Hiroshi Sugimoto Explores
Photography’s Enduring Afterlife

Extinction features 60 images from the artist’s early days in the late 1970s right up to now, surveying his depictions of theatres, seascapes and dioramas.

Impressions Gallery Confronts
the True Impact of Fast Fashion

Costing the Earth presents the work of Mandy Barker, Alice Fox, Hannah Lamb and Atiyya Mirza, who make work that responds to the climate crisis.

Nhu Xuan Hua Navigates
Fotomuseum Winterthur’s Archive

One Another explores memory as a shifting process, showing how photography can preserve, distort and reconstruct both personal and cultural histories.

Reflecting on 200
Years of Photography

A new publication offers a panoramic celebration of photography, featuring landmark images, inventions, innovations, exhibitions and influential practitioners.

Sayuri Ichida’s Prints Consider
Sisterhood, Shared Memory and Loss

The Photographers’ Gallery, London, presents a contemplative and moving exhibition by a gifted printmaker, who reflects on the ties that bind us.

Reframing Black American
Life through the Magazine

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

Brassaï’s Photographs Reveal
the Secrets of 20th Century Paris

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

The Changing Landscape
of the Contemporary World

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

Emmanuelle Moureaux:
the Architecture of Attention

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

Darren Almond Captures the
World Under the Light of the Moon

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

Daniel Maliykar’s
Portrait of Afghanistan

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

Thomas Billhardt Documents
a Modern World in Constant Motion

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

Sense of Narrative

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.

Surreal Everyday

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

Living in Nature

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

States of Becoming

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

Vibrant Botanicals

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

Launching Aesthetica’s
August/September 2026 Edition

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.

Emotive Atmosphere

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

Staged Constructs

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.