Charting Flexiblility

Ubiquitous, cheap and light, plywood is the focus of an exhibition opening at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, this summer.

Inclusive Engagement

The 2017 edition of the Accessible Art Fair (ACAF) offers a platform for emerging artists and designers to showcase and directly sell their work to audiences.

Composing Intimacy

Dennis Hopper re-invented the iconography of the lens to document social upheaval in the Western world and the emerging contemporary condition.

Intermediary Practices

The ING Unseen Talent Programme provides young European photographers with an opportunity for international exposure across new platforms.

Ancestral Environments

Sylvain Biard’s newest series, entitled SHiMA, was looks at the gap between the photographer and an unreachable culture.

Industrialised Documentation

Designed World is the first museum show of Peter Keetman for 20 years, whose industralised photographic works looked at the poetic rebuilding of Germany.

Revolutionary Biographies

Working on History at Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, looks into contemporary Chinese photography to understand cultural ecosystems.

Reformed Histories

Lalla Essaydi’s Still in Progress at Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, draws audiences into a modern-day harem that utilises photography to rewrite narratives.

Aspirational Gesture

Finnish photographer Janne Lehtinen captures the individual and human aspiration of continuously wanting to push one’s boundaries.

Expansive Movements

Where are we marching? The future of protest is a day of debate running alongside IWM’s radical exhibition, Fighting for Peace.

Vernacular Metropolis

Michael Wolf’s weighted depictions of globalisation and growth come into question in Life in Cities, another exhibition at the 2017 Rencontres d’Arles.

Compassionate Documentation

Neil Libbert has been working as a street photographer for nearly 60 years; Michael Hoppen Gallery offers an opportunity to see the full range of accumulated works. 

Hallucinatory Compositions

Karine Laval: Reflections looks into the hazy, lucid memories of summer, re-appropriating analogue compositions.

Gestural Adolescence

Nelli Palomäki’s photography seeks to find new ways to interpret highly classical monochrome portraiture. Shared explores the complex theme of siblinghood,

Visualised Activism

Since last year’s presidential election, Richard Misrach (b. 1949) has been travelling around California, Arizona and Nevada, documenting occasions when people have done just that.

Collective Depths

Ancient futures is the theme of this summer’s Primavera, an annual event at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Material Remains

Virtually invisible at times and yet all pervasive, dust is the somewhat unlikely focus of a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Interrelating Composition

In Lennette Newell’s Ani-human series, the gap between humans and animals is diminished, along with hierarchies imposed by digital technology.

Innovative Platforms

The five finalists of the ING Unseen Talent Award 2017 have been announced; an accolade set up to circulate the work of European practitioners.

Investigative Practices

Perpignan plays host to the 29th Visa Pour L’Image, International Festival of Photojournalism, in September, re-instating the essential role of the lens.