Celebrating Functionality

TASCHEN’s new publication, Brick by Brick, is a compilation of contemporary buildings from the past 15 years that hark back to the inexpensive material.

Composing Intimacy

Dennis Hopper re-invented the iconography of the lens to document social upheaval in the Western world and the emerging contemporary condition.

Intermediary Practices

The ING Unseen Talent Programme provides young European photographers with an opportunity for international exposure across new platforms.

Illusory Resonance

Rachel Ara, winner of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016, has been awarded a Near Now Fellowship, which includes a reworking of This Much I’m Worth.

Revolutionary Biographies

Working on History at Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, looks into contemporary Chinese photography to understand cultural ecosystems.

Reformed Histories

Lalla Essaydi’s Still in Progress at Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, draws audiences into a modern-day harem that utilises photography to rewrite narratives.

Supporting Diversity

Dundee Contemporary Arts, MIMA, MOSTYN, Nottingham Contemporary, The Hepworth and Turner Contemporary are shortlisted for Freelands.

Vernacular Metropolis

Michael Wolf’s weighted depictions of globalisation and growth come into question in Life in Cities, another exhibition at the 2017 Rencontres d’Arles.

Visual Landscape

Annina Roescheisen’s What Are You Fishing For? immerses into the union between a young man and woman, exploring intimate contrasts.

Interconnective Locales

Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985 is a groundbreaking exhibition about design dialogues between the two states.

Collective Depths

Ancient futures is the theme of this summer’s Primavera, an annual event at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Connective Topographies

The sixth edition of the Yokohama Triennale, Islands, Constellations and Galapagos, invites thematic connections across a variety of emotional concepts.

Innovative Platforms

The five finalists of the ING Unseen Talent Award 2017 have been announced; an accolade set up to circulate the work of European practitioners.

Investigative Practices

Perpignan plays host to the 29th Visa Pour L’Image, International Festival of Photojournalism, in September, re-instating the essential role of the lens.

Discursive Framework

Athens Photo Festival’s 30th anniversary celebrations include an exploration of critical issues and the ongoing shifts in dialogue with the past. 

AAP: Digital Living

Dr Cadence Kinsey, (University of York), investigates the relationship between art and technology in the next Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition talk.

Cross-Cultural Networks

Longer Ways to Go presents photographs from the the Center for Creative Photography made of, from, on, and in the roads that criss-cross America.

Subverting Homogenity

Nordic Delights discusses the region as a topography in its own right, as well as each country’s different art scenes from the 1990s onwards. 

Hyperreal Psyche

Viviane Sassen’s work frees fashion photography from static precision, focusing instead on a performative, almost theatrical element.

Subjective Environments

André Lichtenberg’s practice explores contemporary landscape photography, combining childhood memories, sensory visualisation and digital collage.