Unbound Agency

London’s Fashion and Textile Museum celebrates both old and new styles with a retrospective of Louise Dahl-Wolfe.

Temporal Visualisation

Delivering Flowers to Grandpa Jack, reflects upon Kovi Konowiecki’s home town, documenting people and places that create a sense of belonging.

Cultural Translation

Michelle Maguire and Kelsey McClellan translate the act of dining and fast-food iconography of Americana into innovative and visually satisfying compositions.

Material Playgrounds

Metz + Racine specialise in still life photography and moving image. Fashion, interior design and fine art come together in an expansive mix of kinetic energy.

Collective Landscape

A new book from Phaidon highlights contemporary structural theory through celebrated buildings that make use of space as a social connective.

5 to See: This Weekend

30 September – 1 October. These unique shows utilise the constraints of two and three-dimensional forms in order to recreate sensory experiences.

Developing Synergies

Foam Talent and Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation have decided to create a partnership under the banner of the Foam Talent programme.

Shadow Play

Shadow Lines reflects on Jeanloup Sieff as an artist who challenges the limits of wide-lens & black & white photography to achieve a cinematic aesthetic.

Contemporary Diversity

The second edition of the Biennial of Photography in the Contemporary Arab World focuses on two countries in the Maghrib: Tunisia and Algeria.

Neo-Realistic Landscapes

Fashion and fine art embrace each other in the photography of Jacques Olivar, where the mise-en-scene often subtly references literature and film.

Sculptural Articulations

Viviane Sassen’s celebrated exhibition UMBRA comes to Fotografiska, Stockholm, following its success at the Nederlands Fotomuseum.

Revolving Sustainability

With climate change and the political and economic consequences that follow from environmental disaster increasingly becoming the dominant issue of our age, new solutions are…

Juxtaposed Constructs

Andrea Grützner wins the ING Unseen Talent Award Jury Prize. Her work addresses how architecture acts as a metaphor for orientation or alienation.

Composed Ambience

Axel Hütte’s imagery, taken on various continents, surprises viewers with pictorial structures that place his work beyond the documentary.

Sombre Effects

Bildhalle takes René Groebli’s upcoming 90th birthday as an opportunity to honour the Swiss photographer with a comprehensive solo exhibition.

The Residency: Decoding Culture

Fact Not Fiction Films’ fifth artist, Sam Stopford, demonstrates free-flowing lines. See the work at Herrick Gallery, London, from 26 September.

Tracing Hardship

The Bitter Years – Edward Steichen’s last exhibition as Director of MoMA’s Photography Department – finds a permanent home in Luxembourg.

Next Generation 2017: Geological Territories

Cameron Williamson plays with proximity to allow for an orientation and subsequent image territory to form out of a spatial inquiry.

Seminal Platforms

The Martin Parr Foundation is now set to open to the public this October in a purpose-built space in the Paintworks complex, Bristol.

British Portraits

Hull’s moment in the international spotlight as UK City of Culture 2017 offers a chance to reconsider the city as it is at this instant in time.

Intwined Mementos

Hatje Cantz publishes the first retrospective of the Japanese installation artist, Chiharu Shiota. Everyday objects characterise the artist’s pictorial language.

Next Generation 2017: Human Introspection

Chiara Bellamoli is a fine art and commercial photographer based in London who provides a fine-tuned representation of contemporary culture.

Rhythmic Architecture

Liam Leslie’s imagery captures the MAXXI building as art rather than architecture. Concrete becomes abstract, while earthly becomes ethereal in his prints.

Transparent Design

British lighting brand Tala launches three product ranges at designjunction. Joe Armitage, Design Director, speaks about his relationship with design.

Political Matters

Danny Lyon’s documentation of the civil rights movement, and its countless gatherings, arrests, and funerals, is the focus of C/O Berlin’s autumn show.

Visual Commentaries

Following the success of Photo Vogue festival in 2016, this November sees the only international event devoted solely to fashion and photography.

Artes Mundi: Global Viewpoints

National Museum Cardiff plays host to the eighth instalment of the Artes Mundi prize, due to be awarded in January 2019.

Brutalist Survey

Finding Brutalism at Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, provides an in-depth photographic survey of this influential Post-War architecture.

Material Evidence

Lisa Oppenheim reexamines the history of textile production through the lens of labour and physicality as a combined narrative.

MOMENTA: Disseminating Identities

Le Mois de la Photo à Montreal has renamed itself MOMENTA, a change which signals a refinement of the organisation as it unveils its 15th theme,

Representative Measures

Edmund Clark’s In place of Hate is the product of a residency between Ikon and Europe’s only wholly therapeutic prison environment, HMP Grendon.

Everyday Nuances

Artist Guido Guidi captures subtle changes of light, colour and form; transitory moments are fixed in time by the apt use of photographic apparatus.

The Residency: Bold Fluidity

Fact Not Fiction Films’ fourth artist, David Schroeter, demonstrates free-flowing lines. See the work at Herrick Gallery, London, from 26 September.

Evocative Wanderlust

Beetles+Huxley, London, are hosting the first ever London exhibition of Alec Soth’s Sleeping by the Mississippi, coinciding with a re-print from MACK.

Emotive Interpretations

In her abstract paintings, Ruba Badwan explores deeply-held emotions. We speak to the Abu Dhabi-born artist about her work.

Delicate Perfection

Photographer Claudius Schulze’s imagery of man-made landscapes holds within it a desire for security from the forces of a sublime and powerful nature.

Next Generation 2017: Archival Narratives

Raquel Carrolopez looks towards themes of isolation, individualism and society, blending archival photographs and personal objects.

Social Manoeuvres

Although it’s often forgotten when politically expedient, the story of humankind is a story of migrations. Reflecting a proliferation in these tales over recent years…

Movement as Interaction

Ku.Be is MVRDV’s third completed project in Denmark, a House of Culture in Movement, designed for Frederiksberg as a focal point for the community.

Nordic Encounter

Helsinki Design Week presents design from a number of fields as well as fashion, architecture and urban culture until Sunday 17 September.

5 to See: This Weekend

15-17 September. The selection for this week holds contemporariness at its core; from innovation and design solutions, to new paths of individuality.

Next Generation 2017: Altered Landscapes

Rafaela Fahn Schoffman is a London-based  photographer who re-assesses the memory of landscapes through changed perspectives.

Urban Living

Aperture’s touring exhibition, Tiny: Streetwise Revisited, provides a moving education about one of the more complex sides of American life.

Questions of Identity

Carolina Arantes’ ongoing project, First Generation, has won the 2017 Firecracker Photographic Grant, an initiative to support women photographers.

Talent Exposure

This year’s Expo Chicago coincides with the Chicago Architecture Biennial and marks a new partnership with Palais de Tokyo and Institut Français.

Balancing Materiality

Ellie Davies, Shortlisted Artist from the Aesthetica Art Prize,has been awarded at the 2017 Magnum Photography Awards.

Building Cultural Milieu

Swab Barcelona brings together galleries from around the world to showcase young, emerging talent in contemporary art.

Colour Intervention

For her first institutional solo exhibition in London, Katharina Grosse creates a new work painted in situ at the South London Gallery. From 28 September.

Revolutionary Curation

Frieze Masters returns this October for its sixth edition, featuring highlights from the last 6,000 years of art history through more than 130 dealers.

Surrealist Reflections

Hawk Alfredson is a New York-based artist born in Sweden. He has worked exclusively in oil for 40 years, exhibiting in galleries and museums internationally. We talk to the painter about his life and practice.