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  • Pugs, 1991 by Neal Slavin. (detail)

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    The big picture: a pileup of pugs

  • An alligator lurking in low water at the bottom of the pink-tiled swimming pool

    ‘I wanted my photos to reflect my disorientation’: rising star Anastasia Samoylova on how Florida’s hyperreal streets inspired her work

  • A man jumps from a rocky outcrop in the sea, caught mid-stride. The image is framed at the top by a yellow parasol

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    The big picture: sun worship in Sicily with Pia Riverola

    The Spanish photographer’s new book captures the transformative power of sunshine on a beach beloved by Hemingway, Wilde and Goethe
  • Posters for Casablanca, Jaws and Walk the Line.

    Cinema posters through the decades – in pictures

    A century of cinema designs, from silent movies to superhero blockbusters, is celebrated in a new book
  • ‘Malik’s only regular exercise is his daily morning pushup routine, which he does with his feet perched on the bed’ … a shot from Say Less

    Struck by a bullet: life as a New York gang casualty – in pictures

    Practising doctor Greg Gulbransen was drawn to photographing Malik – a member of the Crips who was shot and paralysed – and the gang members who provide his care
  • Mermaid in Italy … Alison and Thee, St Lawrence River

    ‘I never know what I’ll find’: under the influence of Italy – in pictures

    From extraordinary painters to empty chairs, Regina DeLuise’s evocative photobook The Hands of My Friends emphasises her connection to her motherland
  • ‘Lost in music’ … reggae fan Ken

    Sound systems and struggle: community spirit in east London – in pictures

    After getting to know the domino-playing locals in Gillett Square, Roland Ramanan began photographing their world of music, romance and hardship
  • ‘Deeply personal’ … an image from Rotting From Within

    Stopping the rot: facing up to generational trauma – in pictures

    When Abdulhamid Kircher unearthed his father’s history – which involved drugs, incarceration and fleeing from the Hells Angels – he reached for his camera
  • A young girl and a man doing handstands against a wall

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    The big picture: precarious lives and playfulness in a London square

    Roland Ramanan spent more than 10 years documenting the evolution of a new public space in Hackney and its many and varied users
  • The Group for Mutual Improvement 6

    ‘Our own dirtbag Narnia’: hanging out with the trash people – in pictures

    Taken in a vacant lot behind photographer Jordan Baumgarten’s home in Philadelphia, these images capture the joy of a tight neighbourhood community
  • 003 Gladstone Pottery Museum B 0023 JOD

    Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings

    Nearly 80 years after it was conceived, an update to a peerless series of guides to the country’s architecture concludes with a detailed Staffordshire handbook that, typically, isn’t just an exercise in nostalgia
  • Chips with everything … Mrs Clayton and Mrs Collins, Summer, 1974.

    Road to ruins: Peter Mitchell’s crumbling Leeds – in pictures

    Demolished flats, boarded-up cinemas, disused buildings … Mitchell’s photographs of Yorkshire (and beyond) have established him as a key chronicler of a changing Britain
  • Springfield, MA

    Feeling sheepish: Sergio Purtell’s American dream – in pictures

    The photographer escaped Pinochet’s Chile to turn his lens on a country obsessed with freedom, guns and consumerism
  • A woman tries on a wearable monkey toy at a fairground in the US

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    The big picture: an outsider’s eye on suburban Americans at play

    ​Chilean photographer Sergio Purtell captures a girl trying out a toy monkey in his wry 1980s series exploring his adopted home
  • A 1967 Fiat 124 with William Batchelor House, in Coventry, a 1969 Peugeot 504 with Preston Bus Station and a 1977 Rover SD1 at the Sports and Recreation Centre, Coventry.

    Cars paired with buildings of the same vintage – in pictures

    A photographer and an architect demonstrate how bricks and mortar have survived all those Fiats and Rovers
  • New York 1946

    ‘I celebrate the human condition’: Louis Stettner’s real lives – in pictures

    He would take candid snaps on the New York subway while pretending to adjust his camera. Now, a new monograph aims to bring the photographer’s work to a wider audience
  • ‘Amazing and often drunk’ … Funny Sonny packing with Zipco, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1965

    Rebel riders: on the road with a 1960s biker gang – in pictures

    As The Bikeriders hits cinemas, photographer Danny Lyon – whose book about joining the Chicago Outlaws inspired it – talks us through some of his wildest images
  • Commuters, Evening Train, Penn Station, New York, 1958 (detail).

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    The big picture: Louis Stettner on commuters in 1950s New York

    The American photographer’s connection with his countrymen shines through in portraits of people going about their daily lives
  • From the series Rotting from Within, by Abdulhamid Kircher.

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    The big picture: Abdulhamid Kircher reflects on his traumatic family history

    Kircher’s seemingly innocent shot of his father’s girlfriend having her hair dyed in an Istanbul salon belies the truth about the couple’s reason for visiting
  • Children with abandoned / stolen car, Everton, Liverpool 1981<br>Children with abandoned / stolen car. Tommy White Gardens Everton, Liverpool 1981

    ‘Some people refused to leave their flats’: Britain through the Thatcher years – in pictures

    Throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s, Mike Abrahams travelled the country photographing National Front marches, prison life and people’s everyday struggles
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