Documentary photography portraits

The UK-based photographer and filmmaker shares an exclusive look at her latest documentary, Youth of The Rural North.

We take a look at ten contemporary photographers who capture Russia in all of its beauty and complexity, from its vast landscapes to forgotten people.

‘In photography, I have found a language that suits me,’ Martine Franck once said. The late documentary and portrait photographer is the subject of a retrospective at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bress

In 2019, Tim Köck fulfilled his dream of owning a Leica M and bought a used Leica M240. The camera inspired him to take pictures of daily situations of LIFE

In his latest series Olivier Culmann photographs people ‘Watching TV’. The eyes of the viewers seem to be glued to the screen, hypnotized by the flickering images it shows. Their bodies curl up on the couch and begin to collapse. Nothing could be more banal. And nothing more unsettling. Because that is how, in quasi-immobile […]

My series Masc interrogates ideas of contemporary queer masculinity, outside of the heteronormative and hegemonic ideal. Masc as a whole was borne out of my personal experience reconciling my non normative identity - so much of my personal discovery was fuelled by my interactions with my contemporaries, so I sought to explore and record that. The end result is inexplicably bound to the process of medium format analogue photography, that carried the drama, depth and subtlety I felt the…

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Neville has travelled from Scotland to Pittsburgh, Helmand and beyond, documenting humanity with a clarity of purpose defined by social responsibility

5 Tips For The Aspiring Photojournalist || Documentary photography, street photography and photojournalism are closely related disciplines that share at least a few theoretical, practical and aesthetic ideologies, but what sets photojournalism apart is pretty simple — newsworthiness. Newsworthiness, in turn, embodies these three main elements: timeliness, objectivity, and narrative. The goal of photojournalistic work is to capture…