The National Portrait Gallery reveals the shortlist of the prize, which showcases the work of talented artists working in contemporary photography.

A major new show in Australia encompasses more than 150 of Brassaï’s “greatest achievements,” including atmospheric images of the city after dark.

New immersive exhibition SENTIENTS invites visitors to surrender their human perspective and see the world through the eyes of other living beings.

Bold and Brilliant reveals how Black photography magazines reshaped a visual culture, making visible what was often excluded from mainstream media.

Doug Aitken transforms various mediums into an immersive digital environments that considers the intersection of identity, technology and landscape.

Technologies of Peace brings together researchers, artists, curators and renowned thinkers to examine one of the defining challenges of our time: peace.

We spoke to this year’s winner about what it means to be recognised by the Prize, how the film was made and what’s next in his multidisciplinary career.

teamLab transforms their Tokyo museum into an environment where digital art and architecture redefines viewer experience and perception.

The celebrated artist transforms colour into an architectural medium, turning a busy Hong Kong thoroughfare into an immersive experience.

This show takes a breathtaking nocturnal journey around the globe, capturing trees, mountains, glaciers and oceans in dreamlike long exposures.

The first retrospective of the architect in two decades brings together over 250 objects to tell a story rooted in landscape, climate and community.

This major new project is made up of 150 unseen documentary photographs of Afghanistan, created during a period of access that no longer exists.

British artist Es Devlin’s first retrospective in Europe celebrates her 30-year creative practice across sculpture, stage design, music, language and light.

“Art can’t just be a formal exercise; it has to come from lived experience. Creation has to be grounded in something real.” A profile of curator Ziyan Xu.

From Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, to dispatches from Vietnam and Cuba, Thomas Billhardt’s images capture a 20th century world in perpetual motion.

Yannis Davy Guibinga is passionate about telling stories rooted in Africa and its diaspora. He uses bright hues and striking imagery to do just that.

Bobby Beasley is a self-taught photographer shaking up documentary style through the use of unexpected camera angles, intense saturation and bright lighting.

Across coasts and forests, architects redefine the myth of the Canadian cabin through site-specific blueprints and more sustainable material choices.

The Aesthetica Art Prize celebrates 20 years with a bold show of visionary practitioners working in film, photography, painting, sculpture and much more.

Hyperreal plant pictures by Tom Leighton ask audiences to step onto another planet, which has been consumed by luminous, verdant undergrowth.

A peek inside the most recent edition of our printed magazine. Discover artists who reflect the world around us, whilst offering new ways to understand it.

Vijay Sarathy’s evocative pieces respond to the artist’s life in the Himalayas and his own deeply personal relationship with its diverse landscape.

Jada and David are a creative duo who specialise in set design, creating M.C. Escher-esque spaces filled with explosive colours and optical illusion.

Laurence Philomène speaks about their approach to self-portraiture as part of Gen Z, a presentation supporting the next generation of lens-based art.

The Baltic Sea is suffering from unprecedented oxygen loss. Małgorzata Stankiewicz visualises this phenomenon through striking cyanotypes.

Goodwood Art Foundation has unveiled the first outdoor installation to be shown in Europe by the renowned Brazilian practitioner Hélio Oiticica.

The opening exhibition at BRUSK, Refik Anadol’s Latent City transforms data into an immersive experience, exploring memory, data and AI.

Larry Achiampong will present his the latest film in his iconic series Relic 4 as part of a bold exhibition at KARST gallery in Plymouth, opening this October.

Edinburgh Art Festival 2026 presents a city-wide programme exploring photographic archives as living spaces of memory, identity and endless possibility.

A three-day event marks Somerset House Studios’ tenth anniversary, with a programme exploring the intersection of performance, AI and digital culture.

Rooted in photography and expanded through video, family snapshots, and installation, Cadet explores Black diasporic life through her lived experience.

Stardust brings together a century of portraits to examine how photography constructs public identity, placing women at the centre of the narrative.

This publication from gestalten explores why our reflex toward simplicity emerges most strongly precisely when the world falls out of balance.

Jing Hsu combines digital technology with traditional sculptural techniques to create works that examine how we understand shared history.

These five exhibitions cast familiar photographs, locations and buildings in new light, asking audiences what happens when we change our perspective.

Tell Me Where Home Is gives a complex and nuanced portrait of migration, belonging and home in today’s increasingly unsettled sociopolitical climate.

The first major institutional Baldessari survey in South Florida brings together nearly 40 works
spanning five decades of an impressive career.

Over 180 contemporary photographers, from Orkney to Dumfries and Galloway and beyond, have been shortlisted for the Scottish Portrait Awards.

An insightful new exhibition spotlights the work of Gordon Parks from the fascinating perspective of the family and friends of those he photographed.

Photographer Carole Lampe asks whether we can tell the difference between what has been produced by an artist, and what has been made by AI.

This month, Aesthetica opened the 20th edition of the Aesthetica Art Prize with a bold exhibition at York Art Gallery, which will run until November.

To Be Seen at Royal Scottish Academy explores how museum can shape collective memory and challenge traditional narratives of power and identity.

Hauser & Wirth opens Palo Alto gallery with Calder | O’Keeffe, an exhibition exploring the artistic dialogue between two icons of American modernism.

With images spanning a period of more than 80 years Dark Tales explores the relationship between the Gothic and British documentary photography.

Set within the atmospheric landscapes of Gunton Park in Norfolk, Anya Gallaccio’s latest exhibition examines decay, ecology and the passage of time.

These five artists, featured in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2026, explore the possibilities of material, process and form to produce striking photographs.

This September, POST, Brighton’s new photography centre, will celebrate the contributions of women in documentary photography from around the world.

A bold new exhibition at Hastings Contemporary explores the fundamental connection between land and sea, and the vital role both play in sustaining life.

Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography, brings together more than 100 landmark works by some of the 20th century’s most influential artists.

Houghton Festival’s 2026 visual arts programme transforms a historic landscape into a platform for exploring ecology & collective experience.