07.00 GMT The reconstruction of a nose, 2022, by Shirin Fathi‘An increasing number of young Iranian women resort to cosmetic surgery. This series started with me visiting beauty clinics in Tehran. I studied 16th-century medical drawings to understand the process of sculpting and altering facial features. Through role-play and silicone masks made from adjusted casts of […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 26 Jan 2023 10.43 GMT Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio (Filming The Aviator), Canada, 2003 by Brigitte LacombeBrigitte Lacombe’s oeuvre could be described as a who’s who of the second half of the 20th century. Along with her studio portraits she has a long-term project of shooting on director Martin Scorsese’s […]
07.00 GMT Kiev No 1, 2007 – Juergen TellerFor the 2007 Venice Biennale, the Pinchuk Art Centre commissioned Teller to interpret Ukraine. Teller chose to picture the city as a setting for a W Magazine fashion shoot, characteristically mixing fashion, still lives of the city, and portraits of ordinary people Share on Facebook Share on Twitter […]
07.00 GMT Untitled #34, 2018Robert LeBlanc’s Gloryland provides viewers with an intimate perspective into the last remaining ‘signs following’ Pentecostal serpent-handling church of West Virginia, deeply hidden in the Appalachian mountains. Here, Snook spins with a fire bottle under her chin as Chris Wolford preaches while holding a copperhead snake at the House of the Lord […]
07.00 GMT Kirsti (standing) with her five siblings in the hostel for homeless families, Blackpool, 1992Thatcher’s Children was born out of a series first made in 1992. Craig Easton says: ‘I met the Williams family – two parents and six children – in a hostel for homeless families in Blackpool. They were unable to get a […]
09.30 GMT Last modified on Mon 23 Jan 2023 14.50 GMT A worker from the Shirai Eco centre collects plastic bottles from recycling bins in the Omotesando area of Tokyo. Single-use plastic remains a huge problem in Japan, where even individual pieces of fruit frequently come packaged Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The bottles are cleaned […]
17.00 GMT Holly Camille Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Mushroom No 1 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Grass Angel Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Nawel Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Mushroom No 4 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Purple Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Mushroom No 5 Share on Facebook […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 20 Jan 2023 10.42 GMT These images are from 21st Century Types, 2005. The body of work is based on Lau’s research into portraits made by 19th-century and early 20th-century western photographers in China. Lau says: ‘Through this project, I am making a comment on imperialist visions of the ‘exotic’ Chinese. […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Jan 2023 16.59 GMT Allegoria 6, from the series Allegoria, 2021Omar Victor Diop’s work focuses on ecological awareness, mobilising endangered animals in his imagery and indigenous inscriptions, through traditional African robes and vibrant tones. Mirror of Self, an exhibition created by Hangar for the seventh edition of PhotoBrussels festival, is […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 18 Jan 2023 18.49 GMT Highway 385, Dalhart, Texas, 1974Steve Fitch has been photographing the American west for decades, revealing its changing landscape and vanishing roadside attractions. Steve Fitch’s Drive-In Theaters is at Joseph Bellows Gallery, California until 4 March Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Highway 81, Waco, Texas, 1973In […]
07.00 GMT Pound, County Kerry, 1994Born in County Kerry, Ireland, O’Shea has been returning annually to his home county for 30 years to pursue the Kerry Beagle drag hunt. Kingdom of Hounds is published by RRB Photobooks. All photographs: Tony O’Shea Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Carhan, County Kerry, 1991In a drag hunt, an artificial […]
14.04 GMT As Amie in A Jovial Crew by Richard Brome at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1992. Okonedo joined the RSC after leaving Rada Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Playing Nausicaa, holding hands with Jonathan Cake as Antinous, in The Odyssey by Derek Walcott for the RSC […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 12 Jan 2023 20.51 GMT Stevie, Hastings by Andreas BleckmannPortrait of Britain is an award-winning nationwide photography exhibition, run by the British Journal of Photography, in partnership with JCDecaux. The exhibition celebrates the rich tapestry of the people that make up Great Britain, turning their stories into public art. The 99 […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 11 Jan 2023 15.06 GMT Calle Corrientes desde Reconquista, Buenos Aires, 1936Buenos Aires photographer Horacio Coppola has always experimented with the contrasts of light and shadow. These photographs, taken in the 1930s, are part of an exhibition, Nocturnos, in which night, gloom or projected shadow have a leading role. Nocturnos is […]
07.00 GMT Lad in Middlesbrough FC ‘Boro’ hat, leaning against Tom Hatton’s houseboat, 1973Ian Macdonald was born in Middlesbrough. Since 1968 he has photographed consistently across the hinterland of his native Cleveland in the north-east of England. Ian Macdonald: Process, Environment and the Print is at Flow photographic gallery until 30 April 2023. An exhibition catalogue […]
09.00 GMT The overall prize went to this shot of two spotted salamanders being consumed by a northern pitcher plant in Algonquin provincial park, Canada Photograph: Samantha Stephens Share on Facebook Share on Twitter A beautiful raft spider shot from underwater in the Gemenc forest in Hungary, the largest floodplain forest in central Europe Photograph: Boldizsár […]
06.00 GMT In 1998 a 17-year-old Sheridan Smith starred in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods at the Donmar Warehouse in London. In a Guardian interview she recalled greeting the revered composer with a cheery ‘Hiya, Steve!’ (His reply: ‘I take it you’re playing Little Red Riding Hood?’) Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian Share on Facebook Share on […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 4 Jan 2023 18.45 GMT Wendy Stone: Siblings (3rd Place Winner, Series)‘Our son has two brothers who are over 20 years older than him and have moved out of the house. Being home with no siblings to play with often has him getting into mischief with our two dogs, Marius and […]
13.44 GMT First published on Tue 2 Nov 2021 07.00 GMT Albert Einstein at home in New Jersey, 1948This image was featured in the Guardian’s My Best Shot series Photograph: Marilyn Stafford Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Girl with milk bottle, Cité Lesage-Bullourde, Paris, circa 1950Stafford befriended the famous war photographer Robert Capa in Paris and […]
07.00 GMT Christina Stohn travelled to New Offenburg in the US state of Missouri – where the first immigrants from the Black Forest arrived in the 1830s. In this image we see the living room of an 83-year-old woman in River aux Vases. In the centre is a handmade quilt for her 40th wedding anniversary. Below […]