Pictures Revisited

Are there too many images in the world? A new show explores mass media excess and image over-saturation spanning from the 1920s to today.

A Window on Reality

Bill Brandt’s photography has often been perceived as “sinister”, capturing dark scenes across turbulent decades of the 20th century.

Reflection, Minimalism, Abstraction

From close-up photography to digital world-building, contemporary artists are always building on the legacies of minimalism and abstraction.

Points of View:
The February/March Issue

The new print issue of Aesthetica is all about points of view: idea generation and a developing a greater sense of perspective. Read a preview here.

Images to Decode

Laura Perrucci and Matteo De Santis demonstrate a fresh take on collage. Bubble wrap and printed words lie over cloudless blue skies.

Visual Manipulation

Ellen Jantzen stretches, cuts and pastes an array of organic samples, drawing attention to the vast editing processes that define 21st century media.

History and Allegory

Diasporic legacies, historical figures, baroque designs and contemporary fashion unite in a series of studio portraits by Omar Victor Diop.

Facing up to Pollution

Plastic is one of the world’s most ubiquitous and damaging substances. Mandy Barker’s disquieting images demonstrate the extent of the emergency.

Shades of Twilight

Thomas Jordan’s Instant Honey series offers a glimpse of the Midwest at sunset. Lilacs blend seamlessly into burnt oranges and inky blues.

Style Redefined

Zhang Ahuei’s compositions include unexpected elements that are both unsettling and alluring, blending the real and surreal; fashion and fine art.

Vivid Metropolis

Glenn Homann explores the developments of iPhone cameras, producing abstract snapshots that turn Brisbane into a saturated wonderland.

The Rise of Post-Truth

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, probes 40 years of image-making in North America and Canada, alongside the concepts of veracity and narrative.

A Global Community

A new collection of Black photography spans the Atlantic Ocean, highlighting neither protest nor celebration, but intimate documentation.

Glitches in Normality

From deserts to suburbia, Brooke DiDonato creates an off-kilter universe. Meanings of familiar objects are twisted; laws of physics unhinged.

A Digital Residence

Digital artist Andres Reisinger establishes a virtual winter haven – a place of respite and simplicity amidst the clutter of life online.

Unchanged Landscape

Białowieża Forest, on the border of Poland and Belarus, is the largest surviving remnant of a vast woodland that once stretched across Europe.

Ecofeminist Visuals

WaterAid collaborates with photographer and activist Poulomi Basu on a series exploring the impact of a lack of water on women and girls.

Technological Vanitas

Electronics have become the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. What becomes of old tech? Jeanette May explores this through still life.

Radical Possibilities

On 11 October 1928, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando was first published. Tilda Swinton curates a photography exhibition in response to the book.

Oceans of Possibility

By perforating, cropping, cutting and tearing, Canadian artist Amy Friend offers new visions of seascapes, with spellbinding results.