07.00 GMT From baptisms, monuments of spider-silk and holes carved in rock, Paul Guilmoth’s At Night Gardens Grow is about stories that are as fragile as the world they’re built on. Guilmoth writes: ‘I photograph my family, friends and neighbours whom I have grown close to. There needs to be an intimacy established before I can […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 25 Nov 2021 10.43 GMT Prada, Monte Carlo, 1984Helmut and his wife June settled in Monte Carlo in 1982. Helmut said: ‘This is a “Toy Town” to live in, but it has always reminded me of Germany before federation … having its own court and courtiers and having a prince and […]
14.59 GMT Simon Ginty as Keith Haring, Adam Riches as Andy Warhol and Michael Walters as Jean-Michel Basquiat in A Thousand Miles Of History by Harold Finley at the Bussey Building, London, directed by Harold Finley in 2013 Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian Facebook Twitter Jason Pennycooke (centre, front row) as Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge! The Musical […]
07.00 GMT Sulu Sea, Philippines, 1985A Bajau fisher and his daughter. Over five decades, photographer Steve McCurry has captured some of the most decisive moments of our time. From war zones to rural villages, he has gained international acclaim for his depictions of human resilience. Among these images are some astonishing photographs of children, each hinting […]
07.00 GMT Holy week, El Rocío, Spain, 2018Anima is Latin for soul, spirit or breath. Born in 1989, photographer Mathieu Richer Mamousse’s first book, Anima, is an insight into the world of pilgrimages. Here, a family is parading the Andalusian city of El Rocío. The pilgrimage honouring the Virgin Mary is one of the biggest in […]
10.33 GMT Rap artist Roque writes ‘Gas Battle’ on the door of a bar to announce an upcoming rap competition in the City of God favela. This was good news for the impoverished, sometimes violent Cidade de Deus favela in Rio de Janeiro: a rap duel in a local bar held for the first time since […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 19 Nov 2021 07.30 GMT Prototype of a Tesla coil installed at the end of the 1970s in a research centre that was secret at the time.Abandoned USSR is published by Jonglez Publishing Photograph: Terence Abela Facebook Twitter The coil was used to test insulators for the protection of vehicles, aeroplanes […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 18 Nov 2021 09.43 GMT Roses from the series Warawar WawaThe title means ‘son of the stars’ in the language of the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. This is a re-imagining of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s book Le Petit Prince, visualised through contemporary Andean culture. Photo Vogue Festival 2021 is free […]
07.00 GMT Abissa 1, 2021The Power of Alliances is a photographic series by Côte d’Ivorian artist Nuits Balnéaires. It illustrates the seven great families of the N’zima Kotokô tribe of Grand-Bassam, shedding light on the social structure that has spanned several centuries. ‘I worked with local artisans on the costumes and accessories, from bronze craftsmen for […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 16 Nov 2021 12.44 GMT Lounging, near Ocean DriveThe photos in renowned street photographer Godlis’s new book are the result of a 10-day trip to Miami Beach, Florida, taken as a 22-year-old photography student. Godlis Miami is published by Reel Art Press. All photographs: © GODLIS Facebook Twitter Dog Lady, Miami‘In […]
17.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 14 Nov 2021 00.25 GMT BOYCOTT TEXACO/YOU WHAT MATE Facebook Twitter GOPHIC DOLPHIN Facebook Twitter SUGAR TITS IS A COCK Facebook Twitter BARRY IS JESUS Facebook Twitter FAT PIG Facebook Twitter NECK FACE Facebook Twitter CAMERAS ARE RECORDING Facebook Twitter PLEASURE Facebook Twitter THE SKY IS BREAKING Facebook Twitter ZOOM! Facebook […]
07.00 GMT Sunset Junction, 2018 Photograph: Alex Prager Facebook Twitter Yam, Calabashes, Aso-oke, Egg and Pink Sponge, 2017 Photograph: Lorenzo Vitturi Facebook Twitter Young Woman in White T-Shirt Looking Up, 42nd Street, 2008 Photograph: Paul Graham Facebook Twitter Trevor Paglen, Bloom Photograph: Damian Griffiths/Courtesy of the Artist, Altman Siegel, San Francisco and Pace Gallery. Facebook Twitter […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 15 Nov 2021 08.25 GMT Steve Overthrow discovered sieve making in 2017 after reading a red list of endangered crafts. He learned that sieve and riddle making had recently become extinct after the last practitioner, Mike Turnock at Hill & Sons in Derbyshire, had retired. Steve decided to revive the craft […]
04.33 GMT Last modified on Fri 12 Nov 2021 04.35 GMT Introversion 2020 As our daily lives suddenly transformed due to Covid-19, I embraced this period of self-isolation using my photographic process as a form of escapism from my pandemic-induced anxieties. Photograph: Tamara Dean Facebook Twitter One hundred and twelve days of solitudeThis self-portrait was made in […]
07.00 GMT Untitled, preparatory study from Périphérique, 2005-2008Born in 1978 in Algeria to Algerian parents, Bourouissa came to France with his mother at the age of five. He grew up at Courbevoie, a banlieue (suburb) north-west of Paris.‘Tension’ is undoubtedly the word that recurs most often in interviews with Bourouissa when he discusses his series Périphérique, […]
09.00 GMT Lewis Gilbert on the set of the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me in 1976. Gilbert is pictured on on the “Jonah set” at Pinewood Studios, west London. Created to accommodate the supertanker owned by villain Karl Stromberg, it was the biggest soundstage and studio tank in the world. Facebook Twitter Poster […]
07.00 GMT Discarded #50 2014, by Anthony HernandezAnthony Hernandez’s monograph Discarded features unfinished houses and the land on which they sit, to the east and north-east of Los Angeles. The project arose from the 2008 recession, which hit California particularly hard, when homebuilders and owners faced loans and mortgages that were worth more than their properties. […]
12.45 GMT Last modified on Wed 10 Nov 2021 12.49 GMT Say formaggio … cast members including Salma Hayek, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Camille Cottin, Jack Huston and Mădălina Ghenea before the premiere of the new true crime thriller Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Rex/Shutterstock Facebook Twitter Adam Driver with a fan. In the film. Driver […]
07.00 GMT ‘The Fenway was, at that time, a somewhat underused park. It maintains the city’s low wetland in what is known as the Back Bay. Men and women would cruise the paths through tall reeds looking for casual sex, paid or free. I would walk through the Fenway on my way to and from classes […]
11.28 GMT Last modified on Tue 9 Nov 2021 12.05 GMT Robert Dean Stockwell was born in Los Angeles on 5 March 1936. Born into a family of entertainers, he had a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before he was 10 years old. Photograph: John Springer Collection/Corbis/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Anchors Aweigh, 1945Stockwell with Frank Sinatra in the shore-leave […]
07.00 GMT David by Katya Ilina (Shortlisted)‘From Velázquez to Ingres, painters have portrayed men in positions of power, whereas females are often pictured naked and reclining, communicating softness, weakness and openness to gaze. I wanted to borrow the body language from those paintings and juxtapose it with male sitters. Being strong still dominates western ideologies and […]
17.14 GMT Last modified on Mon 8 Nov 2021 18.13 GMT ‘American Roadside Monuments is really about a Yankee kid’s encounter with the vastness of America and the American west’ Photograph: Courtesy of the artist Facebook Twitter ‘People of my generation would routinely travel across the country via automobile. I’d round-tripped it twice by the time I […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 8 Nov 2021 23.03 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email South of the Sahara, and just north of the Great Rift Valley in landlocked Ethiopia, the Blue Nile flows from Lake Tana, the largest lake in the country. Radiating out from the sacred source is a scattering […]
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