07.00 BST Last modified on Thu 1 Jun 2023 16.04 BST Chris Ofili at Victoria MiroThe Seven Deadly Sins is a major new series of paintings by Chris Ofili. Completed over the past six years, the works offer a meditation on sin and the complex experience of sinfulness. The artist intended each painting not to cleave to […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 31 May 2023 08.19 BST Beachy Head, East Sussex, March 2017In the week Theresa May triggered Article 50, the start of the two-year negotiation period to take Britain out of the EU, ramblers explore the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs on the Channel coast – which for many people are symbolic of […]
11.42 BST Last modified on Tue 30 May 2023 18.30 BST A decade ago Darryl and his partner, Jo, bought the 13-hectare Great Lindeth Wood, a rare, ancient coppiced woodland in Cumbria where they live off-grid. The land had been coppiced in the past but fallen to neglect. ‘There were a few reasons why I started out […]
07.00 BST Untitled (bubblegum), 1989Known affectionately as the ‘photie man’ across Merseyside, Tom Wood worked in the region at a time of great social and political change. Matchdays at Anfield and Goodison Park, trips to ‘Greatie’ Great Homer Street market and bus journeys through the streets of Liverpool all feature as part of the first major […]
17.28 BST Bring your duvet to work day. Ashley Graham’s grey taffeta cape from Dolce & Gabbana looked seriously snuggly at the screening of Club Zero. Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters Share on Facebook Share on Twitter If fashion did circus ringleaders … model Ikram Abdi stepped right up in a flared gown fully embroidered in black and […]
07.00 BST Revenge is a kind of savage justice – Lucas BambozziThe Brazilian artist Bambozzi takes an ironic look at changes in the social status of the automobile. What was once an icon of speed and urban life has now become a symbol of the energy and environment crisis Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Hungarian […]
16.40 BST Last modified on Thu 25 May 2023 16.43 BST A still from Fireworks, Anger’s landmark short film, which was first shown publicly in 1947 and was later subject to an obscenity case, which it eventually won. Photograph: Album/Alamy Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Fireworks gained a cult following for its homoerotic themes and surreal, […]
07.00 BST Truck, TexasA 2017 road trip from Texas to Los Angeles inspired the pictures in Jason Lee’s new book. Of this image he says: ‘An old truck used to advertise roadside fruit for sale, with weathered hand-painted watermelon signs affixed to the truck, and the waving American flag atop the slightly askew flagpole. Many of […]
14.30 BST Lesedi La Hae, Bontle JukuThe title Lesedi La Hae (Her Light) speaks to the god essence, the powerful and spiritual energy of the medium of light, which cannot be contained or defined and goes beyond the physical attributes of the medium. This series functions as a photographic response to the colonial misrepresentations I observed […]
07.00 BST John the Baptist, 2023Campbell Addy was born and raised in south London. His work follows unique narratives and authentic emotions in nature, with a focus on distinctive casting and under-represented faces. I ❤ Campbell is a recollection of himself, piecing together lost fragments and constructing a new image of who he is beyond what […]
07.00 BST Early morning exercise class for retirees, some aged over 90 (Phoenix, 1980)David Hurn started taking photographs when he was in the army. In 1979-80 he was awarded a UK/US Bicentennial Fellowship, a one-year award to photograph in the US. He chose to visit Arizona: ‘It was the most rightwing state in America, and Wales […]
08.00 BST Who needs a wind machine? Naomi Campbell (and her Valentino gown) with Mohammed Al Turki at the Killers of the Flower Moon premiere. Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Dua Lipa hard-launched her new fringe and her new boyfriend, the French director Romain Gavras at the Omar la Fraise (The […]
17.00 BST The Bather, 2017, by Peter Doig. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter La Vague, 1896, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Fisherman and the Little Fish from Fontaine’s Fables, 1739, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Untitled, 2023, by Tesfaye Urgessa. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter […]
08.02 BST Last modified on Fri 19 May 2023 20.44 BST Newark Police officers fire at a fleeing Billy FurrBud Lee was on assignment for Life magazine in Newark in the summer of 1967 covering the riots sparked by the arrest and beating of a cab driver. Photograph: Estate of Bud Lee Share on Facebook Share on […]
11.55 BST Last modified on Fri 19 May 2023 12.16 BST Andy Rourke and Johnny Marr performing with the Smiths Photograph: Paul Slattery Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Smiths perform on Channel 4’s The Tube in 1984 … (from left) Andy Rourke, Mike Joyce (drums), Morrissey, Johnny Marr Photograph: Pete Cronin/Redferns Share on Facebook Share […]
07.00 BST Vase with yellow flowersIn 2021, while passing Riverside Church in San Antonio, Texas, Herman Ellis Dyal noticed an open door and, after not setting foot inside the building for half a century, entered. Over two years, Dyal photographed the interior of this church, which had been at the centre of his family’s life since […]
07.00 BST An Ordinary Eden, 2021To be without a permanent home is both a tangible and an emotional experience, where the necessity for safety and security accompanies a need to belong. In An Ordinary Eden, individuals across Scotland offer an insight into the practical and psychosocial impact of past or current homelessness on their lives. Margaret […]
07.00 BST Huntington Beach, Bay Village, 2014For over a decade, large-format photographer Lynn Whitney has captured Lake Erie’s imperilled Ohio shores. Her book Lake Erie is available through Kehrer Verlag. An exhibition, Ohio Boundary: Lake Erie, will be at Lakeside Chautauqua, Ohio, USA in May 2023. All photographs: Lynn Whitney Share on Facebook Share on Twitter […]
08.37 BST Wayne McGregor’s new show at London’s Royal Opera House is inspired by Jim Henson’s 1982 film The Dark Crystal, but it does not replicate the fantasy storyline. Rather, it gives a vision of a world in peril, a world out of balance – our own world Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The dancers […]
07.00 BST The Village (Village Wedding), 1993, by Anna FoxUsing images and texts parodying the style of magazine journalism, Fox’s body of work posits a satirical view of contemporary southern England. Writing Her Own Script: Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection is at Photo London 2023, Somerset House, London, from 11-14 May Share on Facebook Share […]
06.02 BST Last modified on Wed 10 May 2023 16.25 BST Marion Post Wolcott (American, 1910–1990)One of the Wilkins family making biscuits for dinner on cornshucking day at Mrs Fred Wilkins’ home near Tallyho, Granville county, North Carolina, 1939 Photograph: Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. Gift of Judith Hochberg and Michael Mattis, 1986.295 Share on Facebook Share […]
07.00 BST Windrush boat, St Pauls carnival, Bristol, 2018This year’s Photo London Master of Photography is British photographer Martin Parr, who presents an exhibition of new images taken in the UK. Photo London’s co-founders Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad say: ‘Parr is rightly regarded as the godfather of British photography. Without his exemplary practice today’s British […]
07.00 BST 4 Boys, 2014Photo London returns to Somerset House for its eighth edition, presenting 125 exhibitors from 56 cities across the globe. A celebration of the medium in all its forms, Photo London presents the best of the past, present and future of photography. Photo London runs from 11–14 May (preview on 10 May) at […]
17.32 BST Last modified on Mon 8 May 2023 18.24 BST Rogue One, Tef, Vues, Panda, Rachel Miller, Chelsea Frew, James Klinge, Ross MacRae, Conzo & Glöbel, Box Vincent, and Taio were added to the extensive list of local and global artists that appeared at this year’s event Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Share on Facebook Share on […]
17.00 BST An interwar wallet by Durbin & McBryde of Croydon outlines photography’s democratic appeal across all ages and genders, while simultaneously showing a photographic golden rule: keep your light source behind you. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Ensign of Launceston print wallet, c1930s. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The bright possibilities of colour […]
07.00 BST A Crane Being Erected on the Corner of West and Liberty, New York City, 2001 ‘In the history of painting, the Romantic sublime is often depicted with a ruin; the “once was” of history, the bones left over that are now a monument, a memento mori, to the past. I adopted that view in […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Thu 4 May 2023 10.08 BST Pettet’s Delft shoes (dated 1988) are taken from models of the late 17th- to early-18th centuries when they were popular in France, Holland and Germany, as well as England. A large number have initials and are dated, suggesting they were made for betrothals and marriages, or […]
07.00 BST Chaldean girls in the village of Tel Kaif, north of Mosul, 1944The Courtauld Institute of Art has completed a five-year project to open its internationally renowned collection of photographs to the public for free, working with 14,000 volunteers to digitise more than one million images from the Conway Library. Among the collection is Britain’s […]
07.00 BST Odesa – Yelena Yemchuk The photographic project Odesa by the Ukrainian Yemchuk is a visual ode to a city that she says has always fascinated her in terms of the freedom it enjoyed throughout the Soviet era Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Slavica Eremic Feeds Her Baby Son Nikola, Jurga, Croatia, 2006-2008 – […]
07.00 BST Wetlands ‘A Country Kind of Silence continues my internal exploration of feelings surrounding my sense of identity,’ says Ian Howorth. ‘A sense that belonging isn’t as unattainable as it is hard to grasp. England has been my adoptive home for some time now, 26 years to be exact.’ A Country Kind of Silence is […]