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Sabine Thoele: Adrift

Self-taught photographer Sabine Thoele observes the pond in her local park.

A Story Behind A Photograph by Hayleigh Longman

Hayleigh Longman shares the touching story behind a portrait

A Young Person Recommends... LIBERTY / DIASPORA

Kadijatou Diallo reviews the exhibition LIBERTY / DIASPORA at Autograph

What is Photopoetry?

An essay by Michael Nott on the roots of photopoetry

Built Worlds: Photography, landscape and different natures

In this essay, artist and senior lecturer Fergus Heron explores the rich relationship between landscape and photography

Sam Laughlin

A portfolio of images by Sam Laughlin entitled A Certain Movement

A Few Words

An exploration of the intersections between poetry and photography by writer and artist Steven J Fowler

Notes on Laura Letinsky and Lightness

This essay was commissioned and published during the exhibition Laura Letinsky: Ill Form and Void Full, held at The Photographers' Gallery between 18 Jan – 17 April 2013.

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017

Awarded to: Dana Lixenberg. Nominees: Sophie Calle, Awoiska van der Molen, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs.

The Family and the Land: Sally Mann

7 June – 18 Sep 2010

Altered States of America: Catherine Opie

9 August – 24 September 2000

The Impossible Science of Being: Dialogues Between Anthropology and Photography

20 October 1995 – 13 January 1996

Gordon Parks: Black Americans

21 September – 13 November 1993

The Body Politic: Re-Presentations of Sexuality

4 July - 5 September 1987

The Photographers' Gallery Foundation and the Concerned Photographer

The Photographers’ Gallery first opened its doors on 14 January 1971 presenting The Concerned Photographer, curated by photographer Cornell Capa

Being Seen

CN Lester recounts personal experiences of gender non-conformance, visibility and invisibility, in relatiosnhip to an anonymously authored 1880 photograph

Act Like a Wasteman, That's Not Me

Harris Elliott, visual storyteller, is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, curator, and stylist

To Know the Beast Intimately

Gelare Khoshgozaran considers the figure of the jinn as the temporal embodiment of human desires and emotions in Morehshin Allahyari's work She Who Sees the Unknown: Ya’jooj Ma’jooj

What Remains

Geraldo de Barros concentrated on photography within two periods of time, each resulting in a significant body of work.

Be it in light or shadow: Photography and the Essay

Daniel C. Blight considers photography's interactions with the genre of the essay, asking questions of style, idiolect and the politics of communication

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