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Working-class photographers start their UK tour in Coventry

Eddie Otchere, MC GQ, Elvis Meade, Stoke Newington, Hackney, 1995, Courtesy the artist A new travelling exhibition explores what it means to be a working-class photographer documenting the working-class experience in post-Thatcher Britain In summer 1989, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote: “What we are witnessing...

Wed Mar 27, 2024 15:46
Tokyo drift: In the studio with Johny Pitts

All images © Phoebe Somerfield From Sheffield to Peckham via Japan, the artist is tireless in his search for life in all its complexity. His next journey is to the heart of ‘future nostalgia’. We catch up with him at his London studio When Johny Pitts left school, he worked at Debenhams in Sheffield’s Meadowhall shopping...

Mon Mar 25, 2024 08:03
‘Ray’s a Laugh’ continues to court controversy

All images by Richard Billingham, from Ray’s a Laugh, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Mack A new version of Richard Billingham’s pioneering family project raises the same old questions around access, class and sensation For those who are new to the story of Richard Billingham’s rise to fame through the first printing...

Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:13
The NPG’s Sabina Jaskot-Gill: ‘We’re a living, working collection’

Ever Young Studio London Ahead of a new show pairing Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron, we get to know the National Portrait Gallery’s senior curator of photographs Following a three-year remodel and a renewed presentation of its collection, the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) opened its...

Wed Mar 20, 2024 17:53
In Beirut, solar panels and water tanks tell a story of decline

All images © Dia Mrad Dia Mrad’s people-free photographs capture the resourcefulness of the Beirut population How do you photograph a crisis that is engulfing every section of society? That was the question facing Dia Mrad when he returned to Lebanon in 2019, having spent two years in Europe following his master’s...

Mon Mar 18, 2024 20:32
How to make a collaborative photobook on autism

All images © Harley Bainbridge With over 100,000 people awaiting an autism diagnosis in the UK, Harley Bainbridge spent time with one family navigating the highs and lows of the system “I was aware that autism is a spectrum, but I wasn’t aware of how broad a spectrum it is,” says Harley Bainbridge – “not until I got...

Fri Mar 15, 2024 14:48

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