What the Polaroid did do, though, was inform the image-making of an ensuing generation, underpinning the snapshot aesthetic, whereby the apparently mundane and casual was actually formally rigorous and deeply […]

It is worth remembering, too, that although our contemporary image culture is without precedent in terms of its scale and its endless flow, there was another moment when technology sparked […]

A glance at the range of processes that underpin contemporary photography practice attests to the fact that the medium is now performance, sculpture, abstraction, deconstruction and diary as much as […]

To this end, younger photographers make work that is, on one level, a dynamic reflection of the dilemma of the contemporary photographer in an age of image overload. One, for […]

Increasingly, though, contemporary photography is all about, to borrow a term beloved by academics and curators, “interrogating the medium”, which often means shifting it away from documentary towards other, more […]

Another type is the one which comprises black and white portraits and landscapes of contemporary pilgrims and holy sites. Using film, the work draws on the austere portraiture and the […]

We see a dramatic merging of the real and the possibly fictional, a stream of visceral images of life on the margins in India that had an almost hallucinatory intensity. […]