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British Journal of Photography
  • BJP-online Loves…

    Our pick of the key stories from this week includes Q&As with photographers Mathilde Vaveau and Karol Palka, Paul Senn's documentation of the Retirada - the mass migration of hundreds of thousands of people from Spain in 1939 - and the programme for the 50th Les Rencontres d’Arles

  • 50 years of Arles: Les Rencontres d’Arles 2019 programme

    The biggest and most respected photo festival returns for its 50th year with 50 exhibitions that celebrate its history and influence, as well as championing cutting-edge photography and emerging talent

  • World Press Photo of the Year nominee Brent Stirton

    “It's about the empowerment of rural African women, as much as it's about conservation," says Brent Stirton, about his nominated image of Petronella Chigumbura, a member of an all-female anti-poaching unit in Zimbabwe

  • Daido Moriyama wins the 2019 Hasselblad Award

    The Japanese photographer wins SEK1,000,000 (approximately £80,700) with his "highly subjective but authentic approach"

  • Obituary: Yannis Behrakis, photojournalist, 1960-2019

    Celebrated photojournalist Yannis Behrakis has died aged 58, after a distinguished career in press photography

  • Yorgos Yatromanolakis’ personal political

    Young Greek photographer Yorgos Yatromanolakis shot to fame last year with The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings, an intensely personal work that also reflects his country's turbulent recent history

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19 March 2019

Those who eat fish from the cyanide lake improve their sex life

Tomas Bachot’s documentary series about a gold mining initiative in Romania took an unexpected turn, evolving into an introspective investigation into the nature of documentary photography itself

19 March 2019

Kyotographie 2019: VIBE

Weronika Gęsicka, Teppei Kaneuji and Ismaïl Bahri are among the headliners of this year's Kyotographie photo festival, which returns to the ancient city of Kyoto for its seventh edition this spring

19 March 2019

Seeing leafy New England askew in Aaron Schuman’s Slant

Inspired by local Police Reports, the curator, photographer and editor uncovered a humorous - but disturbing - fear at the heart of Amherst, in a project now being published by Mack Books

19 March 2019

Hyères Festival returns, 25-29 April

Featuring 10 emerging image-makers shortlisted for a photography prize plus exhibitions by world-famous names such as Craig McDean, the International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Fashion accessories, Hyères returns

18 March 2019

BJP-online Loves…

Our pick of the key stories from this week includes Q&As with photographers Mathilde Vaveau and Karol Palka, Paul Senn's documentation of the Retirada - the mass migration of hundreds of thousands of people from Spain in 1939 - and the programme for the 50th Les Rencontres d’Arles

15 March 2019

Female in Focus: “Willingness for change, and honesty, will move the photography...

Meet Ngadi Smart, the photographer exploring identity, feminism and sexuality through an African lens

14 March 2019

50 years of Arles: Les Rencontres d’Arles 2019 programme

The biggest and most respected photo festival returns for its 50th year with 50 exhibitions that celebrate its history and influence, as well as championing cutting-edge photography and emerging talent

14 March 2019

Arctic: New Frontier

Yuri Kozyrev and Kadir van Lohuizen travelled through 15,000km of the Arctic Circle, investigating the startling effects of climate change on the land and its indigenous communities

13 March 2019

World Press Photo of the Year nominee Brent Stirton

“It's about the empowerment of rural African women, as much as it's about conservation," says Brent Stirton, about his nominated image of Petronella Chigumbura, a member of an all-female anti-poaching unit in Zimbabwe

13 March 2019

Editions

5 March 2019

Issue #7882: Street View

6 February 2019

Issue #7881: Forever/Now

2 January 2019

Issue #7780: Small Town Inertia

5 December 2018

Issue #7879: Cool + Noteworthy

7 November 2018

Issue #7878: Nature

2 October 2018

Issue #7877: Reframing History

Female in Focus: Jess T. Dugan’s empowering portraits of the ageing transgender...

Photographer Jess T. Dugan is building a “roadmap” for the young queer person she once was

12 March 2019

A portrait of the real Brexit Britain

Danyelle Rolla, who won Portrait of Britain 2018, uses photography to empower working-class communities

12 March 2019

Q&A: Karol Palka on shooting the Edifice of Soviet power

Shooting communist-era buildings in his native Poland and beyond, Karol Palka hopes to "tell a story about power and its impermanence"

12 March 2019

Q&A: Mathilde Vaveau on ESSARTER Editions’ Red Utopia trilogy

"We chose the topic of political utopias because we wanted to think about some kind of hope in this world," says photographer and publisher Mathilde Vaveau

12 March 2019

80 years after the Retirada

In 1939, hundreds of thousands of people fled Spain in a mass migration that's become known as the Retirada; Swiss photojournalist Paul Senn photographed their plight

11 March 2019

Daido Moriyama wins the 2019 Hasselblad Award

The Japanese photographer wins SEK1,000,000 (approximately £80,700) with his "highly subjective but authentic approach"

8 March 2019

Joanna Piotrowska on show at Tate Britain

Titled All Our False Devices, the exhibition includes both still photographs and 16mm films to consider gestures, relationships, and power

8 March 2019

Zeen by Scheltens & Abbenes

Having made their names with commissions from well-respected clients such as Cos, Hermès, and Maison Martin Margiela, Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes now have a 20-year retrospective at Amsterdam's Foam

8 March 2019

Female in Focus: An award for women photographers

This International Women’s Day, we are pleased to announce the opening of our new global award, Female in Focus

8 March 2019

BJP-online Loves…

Our pick of the key stories from the past week, including interviews with image-makers such as Yorgos Yatromanolakis, Sara Cwynar, Hiro Tanaka and Patrick Waterhouse, updates on news and exhibitions such as the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, and an appreciation of the photojournalist Yannis Behrakis

8 March 2019

Portrait of Humanity

19 March 2019

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15 January 2019

Portrait of Humanity is coming to Clear Channel screens near...

4 January 2019

Portrait of Humanity: Can photography change the world?

3 January 2019

Meet Leander Varekamp, our Portrait of Humanity People’s...

21 December 2018

Portrait of Humanity: The Anonymous Project is restoring our...

20 December 2018

Portrait of Humanity: The Guardian’s David Levene on...

17 December 2018

Meet Hossein Fardinfard, our Portrait of Humanity People’s...

23 November 2018

Portrait of Humanity: Meet our The Guardian Editors’ Pick...

21 November 2018

Portrait of Humanity: Alessandra Sanguinetti on youth and...

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