Evolution of an Idea:
The April / May Issue

This issue celebrates photographers challenging boundaries, transforming the impossible into visual reality through innovation, emotion and perception.

Ancient Ecosystem

A journey into the last old-growth forests on Vancouver Island’s west coast, trees that form a vast, yet tragically disappearing, web of life.

Altered Landscape

Photo-based artists from around the world are responding to the Anthropocene, a geological era defined by human activity and destruction.

Serene Geometry

Simplicity, detachment and symmetry are among the hallmarks of artist Maria Svarbova’s distinctive style, from the Swimming Pool series and beyond.

Study in Humanity

The portraits of Han Yang are imbued with deep emotion, drawing inspiration from abstraction, fashion, philosophy, posthumanism and surrealism.

Consuelo Kanaga:
A Radical Vision

Catch the Spirit at Brooklyn Museum champions a photographer who used the camera as a tool for empathy, activism and artistic innovation.

Stories That Matter

World Press Photo acknowledges the global photojournalists who invite viewers to step outside the news cycle and look more deeply the world.

Tracing Light and Time

Lisa Oppenheim’s exhibition seamlessly blends light, history and memory, offering an exploration of photographic transformation and perception.

Forecast Festival:
Imagined Futures

Surveying the six bold creative voices at the heart of the two-day festival, whose multidisciplinary works deal with what could be, and what’s yet to come.

Echoes Of The Amazon

Gleeson Paulino is dedicated to highlighting the region’s breathtaking beauty, whilst shedding light on the social and environmental challenges it faces. 

Distinctive Beauty

Stefanie Langenhoven’s dreamlike series explores the stereotypes surrounding red hair and navigates the realities of being a woman in the modern era.

Defining Identity

These five exhibition bring identity to the fore, asking profound and important questions about family, nationality, community and personhood.

Swimming and Society

Design Museum’s playful yet profound exhibition explores humankind’s deep-rooted relationship with water through design, featuring over 200 objects.

Art During Crisis

Here is a Gale Warning brings together artists who warn of political, social and ecological upheaval, whilst also serving as a source of replenishment.

Installation Art at Desert X 2025

The outdoor exhibition returns to California’s Coachella Valley for its fifth edition, bringing awe-inspiring site-specific installations to the landscape.

Shared Identities

Harn Museum of Art presents a photographic exploration of American landscapes through the works of artist like Ansel Adams and Mark Berndt.

Calling for Action

‘American Job’ draws upon more than 40 iconic photographers to explore the history, legacy and continued influence of the US Labour movement.

The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize: Championing Women in Photography

This year’s winners of the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography explore the ways individuals and communities come together.

Art Paris 2025

Art Paris returns for its 27th edition this April, welcoming galleries from around the world and celebrating the very best of contemporary art.

Navigating Relationships

A new documentary explores the complex and nuanced relationship between photographer Joel Meyerowitz and his wife Maggie Barrett.

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.