As iconic Places+Faces photographs hit Sotheby’s auction house this week, marking the release of their debut photobook, we speak to duo Ciesay and Soulz about the serendipitous moments behind some of their favourite images
Feb 24, 2025
Featured alongside Tracey Emin and Sonia Boyce in a new group show at Ikon Gallery, photographer Pogus Caesar compares his practice to being an ‘amateur detective’
Oct 11, 2024
The acclaimed photographer tells us the stories behind her latest photo book and exhibition, I’m Com’un Home In The Morn’un – an archive ‘recording the culture and emotion’ of underground Northern Soul club nights
Jun 10, 2024
Ashley Markle’s Do you know how beautiful you are? envisions an imagined shared history with her long-lost father
Apr 19, 2023
Adam Rouhana focuses on the ‘quieter moments’ of everyday life for young people living in one of the world’s most unstable regions
Apr 18, 2023
In his rich and evocative images, the Sheffield-born photographer explores ‘how complicated this country is’
Sep 07, 2022
The award-winning Dutch photographer navigates autism, eating disorders, and identity with a series of unflinchingly honest self-portraits, using the camera when other communication fails
Aug 17, 2021
The South-African visual activist’s first major UK exhibition is on show at the Tate Modern
Dec 04, 2020
The photographer recalls the moment he took this image at the Chelsea Reach
Oct 07, 2020
London photographer Eddie OTCHERE captured Aaliyah in 1994 as the young singer was on the verge of fame
Nov 20, 2018
Sonja Hamad’s empowering portraits of Kurdish female freedom fighters show the reality behind the media's sensationalist portrayal of them
Mar 08, 2018
Teresa Engle’s chance encounter with the late artist and his mentor and benefactor Sam Wagstaff in France led to this series of honest, intimate and rarely seen photos – this is the full story behind them
Jan 10, 2018
Taken at a house party in east London in 1981, Ridgers reveals why he prefers to be ignored and how he’s only just starting to like the photographs he’s taken
Oct 03, 2017
Magnum photographer Alec Soth revisits his debut series and tells the full story behind this haunting twin portrait taken in the early 00s
Aug 30, 2017
For two decades, Matthew Smith was at the forefront of UK rave and protest culture. His photos capture a past so few could say they truly knew
Mar 10, 2017