Andreas Mühe is one of Germany’s best-known photographers, recognised for cinematic explorations of sociology, history and politics.

2022’s Sony World Photography Awards Professional shortlist responds to tensions between humanity and nature – occupying a complex space.

The creative industries bring £10.6 billion to the UK economy, contributing to social change and overall wellbeing. What does the future look like?

Swiss-born Cristina Rizzi Guelfi plays on a “widespread obsession” with selfies, replacing faces with 1950s and 1960s archival images.

Derrick Breidenthal is an award-winning American artist based in Kansas City. He uses painting to communicate themes of peace, power, struggle and renewal. The artist is currently participating in the group exhibition Fresh Perspectives at Walker Fine Art, Denver until 12 March and his work has been longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2022.

“Non-places” and “any-space-whatevers” are anonymous locations people pass through. Five artists explore these ideas through photography.

Martin Parr Foundation’s latest photography exhibition considers how people, the environment and its resources are tightly interwoven.

Lydia Panas photographs women and girls amongst lush foliage. Lying surrounded by grass, leaves and branches, they stare back into the lens.

Mexico City-based artist Rodrigo Chapa draws on the legacy of colour theory, producing scenarios which explore its psychological implications.

Craig Easton’s new photobook confronts the media misrepresentation of communities in Blackburn, England, through nuanced black and white portraits.

“I see one function of the museum as being a space for experimentation.” Artist Carsten Höller presents acclaimed installations and relational aesthetics.

Roy DeCarava took up photography in the 1940s as an information-gathering tool to help with his painting. The results were groundbreaking.

February is LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK. From protest photography to untold stories, here’s our pick of key shows and digital resources to explore.

Are there too many images in the world? A new show explores mass media excess and image over-saturation spanning from the 1920s to today.

How do we imagine the future? Designers, visual artists and researchers respond to the experience of living in the anxiety of the present.

Bill Brandt’s photography has often been perceived as “sinister”, capturing dark scenes across turbulent decades of the 20th century.

New Contemporaries continues to play a key role in art from the UK: a story of towering medicine cabinets and potent portraits of identity.

From close-up photography to digital world-building, contemporary artists are always building on the legacies of minimalism and abstraction.

The new print issue of Aesthetica is all about points of view: idea generation and a developing a greater sense of perspective. Read a preview here.

Laura Perrucci and Matteo De Santis demonstrate a fresh take on collage. Bubble wrap and printed words lie over cloudless blue skies.

Ellen Jantzen stretches, cuts and pastes an array of organic samples, drawing attention to the vast editing processes that define 21st century media.

Diasporic legacies, historical figures, baroque designs and contemporary fashion unite in a series of studio portraits by Omar Victor Diop.

Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous and damaging substances. Mandy Barker’s disquieting images demonstrate the extent of the emergency.

Tobias Schnorpfeil is a German engineer and tech founder whose compelling digital renders utilise data sets to build up colour, texture and material.

Zhang Ahuei’s compositions include unexpected elements that are both unsettling and alluring, blending the real and surreal; fashion and fine art.

Thomas Jordan’s Instant Honey series offers a glimpse of the Midwest at sunset. Lilacs blend seamlessly into burnt oranges and inky blues.

Glenn Homann explores the developments of iPhone cameras, producing abstract snapshots that turn Brisbane into a saturated wonderland.

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, probes 40 years of image-making in North America and Canada, alongside the concepts of veracity and narrative.

A new collection of Black photography spans the Atlantic Ocean, highlighting neither protest nor celebration, but intimate documentation.

Each year, The Arts Foundation’s Futures Awards take the temperature of contemporary art and design. The 2022 winner is Libita Sibungu.

Deborah Moss is a New Zealand-based artist interested in expressing an intimate connection with the natural world and its transcendent quality through colour and emotive mark making to convey the sensation of being immersed in a place.

From deserts to suburbia, Brooke DiDonato creates an off-kilter universe. Meanings of familiar objects are twisted; laws of physics unhinged.

Digital artist Andres Reisinger establishes a virtual winter haven – a place of respite and simplicity amidst the clutter of life online.

Białowieża Forest, on the border of Poland and Belarus, is the largest surviving remnant of a vast woodland that once stretched across Europe.

WaterAid collaborates with photographer and activist Poulomi Basu on a series exploring the impact of a lack of water on women and girls.

Electronics have become the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. What becomes of old tech? Jeanette May explores this through still life.

On 11 October 1928, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando was first published. Tilda Swinton curates a photography exhibition in response to the book.

By perforating, cropping, cutting and tearing, Canadian artist Amy Friend offers new visions of seascapes, with spellbinding results.

Jessica Mitchell’s photobook is a part-fictional, part-biographical account of a woman coming to terms with her sexuality and sense of self.

In 1969, a groundbreaking photographic initiative was conceived in the US. Its goal: to assess the state of the nation. What does it look like today?

From children to newlyweds, families to those living alone, photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten takes the temperature of a nation adapting to crisis.

The United Nations cite climate change as the defining crisis of our time. This year, designers and galleries are coming together to find ways to help.

The word “photosynthesis” translates as “a putting together of light.” Roosmarijn Pallandt’s COP26 sound sculpture delves into this phenomenon.

What happens when art and fashion collide? Arthena Maxx Lukmann’s creations rewrite the narrative of unwanted fast fashion garments.

The Light and Space movement continues to offer absorbing and mind-expanding spectacles 50 years after its emergence from California.

British Art Show 9 is travelling across the UK, exploring themes of healing and reparative history through new works by contemporary artists.

2022 is set to be filled with exciting and thought-provoking exhibitions. This is our snapshot of what to look out for over the next six months.

Thomas Witzke is a German painter, photographer and digital artist. He focuses on the narrative aspect of colour; this is perhaps best expressed in the L’art pour L’art series, in which the viewer is invited to explore rooms in museums and artists’ studios.

A new exhibition seeks to display Mary Ellen Mark’s significant contribution to the history of American documentary photography.

Here are six artists from the Aesthetica archives who draw on art history: destroying, reinventing and updating the records for 21st century audiences.