Details Up Close

Unnoticed moments are the subjects of Lotte Ekkel’s images, from single leaves to moonlit raindrops and eerie, lonesome tree branches.

The Self Reflected

Charting the role of mirrors in the history of art, from Renaissance paintings to the latest in photography and immersive installations.

Echoes Preserved

Brendan George Ko’s portraits of friends, often bathed in light and shadow, meet high-quality, crisp close-up shots of foliage to set the scene.

Society Transforms

Right now, Cao Fei is one of the biggest names in the art world. She is making multimedia work about technology and urban change in China.

Distilled Atmosphere

Colour dances across onoko’s pages, forming complex, textured, impressionistic images that bleed into the paper like watercolour paintings.

Sense of Detachment

Out in the landscape, Bootsy Holler harnesses the self-portraiture genre as a way to visualise and work through difficult, personal emotions.

Boundless Imagination

A new architecture book shows what happens when we combine the human imagination with powerful digital tools to realise escapist ideas.

Uplifting Narratives

Fares Micue returns to Aesthetica with positivity and optimism, sharing a joyful outlook on life through a meticulous image-making process.

Analogue Experiment

How do natural and artificial lights manipulate photo-sensitive media? Marta Djourina traces movements, gestures and objects onto paper.

Genres Intertwine

A major exhibition at Tate Modern recounts how – in 1973 – Anthony McCall shook up the art world by stripping cinema back to its fundamentals.

Portraits Interrupted

Faces are obstructed and obscured by three dimensional shapes in Natalia Klimza’s body
of work, which plays with colours and forms.

Into the Sunlight

French visual artist Maia Flore has cultivated a reputation from constructing dreamworlds where figures fly, balance and bend – bringing magic to life.

Path to Knowledge

Laure Winants, an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, studies Arctic sea ice – presenting thousands of years’ history in a single frame.

Calling for Action

Artists, scientists and activists champion the iconic Joshua tree in a rallying cry for much wider environmental and cultural awareness.

Questions of Reality

Giuseppe Lo Schiavo makes simulated views driven by the psychology that’s behind how
we interpret what is, or isn’t, a real landscape.

Emotive Landscapes

Svante Gullichsen positions himself amidst the vast forces of nature, reflecting on selfcare and acceptance through his portraits.

Building Responsibly

Shigeru Ban, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, speaks about his new book, charting a notable career marked by innovation and compassion.

Nature Distorted

French-American photographer Karine Laval visits gardens across Europe and the USA to produce hallucinatory views of their green plants and trees.

Magic in Wilderness

Photographer Ellie Davies presents a new book that revels in feelings of mystery provided by forests. She uses the lens to address climate issues in the UK and beyond.

Outdoor Performance

Margeaux Walter’s fun, humorous self-portraits bring joy whilst responding to, and reflecting on, complex ways humans interact with landscapes.