Loupe Magazine

17/05/2024

The Island by Robert Darch
Originally conceived as a response to Brexit, the poetic black and white photographs of the Island convey the heaviness that he felt and reflect Robert’s anxieties and fears about a decision that will affect younger generations for years to come. The Island draws on formative memories and past emotions to realise a sense of place that reflects the times we are living in. The Island has an overriding sense of melancholy emphasised by the bleak monochrome imagery and cold winter light, shifting from dark corners, intimate portraits, misty landscapes and isolated figures. There is an unreality, a dreamlike quality and a horror that is prophetic of events to come in The Island.

The last few copies of The Island are available to buy via Robert's website- link in his bio

All images Copyright of Robert Darch

21/04/2024

Loupe back issues still available to buy via newsstand, link in our bio!

Above images are taken from Jasper by Matthew Genitempo ( ), featured in Issue Seven

Shot in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, Matthew
Genitempo’s series depicts an area of desolate beauty, as well as the men who’ve chosen it as a home. Created as part of Genitempo’s Master of Fine Arts and inspired by the work of poet and land surveyor Frank Stanford, Jasperrenders its subjects in exquisite detail, offering a rare glimpse into a secluded part of the American South

Read the full interview with Matthew in Issue Seven, available to buy through the link in our bio

All images Copyright of Matthew Genitempo

24/03/2024

The Rivers Melt, an exhibition from Hanna-Katrina Jedrosz ( )  opening at , private view 7th April 2024

The Rivers Melt is a forthcoming project from documentary photographer Hanna-Katrina Jedrosz which looks at the area of Europe where the Iron Curtain once lay.  The work shows that these 'borderlands' have become reclaimed by nature, forming Europe's 'Green Belt', and are now a symbol of peace and harmony where once there was division and violence.  

The exhibition is curated by .houghton8 and is open Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays from 4th April- 31st October 2024, 10am-4:30pm

All images Copyright of Hanna-Katrina Jedrosz
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13/03/2024

The Garden by Sian Davey ( )

Sian Davey’s most recent body of work, The Garden, sees the artist make use of her own garden in Devon as the setting for the project. Davey collaborated with her son Luke to completely transform their outdoor space, turning it into a safe haven for both wildlife and their community. The picturesque garden, teeming with native wild flowers, in turn becomes the most tender backdrop, fostering the images that make up the project.

“As the garden evolved it became an expression of joy, interconnectedness, yearning, sexuality, and defiance. The garden became a metaphor for the human heart itself.” - Sian Davey

The Garden shows us how creating an environment of love and acceptance can allow people to forget their inhibitions and partake in an act of community, which results in a set of images that seem to access their subjects with a depth that is hard to find.

The Garden photobook, published by is available to pre-order now.
You will also find images from The Garden hanging in a large-scale outdoor exhibition in the Photography Quarter, Soho

All images Copyright of Sian Davey
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06/03/2024

Some images from the 'Earth Monsters' exhibition, opening tonight at . The exhibition features work from 9 female presenting artists to celebrate International Women's day, exploring their ideas on Mother Earth.

The artists explore the connection between the female experience and nature, using a range of processes and techniques with some sublime and thought-provoking results.

Private view is this evening (6th March) at 18:30-20:30. Exhibition runs until 13th March. Free tickets can be found via the link in bio

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03/03/2024

Our recent favourites of people who have used in their posts. Remember to tag your work when you post it and we will pick our favourites to share!

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22/02/2024

A massive thank you to for sharing his project 'Felicific Calculus' with us over the last 10 days. A reminder that our interview with Eric is live on our website if you'd like to find out more about his thinking and process. Link in our bio.

A big thank you also to for sponsoring Issue 13 and its season of content!

09/02/2024

Edward Burtynsky at Saatchi Gallery, 14th Feb- 6th May. Opening night Thursday 15th Feb, 6:30-9pm. Tickets available via the Saatchi Gallery website.


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31/01/2024

Deadfall by Max Ferguson ( )
Book launch and exhibition at 7th Feb
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Deadfall is the second book from Max Ferguson and his imprint Oval Press. It is a photographic novel that weaves together literature and photography, inviting the reader to free-fall through the life, dreams, and memories of its faulted protagonist. We follow him back to a small village in rural France, apparently devoid of life, where he struggles to write, smokes too much w**d, and comes to terms with his isolation and insomnia. What is he running from and why did he turn up in the small village in the middle of nowhere unannounced? Deadfall continues Ferguson’s experimental approach to making
pictures, writing text and publishing books. The line between truth, fiction, memoir, fantasy is not always clear.

‘He smoked two for every one of mine, although I tried to keep up, and he must have been fifty years older. Today he asks me slowly if I’m leaving again soon. I say nothing and light a cigarette. Can I finish smoking this without answering? It’s not an easy question I say, which is met with more silence. We both know I’m avoiding the reason I arrived unannounced in the night
so long ago.’ – Deadfall

-'Deadfall' by Max Ferguson, published by Oval Press ( ) is available via the link in both parties' bios, as is the RSVP link for the book launch on the 7th Feb.

All images © Max Ferguson

26/01/2024

A showcase of some of the winners from Portrait of Britain 2023
Portrait of Britain is the annual competition run by that seeks to find photographers capturing what it means to live in 21st century Britain. A celebration of the country’s diversity, the winning images come as a welcome relief from the sense of gloom that so often seems to dominate our society currently. The breadth of people represented in the images serve to remind us that at our core we are all similar, however different we may seem on the surface.
The 100 winning images are currently on display on digital advertisement boards around the UK.

1: 'Abraham'
2: 'End of the Line'
3: 'Making it Work'
4: 'Yeaterday, and Today, and Forever'
5: 'Shani'
6: .valla 'Lauren'
7: 'Jack of the Green'
8: 'The Waltzer Ticket Booth'
9: 'Fearless'
10: .lammers 'Lilei, DT and Ling'

All Images © of their respective owners

18/12/2023

'South of the River' by Nico Froehlich ( )- Full interview now live. Link in our bio.

Nico Froehlich captures his home turf of South East London in his ongoing, long term project 'South of the River'. Using a mixture of documentary style realism and poetic surrealism, Froehlich celebrates the things he used to try to ignore when he was growing up. As gentrification continues its steady march across the capital, Froehlich shines a light on the working class community of an area in constant flux.

All Images © Nico Froehlich
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A big thank you to for sponsoring Issue 13 and its season of content!

13/12/2023

Seven Hills by Chris H***e ( ) is a portrait of a lesser-seen side of the city of Bristol. Away from the harbourside, Clifton Suspension Bridge and the historic old town, lies a city rarely depicted and yet home to a majority of Bristol’s residents.

‘Go beyond the hills and it is a different story, where housing estates have their public amenities cut and Bristolians watch on as the developers line their pockets. Having grown up on the edge of the city, I have watched the friction between these two worlds, between a prosperous centre and the disregarded fringes. This is a story which is of course not unique to Bristol, like many cities it is divided between the haves and have-nots, between the denizens and the gentrifiers.’

The photographs in the book range from portraits of adolescents captured fleetingly on the city’s fringes, to glimpses of the historic city centre, housing estates and nature encroaching on urban sprawl and vice versa. Each aspect of the city is democratically documented with an equal poetry and eye for detail, creating no separation between the different sides of an increasingly divided city.

-Seven Hills by Chris H***e is available now via

All images © Chris H***e

06/12/2023

'Motherland: Far Beyond the Polar Circle' by Georgs Avetisjans ( ), published by
The book is a visual and investigative journey to understand secrets guarded in the past. Using archives and a Soviet-made medium format camera, the Salut, Georgs Avetisjans is narrating the story of a town, built upon the bones of Soviet prisoners 163 kilometers beyond the polar circle where many deportees once lived. Considered enemies of the USSR, many were taken to the Gulag camps and left to die from cold, starvation, and poverty.

Georgs went to a town far north in Siberia, where his mom was born in 1952 and where his grandma spent 15 years in exile. She was deported in 1941, like tens of thousands of others. He went there on the Trans-Siberian train from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk and boarded a small plane to Igarka. It was his journey through the past on the railroad tracks of exile. 

Tracing these painful accounts, Georgs imagined his grandma and her fearful journey into the unknown. He experienced the seemingly infinite landscapes of Northern Siberia and the Yenisei River surrounding the town by meeting its inhabitants. While often romanticized by ordinary Russians, this vast expanse holds many recollections that he is excavating and bringing to the surface.

All images © Georgs Avetisjans

31/10/2023

This week our artist feature is Serena Dzenis ( ) who will be taking over our Instagram to showcase her project 'Utopia Broadcasting', which we featured in Issue 13. Serena will be giving an insight into the thinking behind the body of work, as well as sharing some of the beautiful yet eerie images that make up the project.
also discussed Utopia Broadcasting with Serena in a full-length interview, which is now live on our website, link in bio!

30/10/2023

This week our artist feature is Serena Dzenis ( ) who will be taking over our Instagram to showcase her project 'Utopia Broadcasting', which we featured in Issue 13.
Serena will be giving an insight into the thinking behind the body of work, as well as sharing some of the beautiful images that make up the project. Be sure to stay tuned for this one!

11/09/2023

Open Doors Gallery are hosting an opening night for London based photographer Max Mietchowski’s book release and solo exhibition ‘Land Loss’.

The show runs from 12th-19th October and an artist talk will take place on October 14th at the gallery with Mietchowski in conversation with Editor and Curator Tim Clark.

‘Land Loss’ delves into the artist’s profound fascination with the British countryside, exploring subjects such as time, resilience, and community. The work is a space for reflection, with the weathering of landscapes and natural rhythms serving as gentle yet abrupt reminders of the inevitable nature of loss and impermanence.

1. Blaise, 2021
2. Forsynthia, 2021
3. Safety Pin, 2021
4. Clifftop Flowers, 2020
5. Land Loss no.23, 2021
6. Shelves, 2021

22/08/2023

Our next artist takeover on Loupe is going to be led by Denise Felkin, cover artist of our 13th issue which explored her body of work ‘Dad’s Not the Word’.

Felkin will be talking on and sharing from ‘Dad’s Not the Word’ alongside ‘Mum’s Not the Word’. The two projects raise questions on the stereotypes and stigma surrounding parenthood and childlessness, exploring the gender differences involved and reasons why adults cannot or actively choose not to have children.

Photographer and writer Maria Giorgia Lenzi interviewed Felkin on her practice, which is now live to read on our website https://loupemag.com/article/dads-not-the-word/.

1 .'Mum's Not the Word'

2 . Felkin showing 'Mum's Not the Word' at Brighton Photo Fringe 2020 at Pheonix Art Space

3 . 'Malcolm' from 'Dad's Not the Word'

04/08/2023

A massive thank you to everyone who sponsored Issue 13 of Loupe! We couldn't have done it without you!

check out the full list here:

https://loupemag.com/sponsor/

22/06/2023

NEW interview now live!

Kelly Bryan spoke to Siddharth Behl about his project 'Men, Machines and Dust', documenting a recycling plant in Northern India.

https://loupemag.com/article/men-machines-and-dust/

Follow Behl's takeover of our instagram this week:

Thanks to MPB for sponsoring our Issue 13 season of content.

21/06/2023

Huge thank you to all our Issue 13 Sponsors!!!

You can check them out here:

https://loupemag.com/sponsor/

01/05/2023

CATALOGUE SEVEN by Millennium Images

"Designed by StudioThomson, his starting point was researching the definition of the word ‘millennium’. His favourite interpretation is ‘a period of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity’,
a euphoric phrase full of hope, and especially uplifting in challenging times. Building on this positive philosophy, Chris Thomson felt the design should express the community that is Millennium, the coming together of passionate artists, sharing the world they live in and their relationships with each other." - Millennium Images

Millennium Images
We Speak Photography

01/05/2023

CATALOGUE SEVEN by Millennium Images !

"The cover design is a compact, sustainable, tactile experience with four different bindings, the print details expertly guided by Park Print. The content includes reference pages, editorial profiles, blank pages for ‘Thoughts’, and QR Codes for external links. Given the small size, the layouts showcase the photography with great impact, and the strong narrative flow emphasises that these artworks are also dynamic, commercially-viable, creative solutions." - Millennium Images

"Our catalogue is printed using 100% offshore wind electricity sourced from UK wind. Our paper is recycled, and our publication is carbon neutral. We have also donated to forest protection in Cujubim, Brazil. This has enabled 2,120kg of CO2 to be offset." - Millennium Images

01/05/2023

CATALOGUE SEVEN

Featuring 298 artists we seek to inspire our clients and celebrate the amazing talent of our contributors." - Millennium Images

Millennium Images presents the launch of their Seventh Catalogue:

"With over 25 years in photography and knowledge, Millennium Images has always been at the forefront of contemporary photography, curating work from established and unlikely photographers to challenge and inspire our client base. This latest catalogue endeavours to showcase images to inspire you. We sell reproduction rights, put on exhibitions, sell prints and undertake portfolio reviews. Working with many organisations we supply images for magazines, advertising and especially book covers throughout the world." - Millennium Images"

22/04/2023

HackelBury is pleased to present Botanical Legacies, a solo exhibition by South African artist Stephen Inggs. Inggs’ work focuses on material objects which become symbols of transience and history.

Inggs’ images of flowers are beautiful but belie more sombre themes around colonialism and migration. Inggs is interested in the ‘archaeology of identity’ and how ’the emblems of cultural history and the circulation of objects’ are given new meanings.

The exhibition is on until 27th May 2023 at HackelBury Fine Art, 4 Launceston Place, London W8 5RL.

26/03/2023

Monday 27th March at the Photobookcafe
for the opening night ! Free entry 6-8pm !
4 Leonard Circus Shoreditch, London

“This Land Is Our Land addresses the UK housing crisis, exploring the co-operative housing model as a sustainable and affordable alternative to private rental accommodation or owning property. The project focusses on Sanford Housing Co-operative in South East London, the UK’s first purpose built housing co-op, and a few of the members who live there.”

This Land is our Land by photographer Ellie Ramsden & journalist Ademalo Bello.

26/03/2023

TPF talks with & Ellie ramsden on Tuesday 28th March. RSVP via photography foundation for free tickets !

This Land is our Land by photographer Ellie Ramsden.

“I’ve been working on this project quietly with good friend and journalist Ademalo Bello for the last 18 months.”

Monday 27th March at the Photobookcafe
for the opening night ! Free entry 6-8pm ! 

4 Leonard Circus Shoreditch, London

Just us for a very special edition of TPF Talks + Exhibition!

22/03/2023

Submissions now open for Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award 2023 PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

A £2500 award to showcase positive solutions to global issues through documentary photography is to be awarded to a womxn photographer. The international prize will be granted through an award founded in honour of renowned photographer Marilyn Stafford who passed away in January 2023 aged 97.

The prize goes towards the completion of a compelling and cohesive documentary photo essay, which addresses an important social, environmental, economic or cultural issue, whether local or global. The Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award is facilitated by FotoDocument and supported by Nikon.

TO SUBMIT:

An application can be submitted online for the first time at https://fotodocument.org/fotoaward/ or a paper application (downloadable from the same web page) is also available and should be sent to [email protected] The deadline for all applications is 5pm on 19th May 2023.

Previous years winners are included below, please click on a an image for more details of the winners and honourable mentions.

15/03/2023

LPA FUTURES 2023 CALL FOR ENTRIES IS NOW OPEN!

Are you an emerging commercial photographer looking to kick start your career? Then don't miss this unique opportunity to win representation by one of the UK's leading photographers agents!



LPA Futures is a biennial competition which supports and promotes the next generation of commercial photographers.

The deadline for entries is midnight Monday 1st May 2023.
Entry is free of charge.
The 3 winners will be announced in September 2023.
Entrants must be 18 or over and based within the UK.

15/03/2023

Our latest Issue 13 'Sustainability' interview is now live!

Holly Houlton spoke to Phillipa Klaiber about her project 'Vorest'

https://loupemag.com/article/vorest/

Phillipa will be taking over our instagram this week so be sure to follow along.

Thanks to MPB for sponsoring the whole season of interviews!

14/03/2023

If you haven't grabbed a copy already Issue 13 is out! Copies are available via our website:

https://loupemag.com/product/issue-13-sustainability/

or retail stockists:

https://loupemag.com/stockists/

Thank you to our great issue 13 sponsors who continue to support indie publishing, if you get a chance please check them out:

https://loupemag.com/sponsor/