History Rewritten

C/O Berlin showcases a summary of contemporary African photography, challenging Western perspectives and exploring alternative narratives.

US Photography Shows This Spring

These five US exhibitions on display this spring showcase photographers who use the camera to hold power to account and bring injustices to light.

Design’s Defining Moments

The Museum of Modern Art in New York highlights significant objects, from the 1930s to the present day, that have changed the global design landscape.

Below the Surface

Sainsbury Centre’s Can The Seas Survive Us? asks big questions about the impact of climate change on marine ecosystems and coastal communities.

Multiple Selves

Jana Šantavá’s photography evokes the unsettling feeling of witnessing a doppelgänger, contrasting people’s internal worlds with external environments.

Dreaming in Architecture

At Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Refik Anadol reimagines open-access imagery, sketches and blueprints of Frank Gehry’s projects using AI.

Culture Redefined

National Portrait Gallery showcases more than three decades of images from The Face Magazine, a publication which shaped British youth culture.

Echoes of an Era

Tate Britain’s extensive display collates the defining moments of the 1980s, showcasing photography that reflects the era’s monumental social transformation.

Exhibitions and Events for International Women’s Day 2025

Celebrating brilliant art created by women, whilst acknowledging the ever-pressing challenges that face female-identifying creatives globally today.

Identity Obscured

Polish photographer Paweł Piaskiewicz’s minimalist images tests the boundaries of anonymity and individuality, obscuring the figures in the images.

Art After Dark

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian brings the wonder of the cosmos to central London, encouraging visitors to consider humanity’s relationship to space.

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2025: A Celebration of Global Visionaries 

Cristina De Middel, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Rahim Fortune and Tarrah Krajnak are celebrated by this year’s highly anticipated photography award.

Art, Music, Culture

Dennis Morris photographed musical icons like Bob Marley and The Sex Pistols. Now, a new publication celebrates his contribution to lens-based art.

Dynamic Ecosystems

Nieuwe Instituut unveils a display that shows the evolution of gardens, highlighting their roles as personal sanctuaries and experimental spaces.

Enduring Partnerships

A new exhibition from Michael Landy and Gillian Wearing reflects decades of an exceptionally creative personal and artistic relationship.

On Our Radar: Cultural Institutions Opening this Year

This year, the global cultural landscape will be enriched by the opening of several ground-breaking museums and galleries. Here are our ones-to-watch.

Fractured Landscapes

Photographer Diana Cheren Nygren exposes humanity’s detachment from the natural world and calls for a reconnection with the environment.

Visions of the Future

Art and technology have always been intertwined, and now these five artists are using cutting-edge methods and tools to create pioneering digital works.

Martin Parr: Documenting a Nation

A newly released film by visual artist Lee Shulman reflects upon the pioneering and enduring legacy of documentary photographer Martin Parr.

5 Images from the Sony World Photography Awards

Spaceflight, astronomy, pollution and industrial decline. These are just some of the themes explored by this year’s Sony World Photography Awards.

Community Voices

A new exhibition at Impressions Gallery kicks off Bradford’s year as City of Culture, showcasing photography about the diversity of the UK today.

Living in Technicolour

Cig Harvey’s latest monograph presents lush tableaux of flora and domestic scenes, exploring sensory experiences through vibrant imagery.

Diasporic Experiences

A new exhibition at LACMA presents artists working throughout Africa, Europe and the Americas to expand understandings of the global Black diaspora.

Radiant Creations

London-based artist Marigpa creates stunning paintings in metallic hues of gold, silver and bronze, informed by their travel experiences.

The Power of Resistance

Turner Prize and Oscar-winning artist-filmmaker Steve McQueen is dedicated to acts of protest and the role of photography in documenting change.

Brutalism Reimagined 

London-based photographer Christopher Hope-Fitch takes the city’s Brutalist architecture and illuminates it to create vibrant and unique technicolour images.

On Our Radar: Photography Festivals

This list highlights some key photo festivals taking place this season, offering visual perspectives on the human experience and pressing issues of our times.

Contemporary Craftsmanship

Collect Art Fair is the leading international platform for contemporary craft and design. This year, the event returns to Somerset House with 400 names.

Leigh Bowery: Boundary Defying Art

Leigh Bowery rocked the 1980s art scene with his outlandish costumes and shocking performances, leaving a legacy that continues to shape culture.

Beneath the Surface

Maya Rochat’s show at Photo Elysée immerses viewers in a sensory exploration, juxtaposing nature’s grandeur with human made confines.

Rethinking Tradition

Silvia Rosi’s photography takes inspiration from African stage portraiture, exploring issues of migration, identity and collective memory.

Mona Hatoum: Building Tension

The first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work opens in the Netherlands, examining themes of control, displacement and fragile human existence.

Unfamiliar Territory

Reine Paradis is known for a distinct aesthetic and bold colour palette, and her new series continues to explore these concepts with meticulous detail.

UK Photography Shows to See

This winter, five unmissable photography exhibitions across the UK cast new light on often overlooked and neglected people, communities and histories.

In Full Bloom: Exploring Flora in Contemporary Art

An ambitious and wide-reaching showcase at London’s Saatchi Gallery surveys the enduring influence of flowers across various art disciplines.

Fragile Ecosystems

Marshmallow Laser Feast’s Breathing with the Forest, which is now on display at Compton Verney, recreates part of the Amazon rainforest in-gallery.

Radiant Installation

The Light Festival 2025 at Battersea Power Station brings joy to dark winter nights, fusing art and technology whilst illuminating an iconic location.

Enhanced Topography

Richard Mosse’s new exhibition at MMoCA immerses viewers in haunting landscapes, blending environmental decay with evocative visual poetry.

Weegee: Urban Spectacle

Iconic photographer Weegee documented the spectacle of both gritty crimes and accidents, as well as the clamour around mid-century Hollywood.

Linder: A Major Retrospective

Artist, provocateur, trailblazer. The first London retrospective of acclaimed British artist Linder opens this February at The Hayward Gallery.

Personal Narratives

Felicia Simion’s mysterious photography blurs the line between fantasy and reality, placing anonymous figures into strange and ethereal locations.

Five Art Books for February

Discover five new art and photo books from established figures and new names, each of which tell an important story of life in the modern world.

An Unfinished World

Saul Leiter is one of the most celebrated pioneers of colour photography. This winter, he is the subject of a major retrospective at Foam in Amsterdam.

Beyond Convention

Internationally renowned architectural studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s new book explores the intersection of traditional and non-traditional design.

Eternal Moments

Rinko Kawauchi’s exhibition at Bristol’s Arnolfini captures the beauty in everyday moments, exploring themes of care, identity as well as sustainability.

Global Perspectives 

Rijksmuseum brings the first major exhibition of American photography to the Netherlands, with an expansive show of more than 200 images.

Pictures of Renewal

Brazilian photographer Gleeson Paulino, who is a part of this year’s PhotoVogue Festival, discusses what drives his innovation and creativity forwards.

Study in Geometry

Martin Levêque is deeply influenced by the long history of modernist photography, building crisp, colourful sculptures out of cardboard and metal.

Visual Memory

People and landscapes blend into each another in Stephanie O’Connor’s rich body of work, which examines themes of imagination and belonging.

Science Captured

Greg White cites Berenice Abbott as inspiration for the Base Quantities still life series, visualising everything from electricity to mass and length.