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

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

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

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

For 20 years, Wes Anderson has established an immediately recognisable style. A new book of photographs is inspired by his imaginary worlds.

Minh T.’s images are a reflection of serenity and hybridity, as well as isolation and loneliness in a network of concrete as it merges with the sky.

Chris Zhongtian Yuan is the recipient of Aesthetica’s Emerging Art Prize. In conversation, he explores the winning film with Manijeh Verghese.

Tate Liverpool, closing 5 November, hosts a major retrospective of Don McCullin’s work – presenting more than 250 photographs that hold the gaze.

Photo Vogue describes itself as “the first conscious fashion photography festival” – highlighting bold creative voices from across the globe.

Douglas Mandry has completed a new, dreamlike collaboration with luxury skincare house La Prairie, highlighting Switzerland’s natural vistas.

Marcus Møller Bitsch’s most recent series asks questions about the nature of memories: their veracity and our interactions with them,

Bleur is an online gallery designed to champion emerging voices – inspiring digital audiences by bringing personal stories front and centre.

Luca Locatelli’s Future Studies project, winner of the 2020 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, visualises new ways for our survival on the planet.

Belgian photographer Sébastien Cuvelier’s book retraces a journey to Iran taken nearly 50 years ago, exploring contrasts in a changed landscape.

Thomas Jorion is a self-taught photographer interested in abandoned places. His new book captures grand, forgotten buildings in Italy.

Mat Collishaw has become a master of lens-based media, making reference to scientific and natural worlds through striking photography and video.

Carl Bigmore’s new photobook, Between Two Mysteries, captures the dreamy atmosphere of America’s Pacific Northwest.

For three years, British photographer Joshua K. Jackson walked through the lamp-lit and neon-filled streets of London’s Soho at night.

Antwaun Sargent’s new project, ‘Just Pictures’, is vibrant, fresh and full of life – a celebration of self-expression and a place where identity is fluid.

“I am interested in that strange magic that occurs when things come together.” Harry Gruyaert’s painterly images of Ireland burst with colour.

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is home to a plant collection comprising over 13,500 species. Artists respond with powerful botanical works.

The International Awards for Art Criticism are open for entries. Recent winner Nadim Samman reflects on contemporary art writing today.

Susan van Wyk, Senior Curator of Photography at NGV Australia explores the 2020 Triennial, including themes of isolation, representation and cataclysm.

Building on the success of its A+Awards programme, the Architizer A+Firm Awards celebrates its inaugural edition.

IWM London explores a century of refugee experiences. It looks at the devastating impact of conflict, putting human stories at the centre.

Photo London Digital is the first international photography fair to take place online. Aesthetica selects must-see emerging galleries for 2020.

Can a photograph be an abstraction? This is the question Barbara Kasten has been asking for over 40 years. The artist moves into video and sculpture.

Michael McCluskey’s cinematic photobook is full of compelling images taken under nightfall. It leaves viewers to plot the beginning, middle and end.

“The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.” Stefano Giacomello renders landscapes that offer a sense of freedom and visual serenity.

The 2020 edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is a hybrid model with both physical and
digital components, welcoming 35 exhibitors.

Evgenia Arbugaeva’s documentary photographs record remote landscapes and communities of the Russian Arctic through magical realism.

We are living in a precarious moment where the very idea of democracy is being threatened. Issue 97, Rebirth and Renewal, looks to a better future.

Julie Blackmon’s works are intricately composed, with busy details and hectic scenarios. In these images, accidents are just a stone’s throw away.

Brad Walls provides an alternative perspective of swimming pools, using drone technology and aerial footage to capture the shapes and colours.

Phaidon’s Editor-in-Chief Spencer Bailey asks questions about the art of the memorial in an age defined by division, disconnect and isolation.

Ulrich Hartmann is a fashion photographer who’s pushing boundaries with an Alice in Wonderland– esque imagination and avid attention to detail.

George Byrne transforms cities through reduction and collage, rendering Californian streets with geometric minimalism and pastel palettes.

Pia Kintrup’s horror vacui series speaks to the fear of empty space. Plastic bags and packaging are paired with onion skins and pistachio shells.

Mary & Davit Jilavyan spent the last few months of lockdown developing an imaginary village
in Mexico filled with rainbow-coloured houses.

Jackie Black reproduces last meals of those who have been subjected to capital punishment. The photographer draws attention to social injustice.

In the context of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Maïmouna Guerresi addresses the importance of humans connecting with the organic world.

Zhong Lin is a Malaysian Chinese photographer whose works are categorised by strong, seductive visuals that redefine the very notion of style.

As a lover of architecture, Salva López’s images build on abstraction, forms and lines, and looking for what he defines as “global visual harmony.”

Explore work by artists from the Aesthetica Archives who engage with flowers and plants, reflecting on themes of memory and renewal.

Ekow Eshun curates documentary and portrait photography from Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia for King’s Cross Tunnel.

Discover photography exhibitions – both physical and online – to explore this October, featuring powerful portraiture and documentary images.

Patrick Clelland is a Sydney-based photographer whose work explores the atmospheres of urban environments constantly in flux.

Nicolas Polli plays with domestic still lifes, imagining a world – like many of us have throughout lockdown – in which objects are characters.

In an increasingly digital landscape, it can be hard to decipher the lines between reality and fiction. Discover artists encouraging us to look twice.

This month’s round-up of new releases spans street photography, futuristic architecture and surf culture, offering visual inspiration and global perspectives.