5 To See: This Weekend

25-27 August. This collection reveals the current state of equilibrium between reflection and foresight, demonstrating a dialogue with the past.

Ethereal Realities

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings explores how the artist’s relationship with the South has shaped her highly experimental and haunting work.

Expansive Peripheries

FOAM closes this year’s programme with a retrospective of André Kertész and contribution to the visual language of 20th photography.

Metropolitan Transition

Elliott Erwitt’s negatives from Pittsburgh are collated into a publication for the first time. They capture the spirit of city’s people amidst industrial architecture.

AAP: Last Week

Hosted by Aesthetica Magazine, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world. Submit by 31 August.

Visceral Narratives

Cig Harvey’s photographs create a fantasy version of life experiences. Her latest work transforms ordinary scenes into sublime moments.

Border Identities

Justyna Mielnikiewicz explores borders as ever-changing spheres of influence. She captures life on the European frontier and historical narratives.

Modern Gothic

Carolina Mizrahi’s block palette installations evoke questions about gender and sexuality in a new show at Daniel Raphael Gallery, London.

Cultural Seduction

Now, Today, Tomorrow and Always asks how popular culture, and its compendium of imagery and words, has influenced contemporary art.

Tectonic Change

States of America looks back on a generation of documentary photographers who captured the former decades that shaped Trump’s America.

Pragmatic Design

From clothing that can double as a tent, to improved signage in a refugee camp, Beazley’s designs of the year offer practical, real-life solutions.

Accelerating Visions

Willi Ruge, ­who captured much of the excitement and anxiety spreading across Europe at the time, is honoured in a retrospective at CO Berlin.

Urban Renaissance

100 Great Street Photographs brings together a new generation of talented artists who have embraced modern technology to capture the world around us.

Authentic Form

Photographer Ed van der Elsken sought in reality an aesthetic form, an authenticity that was devoid of artifice. Camera in Love runs until 24 September.

Transient Heritage

Tamas Dezso paints a portrait of Romania. The country is struggling to shed the shackles of its political past, which pervades its rural heritage.

Charting Authenticity

The Photographers’ Gallery’s latest exhibition offers an insight into the polaroids of a previous generation through the cinematic vision of Wim Wenders.

Photographic Resurgence

LE BAL, Paris, displays a range of Magnum Photos’ treasures from books and publications dating from the creation of the co-operation in 1947.

Vivid Histories

Julie Cockburn’s delicate embellishment of photographs is the focus of a new exhibition at London’s Flowers Gallery this September.

Monochromatic Visions

Sanne De Wilde delves into the visions of the people of Pingelap and Pohnpei, two islands where a high percentage of the population have achromatopsia.

Centenary Style

The Grand Palais in Paris celebrates the centenary of the birth of photographer Irving Penn in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York