Renewed Viewpoint
A year in the Sonoran Desert is charted through billions of captured data points, illuminating the beauty and fragility of a well-known landscape.
Shaping Elements
Lachlan Turczan, one of this year’s Lumen Prize finalists, experiments with natural phenomena in order to shape multisensory installation artwork.
Latent Memories
Albarrán Cabrera’s photographs traverse luscious, light-drenched forests and lakes, where sunbeams dapple through tree branches and over the water.
Garden Up Close
Marine Lanier’s Le Jardin d’Hannibal series is set in one of Europe’s highest botanical gardens, home to a variety of plants from the largest mountains.
Evoking Paintings
Cristina Spagnolo showcases crisp photographic portraits and nature images inspired by the light, detail and form of art from the 1500s and 1600s.
Silent Interiors
Architecture is Satijn Panyigay’s subject of choice, creating brooding depictions of empty buildings and cinematically-lit homes under construction.
Meet the Aesthetica
Art Prize Shortlist: Sam Metz
Artist Sam Metz creates sculptures that centre neurodivergence and chronic pain, challenging conventional perceptions of contemporary art.
The Power of Photography:
Reflections on the RPS Awards 2025
The winners of the 2025 RPS Awards have been announced. It is the world’s oldest photography prize, celebrating the very best of the medium.
Chiharu Shiota: Threads
of Memory & Migration
A new show traces over 20 years of the Chiharu Shiota’s practice, bringing together drawings, sculptures, photographs and huge installations.
Close Enough: Belonging,
Intimacy & Representation
A new show at C/O Berlin presents the work of 12 women photographers from Magnum Photos, whose work questions what it means to be “close enough.”
Staged, Crafted & Constructed:
Expanded Photography
We bring you five contemporary artists who are experimenting with collage, photomontage and digital composition to expand what an image can be.
Meet the Aesthetica Art Prize
Shortlist: Michelle Blancke
Michelle Blancke meticulously uses the camera as a way to preserve quiet moments of wonder and introspection, creating otherworldly images.
Constructing the Past
Julia Fullerton-Batten constructs images that hover between historical record and myth, where the light, costume and gesture expand the detailed narrative.
Behind the Camera
In the next installation of our MPB: The Next Shot series, filmmaker Xiona Li considers how the equipment we use influences our creative paths
The Timeless Power of the Portrait
This year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize winners have been announced, featuring images that showcase character, history and context.
New Music Stage:
Talent & Discovery
We look back at the inaugural New Music Stage, which spotlighted ten bold emerging artists and audiences all-day access to live performances.
Surrealism in Focus:
Image-makers to Know
These five contemporary artists continue the rich tradition of Surrealism, creating photographs that give the movement a fresh and modern perspective.
Quiet Resistance
A new exhibition at New Art Exchange presents photographs by Heather Agyepong, who explores rest as an act of personal and political resistance.
The Future of Creativity
We look back at the 2025 Aesthetica Film Festival, packed with more than 300 films plus VR, games, podcasts and the inaugural New Music Stage.
Joel Meyerowitz:
Era-Defining Photography
Joel Meyerowitz wins Sony’s 2025 Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize, an award that recognises people who have shaped lens-based art.
Evocative Storytelling
Elina Brotherus creates ambiguous staged portraits, often documenting a solitary figure from behind as they look out at the sweeping Norwegian landscape.
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