07.00 BST Backdrop, Invictus, 2009The life of a movie extra has always fascinated Keith Bernstein. On every production he photographs these outsiders, always 20 feet from stardom, who subject themselves to long hours on set, waiting for their brief moment in the spotlight. The Extras series began on the set of Invictus in Cape Town in […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 26 Oct 2022 10.16 BST First prize winner – Clémentine Schneidermann: Laundry Day #3, 2021Clémentine Schneidermann’s portraits of her neighbour’s daily lockdown chores have won the Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize 2022. The judges had an immediate response to the simplicity of Schneidermann’s project, capturing mundane, everyday tasks while evoking a […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Tue 25 Oct 2022 11.01 BST Hotel Facade from Above, Paris, circa 1935With works created throughout the 1930s, a new exhibition provides an intimate encounter with Maar’s early photographic interests and her preoccupation with the subtle and uncanny. The show anticipates the later foray into surrealism for which she is renowned today. […]
12.12 BST Last modified on Mon 24 Oct 2022 13.07 BST Gannets Overhead, Thomas Easterbrook – winner, youth black and whiteI took this photo of the two gannets as they flew over our heads when we were on a boat just off the coast of Cornwall. A large number of gannets were diving around us – a […]
14.58 BST Last modified on Mon 24 Oct 2022 15.51 BST People prepare marigold garlands for Diwali at a wholesale market in Ghazipur, Delhi. Flowers are commonly used as offerings to the gods Lakshmi and Ganesh Photograph: Pradeep Gaur/Sopa/Rex/Shutterstock Facebook Twitter People gather at the Batu Caves in Malaysia to perform a morning prayer ceremony. Diwali, also […]
06.22 BST There are currently about 1,000 malls in the US, and it is estimated that one in four will close in the next few years as vacancy rates are increasing due to the pandemic, a slowed economy and increased online shopping. The Wayne Hills mall started to die in 2008, when Sam Goody and other […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Fri 21 Oct 2022 15.00 BST Overall winner of the competition was Amanuel Sileshi from Ethiopia for his work documenting the civil war between Tigray separatists and the Ethiopian government. Here, he captures civilians fleeing from a battle in the town of Zarima in September 2021. Photograph: Amanuel Sileshi Facebook Twitter Combatants […]
07.00 BST Dawn, Texas Hill‘Dawn worked on the ranch I was staying at. I was there when she received the phone call that her mother had passed away. I didn’t take a photograph of that moment, it didn’t feel right. On my next visit to the Hill Country she invited me to her own families ranch […]
07.00 BST Chuck Gretsch (with Cigar), 1981Peter Hujar curated by Elton John is a wide-ranging survey of the American photographer’s celebrated career. Best known for his portraits of personalities, animals and wrecked cars, Hujar’s work explores decay, sexuality and the life we share in common. A new exhibition of 50 photographs gives you the chance to […]
16.00 BST Fourth place Pholcus phalangioides, or the long-bodied cellar/daddy long-legs spider (image stacking, 3x objective lens magnification) Photograph: Dr. Andrew Posselt/Nikon Facebook Twitter Honourable mentionA butterfly egg (image stacking, 10x objective lens magnification) Photograph: Zhang Ye Fei/Nikon Facebook Twitter Sixth place Unburned particles of carbon released when the hydrocarbon chain of candle wax breaks down […]
09.38 BST Last modified on Tue 18 Oct 2022 10.26 BST A driver waits to enter the racetrack at Arlington in August Photograph: Tom Parker Facebook Twitter Spectators chat to a driver who waits in line to enter the arena. Drivers qualify for the unlimited category through winning at other banger racetracks throughout the year such as […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Tue 18 Oct 2022 16.44 BST Scarecrow in a rice field, Tulas, India, 2015To celebrate 75 years of Magnum, the celebrated photography agency is running three sales exploring their illustrious history. Following the success of Precedents, this second instalment is called Now and is in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery. There are […]
09.03 BST Last modified on Tue 18 Oct 2022 09.05 BST Cuban artist Reynier Leyva Novo removes political leaders from their speeches and invites the viewer to imagine themselves in that moment, as in this shot from the series A Happy Day – Microphones, 2020. Photograph: Reynier Leyva Novo/Sicardi Ayers Bacino Facebook Twitter An image from a […]
07.00 BST The Melody Maker, Vol 1, No 1, January 1926Paul Gorman: ‘The story of the music press starts here, when Tin Pan Alley-based song-sheet publisher Lawrence Wright circulated the first edition of his 32-page magazine. It aimed to cash in on the Roaring Twenties craze for dance-bands playing syncopated “hot” jazz. Wright was also keen […]
09.02 BST Last modified on Wed 12 Oct 2022 10.04 BST New life for the tohorā by Richard Robinson, New Zealand | Winner, oceans: the bigger pictureA hopeful moment for a population of whales that has survived against all odds. Hindered by poor visibility, Robinson used a polecam to photograph the whales gradually moving towards his boat. […]
07.00 BST Photographer Effie Paleologou’s new photobook documents the otherworldly environments of two cities at night, London and Athens, both of which Paleologou has come to regard as almost home. Tales of Estrangement is available from Mack. All photographs: Effie Paleologou/Mack Facebook Twitter Paleologou pursues the contradictory atmospheres of familiarity and unease produced by the nocturnal […]
07.00 BST Mowing the lawnA Year in the Life of Chew Stoke Village by Martin Parr is published by RRB Photobooks. An exhibition of the project will go on display in January at the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol. All photographs: Martin Parr/Magnum Photos Facebook Twitter Chew Stoke Cricket ClubThis new book includes 40 previously unpublished […]
09.38 BST Last modified on Mon 10 Oct 2022 11.12 BST Ham, a chimpanzee, is fitted into the couch of the Mercury-Redstone 2 capsule No 5 before its test flight on 31 January 1961 Facebook Twitter The launch of the Mercury-Atlas 8 Sigma 7 mission on 3 October 1962 Facebook Twitter An unmanned Gemini 2 flight blasts […]
07.00 BST A skinhead couple in Leicester Square, London, in 1980. Ingledew recalls: ‘It was an amazing time back then, a brief period when things seemed accelerated compared to today. Music went from pub rock to punk to new wave to two-tone and then mod revival in about three summers. There were a huge number of […]
08.30 BST Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara: Cannes, 2015‘The Cannes film festival is not the best place to try and practise an intimate style of portraiture. Everything feels ominous, nervous, edgy. I try to be as tranquilisingly mellow as I can. I don’t want the subject’s memory of me to be of a body with a […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Thu 6 Oct 2022 11.40 BST Ram Chand: Two Men and Mirror Portrait, 1970sAn Alternative History of Photography: Works from the Solander Collection opens at the Photographers’ Gallery, London from 7 October until 19 February. An accompanying book, An Alternative History of Photography, is published by Prestel and out now in the […]
07.00 BST Sabiha Çimen: A plane flies low over students riding a train at a funfair over the weekend, from the series Hafiz, Istanbul, 2018Sabiha Çimen’s Hafiz (2017–2020) explores the lives of young Islamic women in Turkey. The series weaves an emotional narrative that calls forth Çimen’s own personal experiences, through collected vignettes of the daydreams, […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Tue 4 Oct 2022 12.52 BST Father and son watching a parade, West-end of Newcastle, Tyneside, 1980A full-career retrospective of work by one of the UK’s most important and influential postwar documentary photographers, Chris Killip (1946-2020), will run at the Photographers’ Gallery in London from 7 October to 19 February. The exhibition […]
08.00 BST Last modified on Mon 3 Oct 2022 13.37 BST Chris Trinh (Lebanon)The Vietnamese American photojournalist and multimedia reporter Trinh documents resistance around the world, touching on migration, belonging, intersectional identities – and how the climate crisis and colonialism impact communities of the global majority.A protester from the Camp Migizi in the US looks over a […]