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17/05/2026

Shoreline, 10 September 1998
Unique Dye Destruction print

Susan Derges captures the continuous movement of water by immersing photographic paper directly into rivers and shorelines, often working at night with moonlight and a hand-held torch to create images through direct exposure.

Created on the Devon coastline under a full moon, Shoreline reveals intricate swirls of water and trails of sand as a wave breaks across its surface.

16/05/2026

Celine Bodin, Light of Grace at Photo London, last day tomorrow

Reenacting suggestive gestures borrowed from the Old Masters through to 19th-century painting, Light of Grace explores the tension between female representation and ideals of beauty. Through obscured identities and softened aesthetics, the series reflects on perception in an image saturated world, proposing beauty as something intuitive existing beyond clarity and fixed form.

14/05/2026

Leila Jeffreys will be giving a talk tomorrow at Photo London: Birdland – The Photography of Leila Jeffreys with Thames & Hudson

Friday 15 May
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Ground Floor, National Hall, Olympia

Jeffreys will discuss her career photographing birds and her approach to pushing the boundaries of traditional nature photography. In a culture increasingly disconnected from the natural world, her work creates spaces for contemplation and wonder while asking urgent questions about the relationship between humans and nature.

Tickets available through the Photo London website.

From the series The Wound Is the Place Where the Light Enters, Cut-Throat, 2022, photograph on archival fibre-based cotton rag paper

13/05/2026

Join us tomorrow at Photo London for a book signing with Anaïs Tondeur.

Thursday 14 May, 3–4 pm
Booth A05, Ground Floor, National Hall, Olympia

Interweaving photography and ecology, botany and philosophy, Tondeur’s Fiori dei Fuochi (Flowers of Fire) series is developed in companionship with ruderal plants in the extreme soils of the Anthropocene: the Terra dei Fuochi and the volcanic area of Vesuvius, in the Naples region. Cultivated in Naples under the guidance of scientists and inhabitants of the land, Fiori di Fuoco takes the form of a correspondence between Tondeur, the philosopher Michael Marder, and communities of plants which — in Roman times, before the eruption of Vesuvius — cured people, and today participate in the healing of soils marked by the incineration and burial of toxic waste in the depths of the Terra dei Fuochi.

Tondeur follows plants as guides, learning from the ways they make worlds even amid the ruins.

11/05/2026

We hope and look forward to seeing you at Photo London 2026 this week for its 2026 edition, held at its new location, National Hall, Olympia, Hammersmith Road, from 14–17 May

Takashi Arai ∙ Céline Bodin ∙ Susan Derges ∙ Samuel Fosso ∙ Leila Jeffreys ∙ Sandra Kantanen ∙ Kathrin Linkersdorff ∙ Diana Matar ∙ Anaïs Tondeur ∙ Tessa Traeger.

In Diana Matar’s Tête-à-tête, 2019, a series of black and white photographs made during a residency at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Matar focused on the collection of Roman portrait sculpture. ‘Through the lens I saw personalities displaying unique psychologies and imperfections: individuals with scars, physical deformities, emotional complexities and vulnerabilities. I saw the man on the street corner, the woman in the shop, the boy who had left his family to cross the sea. Face to face, these ancient and animated human likenesses seemed poignant and of our time. The longer I spent with the collection, the more I found that, even though the sculptures were made of stone, they were alive and dynamic; that if one attended to them, they responded’.

07/05/2026

It’s been wonderful to celebrate Marcia Kure’s participation in the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, In Minor Keys, curated by Koyo Kouoh, this week in Venice.

Working across drawing, pigment, collage, and assemblage, Kure’s practice explores inscription, material entanglement, and the layered relationship between social, ecological, and economic worlds. Through gestural marks, natural pigments, carved forms, and cascading strands of synthetic hair, she traces histories of migration, labour, memory, and extraction, bringing together the natural and industrial within richly textured surfaces.

Central Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice

05/05/2026

We are delighted to announce Alice Maher’s participation in the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale de Venezia – In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh, 9 May – 22 November
The 111 invited participants – among them, individual artists, collaborative duos, collectives, and artist-led organisations – hail from many geographies and regions selected by Koyo Kouoh with particular attention to resonances, affinity, and possible convergences between practices, even when far apart.

04/05/2026

Alice Maher in The New York Times, as the Venice Biennale opens this week. We’re excited to be celebrating her presentation at the Central Pavilion, as part of the late Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys.alice

Link to the full article in bio

28/04/2026

It is 40 years this month since the Chernobyl disaster, and Anaïs Tondeur has been following its traces since 2011.

Her Chernobyl Herbarium series is a testimony to the nuclear disaster of 26 April 1986, when the core of a reactor at the Chernobyl power plant exploded and radioactive particles, carried by the wind, contaminated much of Europe. Working with biogeneticists studying the impact of radioactivity on flora in the irradiated zones around the plant, Tondeur renders the disaster visible by making direct prints of radioactive plants on photosensitive sheets. Although the Chernobyl Herbarium series engages with the history of photography and the herbarium as a tool of botanical classification, it is firmly rooted in the present—at a time when ecological disruption is widespread, and life persists in devastated landscapes.

22/04/2026

Diana Matar’s series My America is on display at FotoFest Houston until 10 May

My America features photographs taken at the exact locations where individuals were shot or tasered by law enforcement. These images highlight the local, often mundane settings where the fatal incidents occurred: shopping malls, mobile homes, empty fields, and roadside highways.

Co-curator Dr. Howard Bossen observed that, “In constructing My America, Diana Matar devoted years capturing the unseen traces of human history. Her work of preserving memory in the face of oblivion is especially vital during a time when the most powerful engage in active efforts at erasure. It is a reminder that simply providing records of what has been—lives lost, families destroyed, and community disrupted—can be an act of resistance when federal agents and local authorities attempt to act with impunity and disappear people off public streets.”

In My America, landscape photographs were made at the location where someone died. If Matar was unable to determine the precise location of a murder, she photographed the sky as a symbolic representation of the incident. The photos, along with testimonies and histories, were used to create the story about each individual found in the back of her book by the same name. Each image is not just a landscape; it’s also a memorial to the person who died.

17/04/2026

Takashi Arai takes part today in a panel discussion for the Prix Pictet Storm exhibition at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, in conversation with Hsu Chun-Yi, an acclaimed experimental image researcher and filmmaker, and Agnes (Tzu-ning) Liao, Director of UP Gallery and a nominator of the Prix Pictet. Together, they will exchange their unique perspectives on visual culture, the evolving landscape of photography, and Arai’s long-standing exploration of the daguerreotype and nuclear memory.

Tasogare dogu (Twilight sitter), Jomon clay doll, Meotoish Sode remains, BP 4000, 25 September 2023, unique daguerreotype, 25 × 20 cm

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