Narratives of Optimism
The ‘Idyllic Space’ exhibition marks Tyler Mitchell’s homecoming to Atlanta, showcasing 30 photographs, a video installation and a new photo-sculptural piece.
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The ‘Idyllic Space’ exhibition marks Tyler Mitchell’s homecoming to Atlanta, showcasing 30 photographs, a video installation and a new photo-sculptural piece.
Sunil Gupta makes his Yorkshire debut at The Art House, Wakefield, revisiting his ‘Lovers’ series from the 1980s with a set of bold new colour portraits.
Here is a selection of international exhibitions from contemporary photographers who use portraiture to explore ideas of representation and visibility.
Australian designer Noa Levy holds a bachelor’s degree in interior design and focuses on creating renders of spaces that resonate with fellow practitioners, clients and those with an interest in design as an art form.
In a surreal series of photo collages, Fion Hung Ching-Yan crafts a world for herself which is visually pleasing, surprising, humorous and deeply critical.
‘Changing States’ is the first major group exhibition to use photography to tackle the transformation of Ireland in the first decades of the 21st century.
Artists from La Gacilly-Baden Photo Festival show us the world through a new lens – from the Russian Arctic to fire-ravaged Butte County, California.
How do natural and artificial lights manipulate photo-sensitive media? Marta Djourina traces movements, gestures and objects onto paper.
A major exhibition at Tate Modern recounts how – in 1973 – Anthony McCall shook up the art world by stripping cinema back to its fundamentals.
Faces are obstructed and obscured by three dimensional shapes in Natalia Klimza’s body
of work, which plays with colours and forms.
French visual artist Maia Flore has cultivated a reputation from constructing dreamworlds where figures fly, balance and bend – bringing magic to life.
Laure Winants, an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, studies Arctic sea ice – presenting thousands of years’ history in a single frame.
This issue celebrates humanity’s creative impulse, exploring the power of interdisciplinary making with Shigeru Ban, Anthony McCall, Maia Flore and more.
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo makes simulated views driven by the psychology that’s behind how
we interpret what is, or isn’t, a real landscape.
Artists, scientists and activists champion the iconic Joshua tree in a rallying cry for much wider environmental and cultural awareness.
French-American photographer Karine Laval visits gardens across Europe and the USA to produce hallucinatory views of their green plants and trees.
Shigeru Ban, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, speaks about his new book, charting a notable career marked by innovation and compassion.
Svante Gullichsen positions himself amidst the vast forces of nature, reflecting on selfcare and acceptance through his portraits.
Sin Wai Kin talks to us about their ‘Essence’ project, which addresses fantasies sold by brands that suggest happiness and fulfilment can be bought.