic survey of the landscapes of Britain, made for various exhibitions and books between 1972 and 1994. Each image has been personally selected by someone who knew or worked with Godwin and was influenced by her.
Be sure to check out Tracy Calder's brilliant feature on Godwin in B+W 281, in which she shines a spotlight on a photographer whom she argues is still hugely underrated.
Exhibition details:
Fay Godwin: Under a turbulent sky
9 September to 28 October 2023
Kestle Barton, Helston, Cornwall TR12 6HU
Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday 10.30am to 5pm
Website: kestlebarton.co.uk
Image: Fay Godwin, Markerstone, old Harlech to London Road, Gwynedd, Wales, 1976 chosen by Anthony Stokes
A major retrospective of the great 20th-century Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000) is underway in the historic city of Lonata del Garda, northern Italy.
Hosted in the evocative setting of the Rocca Visconteo Veneta, a 1,000-year-old castle, the exhibition features 81 photographs demonstrating Giacomelli’s unique and poetic style.
The works on display include the photographer’s famous Scanno Boy (1957), with its dazzling B&W tones; and his iconic landscapes from the series ‘Presa di coscienza sulla natura’, notable for their gritty, graphic abstraction.
Exhibition details:
Retrospettiva di Mario Giacomelli
Rocca Visconteo Veneta, Lonato del Garda (Brecia), Italy
7 July to 29 October 2023
lonatoturismo.it
Images © Mario Giacomelli
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