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Eileen Perrier: Identity and Belonging

Autograph’s new retrospective spotlights the career of Eileen Perrier, who uses the camera to foster connections between people and communities.

Redefining the Narrative

A landmark new book from Getty celebrates the transformative, but often overlooked, influence of LGBTQIA+ artists on the history of photography.

Zanele Muholi: Visual Activism 

Zanele Muholi’s iconic series brings together Black, queer people in a celebration of love and joy, whilst recognising the barriers the community still faces.

Saïdou Dicko:
Tracing Shadows

Saïdou Dicko bridges collage, painting and lens-based media at The Photographers’ Gallery. His work features silhouettes set against vivid backdrops.

Five Exhibitions for August

Our top picks for August are a vital reminder that art is a tool for advocacy and activism, featuring artists who say something urgent about our current world.

Craft, Memory and Resistance

In Bristol, Arnolfini opens Dana Awartani: Standing by the Ruins, a deeply resonant exhibition that brings together new and existing works from the artist.

Photographic Tradition

The Royal Photographic Society’s annual exhibition returns for its 166th edition, spotlighting works that are both visually stunning and culturally important.

Rediscovering Nature

Stedelijk Museum invites audiences to reconnect with the environment, exploring magical, natural phenomena through innovative new technologies.

Life in Bloom

Photographer Sian Davey began transforming her garden in 2020, it has since become the backdrop to dozens of portraits of her friends and neighbours.

Forests Illuminate

Glowing firefiles illuminate Japan’s woodlands after dark in Kazuaki Koseki’s dazzling body of work, skillfully weaving together ecology and folklore.

Painterly Depictions

Light, line, texture and form are key elements of Ashley Chappell’s portraiture, which occupies a space somewhere between fine art and fashion.

Climatic Responses

A new publication looks back on over fifty years of environmentally attuned buildings that blend inside and outside, responding to natural landscapes.

Layered Perspective

American landscape traditions are reframed by Terri Loewenthal’s vibrant multi-layered compositions, which are psychedelic and flooded with colour.

Stories in Colour

Sanja Marušić combines collage, costume, painting and the camera to craft otherworldly settings where playful, surreal narratives unfold in unexpected ways.

Deep Looking:
The August / September Issue

This issue explores the power of stillness and reflection, spotlighting artists whose work creates space for nuance, complexity and bold new ideas.

Into the Landscape

Rock formations, sand and water are constant sources of inspiration for Agnieszka Ostrowska, whose images are shaped by travel and place.

Building Atmosphere

Neil Kryszak captures dreamlike moments, which embrace a feeling of darkness and uncertainty, rendered in a cinematic, neon-noir visual style.

Creative Vanguard

The latest Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition opens as a call to action, celebrating those who are at the vanguard of contemporary practice today

Radiant Botanicals

Debora Lombardi employs ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence to reveal pigments hidden within flowers, which emit a mesmerising glow.

Reframing the Future:
The Power of the Image

The Wellcome Photography Prize Exhibition, now in its 28th year, brings together thought-provoking stories of health, science and human experience.

Era-Defining Voices

Huxley Parlour brings together the works of Ilse Bing, Kati Horna and Dora Maar, three of the most influential avant-garde artists of the 20th century.

From Memory to Possibility:
The Aesthetica Art Prize 2025

The 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize shortlist comprises 25 international artists who propose creative responses to the most pressing issues facing humanity today.

Impactful Portraiture 

Photographer Sujata Setia’s powerful portraits are made in collaboration with South Asian women who have personal experience of domestic violence.

Andy Goldsworthy:
Sculpting the Natural World

Andy Goldsworthy is one of the most influential British artists working today. A new retrospective celebrates his remarkable fifty-year career.

5 Images from PHotoEspaña

Discover standout photographs – portraiture, architecture and more – from the current edition of PHotoEspaña. This year’s festival theme is After All.

Forests Explored

Kew Gardens hosts their first-ever outdoor digital art display. Marshmallow Laser Feast’s installation fuses scientific research with bold, poetic visuals.

Steve McQueen’s Bass:
Stories in Light and Sound

The acclaimed artist presents his most abstract work to date, transforming Basel’s Schaulager with radiant light, changing colours and deep bass frequencies.

Cityscapes Transformed

M+ Gallery’s façade is one of the largest media screens in the world. This summer, it plays host to the work of renowned photographer Greg Girard.

Paz Errázuriz:
Revealing Hidden Realities

Paz Errázuriz documented what life was like for marginalised people under the Chilean dictatorship. Now, MK Gallery showcases her powerful work.

Twenty-Five Years of
Vision at Huis Marseille

Huis Marseille, the first photography museum in Amsterdam, celebrates a quarter-century of curatorial innovation with a survey of its collection.

Investigating Excess

New York’s MoMA PS1 presents 14 artists grappling with waste and accumulation – through installation, assemblage, painting, video and performance.

Dennis Morris: A Lyrical
Archive of Culture & Identity

The Photographers’ Gallery showcases the work of Dennis Morris, who captured the essence of sound and the soul of the Black British experience.

Becoming More Than Human

The Design Museum’s newest exhibition envisions a future where the world is designed not only for humans, but for all living creatures that inhabit it.

Reclaiming History

On Country showcases artists who capture Aboriginal Australia, celebrating its traditions and histories, whilst reckoning with collective trauma and grief.

Cindy Sherman:
Performing the Self

Cindy Sherman’s latest exhibition in Menorca is filled with images that lay bare the social, psychological and cinematic roles women are expected to inhabit.

The Power of Movement

Modern Art Oxford’s summer 2025 exhibition invites visitors to explore the incredible power of movement as a method of connecting, learning and living.

Drama Between the Tides:
The Art of Yin Yunya

Bodies of water, tidal rhythms and shells appear throughout Yin Yunya’s practice – a place where documentary and fine art photography collide.

Top 5 Exhibitions this July 

We bring you the top exhibitions to enjoy this July, featuring artists that explore identity, family and national history, as well as the future of design.

The Image Remains: A New Era for
Photography in Dublin’s Docklands

PhotoIreland, a longstanding force in the visual arts landscape, unveils the exciting new International Centre for the Image in the city’s North Wall.

Radiant Creations

Plein Soleil, the latest exhibition from De Revana, considers the history of light as a creative material. The show explores the medium’s enduring appeal.

The Essence of Water

Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition focuses on humanity’s relationship with freshwater, and how it shapes our culture, climate and infrastructure.

Anicka Yi and the
Poetics of Interdependence

At MFAH, Anicka Yi’s luminous sculptures and haunting digital ecosystems offer a glimpse into a world where art, biology and technology converge.

Edward Burtynsky:
Beauty and Fragility

Edward Burtynsky’s landscape photography reveals the startling impact of human behaviour on the natural world, and the beauty that can still be found.

Sou Fujimoto’s Future Forest:
Nature-Inspired Architecture

Mori Art Museum charts the course of one of the most innovative architects of our times, drawing on the influence of nature and forests in his practice.

A New Perspective

High Museum of Art spotlights the visionary artists of the New Vision movement, and the contemporary practitioners who are continuing their legacy.

Time, Memory, Luxury

Theodoros Nikolaidis’ Time Series is a collection of mixed-media pieces that explore identity, wealth and the transient nature of life.

Visual Activism

A new exhibition as part of Bienal Fotografia do Porto explores the role of photographers in preserving memory and encouraging activism.

Memory of a Place

Nick Prideaux’s photo book navigates the loss of the photographer’s family home in Australia, offering a powerful meditation on grief and climate disaster.

Collective Memory

Lebanese photographer Randa Mirza documents the changes she has seen in her home city of Beirut, impacted by both conflict and economic upheaval.

The Power of Place:
Liverpool Biennial 2025

This year’s programme, Bedrock, features 30 artists and collectives across 18 venues, spanning heritage sites, community spaces and cultural institutions.

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