This month, the most-loved photo series published on Dazed take us from the sun-kissed banks of the Danube to a backwater in the Mojave Desert with Nadia Lee Cohen and Scarlett Carlos Clarke. Whispers Against My Neck is mostly shot during the dog days of a Deep South summer, while Brianna Capozzi’s portraits of formidable women are just pure hot. Water Over Thunder invites us to delve into the fathomless depths of Larry Sultan’s reflections on the art and craft of photography, while Catherine Opie’s To Be Seen invites us to contemplate the privilege of visibility as she reclaims the communities and individuals whose visibility has been suppressed or imperilled. Chanel Victor and Alice Mann both turn their lenses toward nightlife and the fantasy it offers – Victor shoots portraits of Parisian performers; Mann documents prom nights across schools in South Africa. Domino Leaha’s Unfulfilled is a meditation on heartbreak, while Nan Goldin’s Sisters, Saints and Sibyls confronts the rawest sorrow and loss imaginable. 

BRIANNA CAPOZZI, WOMANIZER

Brianna Capozzi’s photographs of women are thrilling. The New Jersey-born photographer has an eye for a very unique species of sensuality and glamour, “with a twist”. In a recent interview, she told Dazed, “I love being sexy and I love making sexy work.” Her new photobook, Womanizer (published by Rizzoli) brings together some of the remarkable portraits, including her memorable Dazed cover of Selena Gomez in oversized Mickey Mouse gloves, her famous portrait of Gwyneth Paltrow looking sultry with a huge spanner and Chloë Sevigny reclining over the kitchen counter and wearing little more than a strategically-positioned lobster.

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LARRY SULTAN, WATER OVER THUNDER: SELECTED WRITINGS

Water Over Thunder (published by MACK) presents the selected writings of the late, great American photographer, Larry Sultan. Uniting images from his most famous photo series (Pictures From Home and The Valley) with his personal writing, the book spans everything from his thoughts on the craft of photography to his reflections on creativity and the guiding principle behind his compulsive need to take pictures, inviting us into the inner workings of his creative impulses and mechanisms with facsimiles of journal entries, lists from notebooks, family photographs, transcripts of class lectures, contact sheets, postcards and other ephemera.

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MARISA CHAFETZ AND MORGANNE BOULDEN, WHISPERS AGAINST MY NECK

Shot mostly in America’s Deep South, Marisa Chafetz and Morganne Boulden’s photo book encapsulates the strange contradictions and chaos of youth – the insularity and safety of growing up alongside the many encroaching perils and dangerous influences. “I think coming of age in today’s world is really scary. There’s a lot of uncertainty and confusion, but we still have each other,”  Boulden told Dazed in a recent interview. Sparking up cigarettes, wrestling in mudpits, tangled in bedsheets or posing with handguns, Whispers Against My Neck straddles the beauty, thrills, risks and listlessness of coming of age.

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CATHERINE OPIE, TO BE SEEN

The beloved photographer’s major new exhibition, To Be Seen at London’s National Portrait Gallery, highlights seminal works from across her career, from her portraits of Los Angeles’ 1990s leather dyke scene to high school American football players. While the scope of her pictures is broad, the thread that connects them is Opie’s mission to challenge who gets to be seen. With her camera, she bears witness to endangered communities, individuals and stories. “They’re constantly trying to take away our right of expression and freedom in different ways,” Opie said in a recent interview with Dazed. “The great thing about being an artist is embracing your own radicality and living your life as honestly as you can with powers that try to suppress you.”

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CHANEL VICTOR

From an admiration of Helmut Newton’s formidable nudes, photographer Chanel Victor learned the lesson: “Be bold.” From Nan Goldin’s pictures of her friends and loved ones, Victor took a certain tenderness. She brings both these qualities to her ongoing series of portraits capturing the charismatic performers of Parisian nightlife. Her work brings together intimate, up-close pictures of cabaret troupes, striptease artists, chanteuses, dancers and entertainers on stage, backstage, at home and on the city streets.

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ALICE MANN, THE NIGHT IS YOUNG

“[Prom night is] this one night where you can show people exactly who you want to be. You can be anybody. They feel like celebrities,” photographer Alice Mann told Dazed for the Culture Clash Spring 2026 Issue of the magazine. Mann’s latest photobook, The Night Is Young (published by IDEA) presents poignant, life-affirming portraits from graduation balls – or “matric dances” – at high schools in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and her birthplace of Cape Town. “It is still a place with a lot of divisions and gaps in terms of wealth, but this was a softer way of exploring that,” she explained. “Students feel like anything is possible on these nights; it’s very beautiful. The general feeling is one of so much hope and joy – they all feel their best and all their families are there to celebrate them. Capturing that energy was something I wanted to do, in terms of exploring South African imagery with more positive associations.”

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DOMINO LEAHA, UNFULFILLED

“I photographed the people that I love the most,” Domino Leaha told Dazed recently, reflecting on her photo series, Unfulfilled. “Some of them I’m still in touch with, others were ex-lovers, and a few of them are old friends that I don’t speak to anymore.” Tracing the trajectories of the artist’s closest friends, lovers and muses across London, Los Angeles, Milan and New York, Unfulfilled creates a constellation of stories, conveyed in intriguing fragments. “These pictures tell the private and personal narratives of loss, heartbreak, and addiction we can all find in ourselves. Stories of longing, vanity, defiance, joy, and surrender are all part of the tragedy and grace of life, in its ever-unfulfillable nature,“ Leaha in the project’s foreword. “All the people in the book are broken,” she says, “and I was broken too.”

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NAN GOLDIN, SISTERS, SAINTS AND SIBYLS

Perhaps her origin story, Nan Goldin’s Sisters, Saints and Sibyls (published by Thames & Hudson) is the artist’s most deeply personal and heartrending photo series. Assembled from hospital reports, family photographs, and Goldin’s own images, it tells the tragic tale of Goldin’s beloved older sister, Barbara, who was institutionalised when she hit puberty and died by suicide at the age of 18. The artist dedicates the work to “all our sisters who have committed suicide or been institutionalised for their rebellion”.

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NADIA LEE COHEN AND SCARLETT CARLOS CLARKE, PODUNK

Shot in a one-horse town in the Mojave Desert, ポダン (Podunk), published by IDEA Books, is the latest project by friends and collaborators Nadia Lee Cohen and Scarlett Carlos Clarke. Carlos Clarke’s portraits of Cohen see her moving mysteriously through the filmic backdrop of front porches, clapboard one-story homes and agricultural land. Composed of stills taken from black and white footage taken on Super 8 film – a departure for Carlos Clarke – the project has a timeless, enigmatic quality, unanchored to any particular time. “The footage from this film felt like one of those incredibly dull but beautiful black-and-white art movies that you’re supposed to show off that you’ve watched,” Cohen told Dazed in a recent interview. “Particularly Onibaba, because of the grass, the landscape, the characters. It’s a Japanese movie about women fighting to survive while men are away at war. There was a parallel matriarchal theme – so that’s the crux of it.”

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GUILLAUME BIHAN AND DARIA SVERTILOVA, OF STREAMS AND LIGHTHOUSES, AND IN BETWEENSHOOT

Last summer, photographers Guillaume Bihan and Daria Svertilova set off in a van with their cameras to follow the Danube through Europe, taking photos along the way of the young people on its banks. Tracing the major river, which flows through ten countries, the pair had no fixed plan or itinerary, other than to go where the river led them and see who they met along the way. They shot what was to become Of Streams and Lighthouses, and In Between in natural light – often at dusk because it was when the teenagers seemed to emerge, and the project captures that thrilling feeling of long summer days and warm nights, albeit in an increasingly politically-fraught region. Now that the expedition is over, Bihan wants to invite local photographers to collaborate and establish a “think tank” focused on understanding the state of Europe through the lens of art. “The continent is in a critical state,” he said, which makes critical the importance of projects that “fight against fascism with the idea of community.”