A Global Perspective
The Sony World Photography Awards showcases a selection of works from finalists, highlighting diverse achievements in contemporary lens-based art.
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The Sony World Photography Awards showcases a selection of works from finalists, highlighting diverse achievements in contemporary lens-based art.
The American modernist artist and advocate, best-known for her signature hanging looped-wire sculptures, is celebrated in a major SFMOMA show.
Indonesian photographer Hardi Budi brings a surreal, playful perspective to the everyday, showing what is possible when the imagination is allowed to run free.
The Photography Show returns this April, placing emerging artists and innovative new galleries in dialogue with renowned names and institutions.
Technology is advancing at breakneck speed. Mori Art Museum offers a compelling glimpse into a near future where digital and physical realities blur.
Whitechapel Gallery presents the pioneering career of artist Donald Rodney, who created works that interrogated race, illness and Black experience.
Lachlan Turczan’s latest work explores light, water, and sound, creating immersive environments that challenge and transform human perception.
Photographer Steve Madden’s abstract images capture commuters on London’s iconic red buses, behind the steamed up windows on rainy days.
Ellen Kooi celebrates the beauty of the Dutch landscape, whilst showing the consequences of humankind’s current treatment of the planet.
Robert Nzaou’s photography showcase Congolese traditions and history, such as food and fashion, reframing them in colourful and playful portraits.
Ed Atkins is known for his computer-generated videos, which draw attention to the disconnect between the digital world and human connection.
Sarah Meyohas is widely known for works that make invisible systems visible. Now, the artist presents an exciting new piece of installation art at Desert X.
Claudio Dell’Osa presents cross-section views of Mediterranean fruits and vegetables: asparagus, chicory, fennel, parsley, peppers and strawberry.
Images by Bevil Templeton-Smith make use of the microscope to document sweeping abstract shapes and colours found in everyday household objects.
Thirza Schaap’s sculptures are constructed with plastic collected on beaches, raising awareness of the urgent pollution crisis through visual juxtapositions.
Carter Baran captures surreal, hazy images that are lit by an eerie glow, making audiences pause and wonder: what’s going to happen next in the story?
This issue celebrates photographers challenging boundaries, transforming the impossible into visual reality through innovation, emotion and perception.
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.
Photo-based artists from around the world are responding to the Anthropocene, a geological era defined by human activity and destruction.