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A Global Perspective

The Sony World Photography Awards showcases a selection of works from finalists, highlighting diverse achievements in contemporary lens-based art.

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

The American modernist artist and advocate, best-known for her signature hanging looped-wire sculptures, is celebrated in a major SFMOMA show.

Reimagined Worlds

Indonesian photographer Hardi Budi brings a surreal, playful perspective to the everyday, showing what is possible when the imagination is allowed to run free.

Creative Dialogues

The Photography Show returns this April, placing emerging artists and innovative new galleries in dialogue with renowned names and institutions.

Machine Love: The Fusion of Art, AI and Gaming

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed. Mori Art Museum offers a compelling glimpse into a near future where digital and physical realities blur.

Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker

Whitechapel Gallery presents the pioneering career of artist Donald Rodney, who created works that interrogated race, illness and Black experience.

Sensory Experience

Lachlan Turczan’s latest work explores light, water, and sound, creating immersive environments that challenge and transform human perception.

Moments in Time

Photographer Steve Madden’s abstract images capture commuters on London’s iconic red buses, behind the steamed up windows on rainy days.

Reimagined Landscapes

Ellen Kooi celebrates the beauty of the Dutch landscape, whilst showing the consequences of humankind’s current treatment of the planet.

Reframing Tradition

Robert Nzaou’s photography showcase Congolese traditions and history, such as food and fashion, reframing them in colourful and playful portraits.

Embodying Creativity

Ed Atkins is known for his computer-generated videos, which draw attention to the disconnect between the digital world and human connection.

Images Mirrored

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.

Detailed Perspective

Claudio Dell’Osa presents cross-section views of Mediterranean fruits and vegetables: asparagus, chicory, fennel, parsley, peppers and strawberry.

Worlds Up Close

Images by Bevil Templeton-Smith make use of the microscope to document sweeping abstract shapes and colours found in everyday household objects.

Beneath the Waves

Thirza Schaap’s sculptures are constructed with plastic collected on beaches, raising awareness of the urgent pollution crisis through visual juxtapositions.

Stories Unfolding

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?

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.