The 2019 Sony World Photography Awards Open and Youth shortlists have been announced, comprising works across ten diverse categories.

South Korean artist Kimsooja’s To Breathe uses light and mirrors to explore meditative and transformative experiences of space.

Immersive installation, visionary architecture and artists’ postcards come together in February 2019’s compilation of must-read publications.

Covering themes from technology and urbanisation to population growth and climate change, the Aesthetica Art Prize 2019 shortlist is announced.

The Aesthetica Future Now Symposium 2019 welcomes speakers to discuss the responsibility of design for shaping more sustainable societies.

Daniel Forero’s Reflections series was inspired by wanting to bring the beauty of the outside world into the photography studio.

February begins with a selection of inspiring photography and video exhibitions. Each responds to changing ideas of place and time.

Issue 87, Idea Generation, takes stock of what’s to come in the future of art, design, architecture and photography. Find out more about the issue.

Through changing environments, Bethany Murray’s photographic compositions explore the female body and its larger place in constructing identity.

Perfect Darkness is a series by Henri Prestes, shot in secluded and isolated villages, highlighting moments of melancholy.

Eamonn Doyle has quickly moved from DJ to street photographer, documenting Dublin’s inhabitants through an anonymous, isolated lens.

Bauhaus is celebrated this year; at its centenary, the school continues to assert its legacy with classic aesthetics and collaborative sensibilities.

Lagos-based fashion brand Orange Culture is redefining the role of gender in clothing, with colourful, timeless pieces that defy categorisation.

William Bunce is a still-life photographer and director working across editorial and advertising and experiments with narrative and visual cohesion.

New York-based May Parlar is a photography and video artist creating visual narratives that centre around the notion of belonging and identity.

Matias Alonso Revelli’s works are awash with blues and oranges whilst experimenting with pixellation, moving the viewer into hallucinatory states.

Architizer calls upon the general public to define what makes a successful building – collaborations, ecological consideration and social appeal.

How can art make sense of the digital age? BALTIC investigates new possibilities offered by technology in relation to citizenship and activism.

François Aubret’s practice revolves around a series of clean, colourful works that document the hidden geometries of urban civilisation

Winter is a photographic series by German artist Uwe Langmann that depicts sweeping topographies blanketed by clean, white expanses of snow.