Cultural Examination

Alia Ali’s photographs use cloth and fabric to hide identities, asking questions about how we define and separate what we can or can’t see.

A Pioneer of Performance

The largest ever retrospective of Ulay opens in Amsterdam, highlighting trailblazing Polaroids and a 12-year collaboration with Marina Abramović.

Art Recreating the Weather

These artists and photographers reflect on our relationship with the elements, bringing clouds down to earth and filling rooms with mist and fog.

A Lens on Sustainability

Are cities sustainable? Are we losing accountability for our actions to the planet? Prix Pictet launches a new podcast focused on the climate.

Personal Ecologies

Vanja Bučan explores humanity’s juxtaposing relationship with nature – between ambivalence, control and, paradoxically, romanticisation.

A Sense of Escapism

Hollie Fernando creates dreamlike, youthful images inspired by classical painting. The result is a bright fantasy world without limits.

ING Discerning Eye:
Celebrating Creativity

In an unprecedented year, the ING Discerning Eye exhibition offers a presentation like never before, showcasing over 1,000 pieces by 600 creatives.

Material Studies

Vilma Pimenoff’s series brings Vanitas compositions into the Anthropocene age, drawing upon our production and use of plastic.

5 Online Photography Shows

Discover photography from home with five recommended online shows. Log on to browse bold new portraits and meditative landscapes.

Retraced Footsteps

Between 2011 and 2014, photographer Mark Ruwedel travelled across Los Angeles on a carefully planned route, spanning 72.5 miles.

Deutsche Börse: Global Perspectives

The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize shortlist for 2021 is wide-reaching, tapping into a world shaped by disruption and change.

Signs in the Sky

Soren Solkær’s ‘Black Sun’ series tracks the migratory flight paths of starlings across Europe to capture their murmurations in the sky.

Aesthetica Archives: Landscapes

Drawn from the Aesthetica Archives, these artists and photographers take varied approaches to wild places – from aerial views to digitised vistas.

Nocturnal Ambiance

The Sony World Photography Awards are open for entries. Ioanna Sakellaraki, was announced as Student Photographer of the Year in 2020.

Into the Garden

The work of Erik Madigan Heck occupies a space between photography and painting, exploring personal stories through bold aesthetics.

Suggestive Introspection

Kristoffer Axén’s practice is centred around surrealism and solitude, examining imagined existences both literally and figuratively.

Through the Window

For many Magnum photographers, windows play with a sense of freedom and the boundary lines between public and private; outside and inside.

Neon Topographies

Maria Lax is a London-based photographer from a small town in Northern Finland. She is known for seamlessly blending reality and fantasy.

Subverting Expectations

Photographer Sunil Gupta tackles some of the important themes of our time, including racial equality, body politics and LGBTQ+ rights.

Aesthetica Archives:
Picturing the Moon

This week, NASA announced the discovery of water on the moon. Delve into the Aesthetica archives to highlight artists inspired by lunar imagery.