ReviewBiennials & festivals
Mali's reputation for insecurity challenged by the 25th Bamako Encounters
This year's edition of the photography festival showed "there are many Africas", as 85 artists portrayed a multifaceted, self-aware continent
NewsPhotography
Double exposure: new Paris venue to unveil two historic photography collections
Exhibition space will show and sell digital reproductions of images from the archives of the Roger-Viollet agency and France-Soir newspaper
NewsOpenings
Swedish photography hub Fotografiska opens long-awaited New York exhibition space
The franchise’s ambitious global expansion will continue in 2020 with launch of London gallery
NewsCensorship
Censored queer photographs get second chance at Miami's Nada fair
City officials cancelled a planned display by Pacifico Silano in Bal Harbour last year
NewsPhotography
David Goldblatt's photographic legacy lives on through digital archive project
South African collection withdrawn from University of Cape Town over censorship row forms the heart of Goodman Gallery’s new initiative
NewsAwards
Hepworth Wakefield to stage 'long overdue' survey of Hannah Starkey with £100,000 Freelands Award
Show comes "at an exciting moment" as the photographer is reassessing her art in light of recent political events, museum's director says
Podcast
Dora Maar and Jann Haworth: acclaim at last
We take a tour of the Dora Maar show at London's Tate Modern, where the artist is finally getting her due, and talk to US artist Jann Haworth about her retrospective at Pallant House Gallery. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
BlogDiary
Photography show reveals the many artistic faces of John Malkovich
ReviewFairs
Premium vintage prints dominate Paris Photo
The world's largest photography fair aims to champion diversity and young blood, but new works from the medium's biggest names tower over this year's edition
NewsPhotography
Martin Parr and Bernd and Hilla Becher remember a lost Wales
As part of a major photography launch at National Museum Cardiff, Wales' "last world" of industry is movingly resurrected, and the country of today celebrated
ReviewBook Shorts
Hidden daily lives of Hasidic Jews in Jerusalem are captured in marvellous book of photographs
Photographer was given privileged access to document scenes and to make portraits among the people of this conservative group
NewsExhibitions
Photojournalist Shahidul Alam—who served time for his activism—gets retrospective at the Rubin Museum
After spending months in a Bangladeshi jail, the artist continues to speak out against injustice
PreviewFairs
Paris Photo turns its lens on youth in preparation for 2020 New York launch
Photography fair opens this week in French capital with a section focussing on marginalised artists
NewsPhotography
JR launches open call on Instagram for his new free photography course
French artist says he will invite Naomi Campbell to school in Paris to help him teach 12 budding photographers
ReviewBook Shorts
Book of discarded family pictures reminds us of our mortality
Personal collection of anonymous photographs made from Kodachrome slides shows the transience of our lives
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Lempicka’s first US show in nearly six decades to Jacolby Satterwhite’s intimate and immersive environment
InterviewPhotography
The media industry 'has changed beyond all recognition': Magnum's new CEO on adapting to the digital landscape
Caitlin Hughes has also promised to “bring the voices of its members together” as the photo agency targets a "more nimble" approach to client partnerships
ReviewBook Shorts
History of Dubrovnik before, during and after Yugoslav Wars is recorded in photo book
Contrast of city's devastated buildings and monuments and some of their remarkable restorations is heartening
NewsPhotography
Photography exhibition revisits Iceland’s most notorious murders
Jack Latham’s “forensic photography” exhibition coincided with the reopening of a criminal investigation dating to 1974
NewsPhotography
Test shot: Lille’s new photography institute prepares for 2021 launch
The new Institut pour la Photographie is backed by the annual photography festival Rencontres d’Arles
NewsJR
JR on the 'sociological experiment' of street art and his vast New York mural for the Brooklyn Museum
The French artist, who made his name with large-scale public installations, is opening his biggest US exhibition to date
InterviewThomas Struth
Thomas Struth on being taught by Gerhard Richter and how he almost cancelled his Guggenheim Bilbao show
A retrospective of the German photographer opens this week and includes more than 130 works spanning four decades
BlogIn the frame
Quirky snaps reveal whats going on off-camera in passport photos
ReviewPhotography
Diversity drives Unseen Amsterdam as 19 new galleries arrive
New artistic director Marina Paulenka takes the reins of the annual photography festival this year
NewsObituaries
Gianfranco Gorgoni, photographer of Land Art and the New York avant-garde, has died, aged 77
The photographer, first known for his intimate portraits of artists, was later renowned for his monumental images of art in remote places
NewsArt fairs
'It was painful, it was hardship': Marina Abramovic on her ill-fated, epic walk towards Ulay across the Great Wall of China
Three decades after the artists made the journey, in the dying throes of their relationship, PhotoFairs Shanghai is showing the work for the first time in the country
NewsObituaries
Vancouver street photographer Fred Herzog has died, age 88
The German-born Canadian captured a view of the city that has since been lost, but he did not receive major recognition until late in life
NewsObituaries
Robert Frank, the foreigner who framed America in photographs, dies aged 94
Swiss-born photographer, best know for his series The Americans, had a wide and enduring impact on photography
NewsPhotography
Germany plans photography archive to preserve 'visual memory of our society'
Culture minister Monika Grütters enlists international experts to help create a central institution but critics question necessity and feasibility
ReviewBook Shorts
This book of essays explores the varieties and definitions of Islamic art
The authors ask “What is Islamic about ‘Islamic’ art?”
BlogIn the frame
A photographic paean to Billie Jean King at the US Open
ReviewBook Shorts
Old animals remind us of old people in this book of photographs
Isa Leshko’s images plead for the better treatment of animals
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Into the cluttered maze of a packrat photographer
“Jay Myself” captures an artist and collector in his overflowing six-storey home
NewsPhotography
Huge photos of school children to appear on London billboards as part of Steve McQueen’s Tate initiative
The outdoor exhibition across the capital is a forerunner to the filmmaker’s Year Three Project at Tate Britain
NewsInterviews
In the rescued Johnson archive, poignant images from black American history
How four institutions swooped in to acquire four million images
FeatureArtist interview
Turner Prize nominee Helen Cammock on Baroque music and marginalised histories
The UK artist's solo exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery explores the lives of 17th-century Italian female composers
NewsExhibitions
Martin Parr gives a wedding photographer his own big day
Bristol exhibition reveals Ian Weldon's documentary approach to "all the indiscretions, bad dancing and excessive behaviour" of a British wedding
NewsJeff Wall
Jeff Wall returns to his painting roots for new work in White Cube show
As his new exhibition opens in London, the conceptual photographer tells us about the Fauvist-like work and the theory behind it
NewsArt fairs
Paris Photo to launch its second US edition in New York
After cancelling its Los Angeles event in 2016, the French fair is partnering with Aipad to develop Paris Photo New York
PreviewExhibitions
Les Rencontres d'Arles celebrates 50 years with 50 shows
For its landmark edition, the festival is focusing on photographers chronicling a world in turmoil
PreviewExhibitions
Cindy Sherman gets first UK retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery
Exhibition will explore the influence of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and how it all began with a humble family album
ReviewBooks
Agents of faith: the art of votive offerings
Bard Graduate Center's 25th anniversary exhibition considers devotional offerings across religions
BlogThe Buck stopped here
The gadflies and the gifted: Johnny Dewe Matthews and Andrew Logan at Roche Court
Johnny Dewe Mathews on his exhibition of 1970s photographs at New Art Centre
NewsPhotography
Hossein Farmani's homecoming sees two photography centres open in Iran
The Lucie Awards organiser plans to open a museum in the city of Kashan next April
NewsPhotography
Hauser & Wirth to represent Annie Leibovitz worldwide
US photographer and gallery are looking at editioning her works
PreviewExhibitions
Somerset House photography show celebrates the different faces of modern Britain
Work by ten artists aims to highlight the diverse experiences of immigrants to the UK and considers what multiculturalism means today
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Speaking frankly: Robert Frank on his work and life
A documentary originally made in 2004 about the Swiss-American photographer and film-maker finally opens in US theaters 15 years later
News
Alinari, world’s oldest photography agency, faces crisis
As Fratelli Alinari vacates its Italian headquarters, there are hopes that Tuscan government will rescue the historic collection
PreviewExhibitions
At last, Dora Maar emerges from her lover Picasso’s shadow
Major survey of the Surrealist photographer at Centre Pompidou will travel to Tate Modern and the Getty Center
NewsFilms
Victorians in pictures: British Film Institute digitises archive of over 500 early silent films
Conservation experts carefully cleaned the fragile and flammable nitrate film so each frame could be individually scanned
NewsArab Image Foundation
Arab photography archive releases 22,000 historic images online
Arab Image Foundation completes $255,000 digitisation initiative and will reopen its Beirut building this summer
NewsThree to see
Three photography exhibitions to see in London this weekend
As Photo London fair kicks off in the capital, we pick out three other shows and events for photography fans
NewsPrizes
Susan Meiselas wins the 2019 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
The US photographer has been awarded the £30,000 prize for her retrospective at the Jeu de Paume in Paris
NewsNan Goldin
Nan Goldin teams up with Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert for photography show at Versailles
The group exhibition includes works by Martin Parr and Vivianne Sassen
NewsPhotography
After years of copyright limbo, Vivian Maier comes to London
Her heir was not apparent, her life full of mysteries, now a major collection of Vivian Maier’s work is available to British collectors for the first time at Photo London
NewsPhotography
Photo London rescinds partnership with Brunei's Dorchester Collection after protests
The London fair is “undertaking urgent steps” to exit a contract with hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei after the kingdom made gay sex punishable by stoning to death
FeatureFrieze New York 2019
Whose museum is it anyway? The story of El Museo del Barrio has always been about representation
As it turns 50, the museum wrestles with concerns that it has lost its community focus
ReviewBook Shorts
New York’s gardens, parks, flower markets and florists captured in new book
Volume uncovers floral wealth of the US metropolis
NewsAcquisitions
Photography gallery at Victoria and Albert Museum renamed after Elton John following 'significant' donation
The Rocket Man will organise a photography exhibition at the London institution with his husband David Furnish
NewsArt market
Bigger is not always better at New York's Photography Show
Although down a few exhibitors, Aipad's annual photo fair delivers with both large-format and intimately scaled photos
FeaturePhotography
Remembering Tiananmen Square in a new age of censorship
It's been 30 years since the event that saw thousands of protestors clamour for democracy in Beijing
NewsTurkey
Turkish photojournalist Cagdas Erdogan to stand trial on terrorism charges
The Kurdish freelance photographer is accused of creating propaganda for an outlawed separatist group
Podcast
David Bailey in focus, plus Picasso biographer John Richardson remembered
We meet the photographer David Bailey at his London studio to discuss his new book and we talk with Gijs van Hensbergen about John Richardson, who died aged 95 last week. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the "computer cowgirl" Gretchen Bender to Girault de Prangey's haunting snapshots of the past
NewsMuseums & Heritage
National Museum of African American History and Culture to unveil rediscovered Harriet Tubman photo
She is “relaxed and very stylish” in the portrait
NewsCensorship
Exclusive interview: photographer Shahidul Alam speaks out about prison, being tortured and the human rights situation in Bangladesh
Artist was granted bail in November after being held in custody in Dhaka for 102 days
NewsExhibitions
Exhibition at Brooklyn’s Green-wood Cemetery shows a day in the life of immigrants seeking sanctuary
Photographs of people young and old who hope to avoid deportation have been installed along the fence of the historic site
CommentObituaries
Tribute to Marella Agnelli—doyenne of high society
The art collector and museum founder who married into the Agnelli dynasty was a woman of charm and intelligence
Anna Mathias