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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
07.00 GMT Timing: Essex, stepfather Doug’s house, 2011Melanie Stidolph says: ‘The photographs in this book were made over the five years I was unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant. Part of my art practice, but also subconsciously, a way of coping.’ Stidolph’s work will be showing as part of the group exhibition, We Are Floating In Space, […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
07.00 BST Palace of Westminster, from Cinderella Tours Europe, 1998– 2001Another Country offers a lively rethinking of British documentary photography over the last seven decades. This collection includes a diverse range of photographers and encompasses various styles: from iconic reportage and photo-text pieces to self-portraits and political photo-collages. Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945 by […]
07.00 BST Hiroji Kubota: Stock exchange, Hong Kong, 1996The first of Magnum’s three NFT collections will be released as part of the agency’s 75th anniversary celebrations throughout 2022. The collection can be found on Foundation. Six drops will then take place over the next two weeks to 12 July. Each drop will include a selection of […]
07.00 BST Glance, Hong Kong, 2006Mary McCartney: ‘I am in Hong Kong with my husband, just for one day. This ferry ride is one of my favourite moments from that day. We are together, side by side, just simply observing all around us. This couple catch my eye. Their closeness, and ease with each other. And […]
09.17 BST Last modified on Wed 8 Jun 2022 09.41 BST A Matter of Colour. Documentary of the Struggle for Racial Equality in the USA – Danny Lyon and others, London, 1965Photography and mass or pop culture grew dramatically during the 60s. Globally, news events were captured in printed photos: from colonial wars, revolts against racial segregation […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 3 Mar 2022 16.53 GMT Luke Fowler at Flourish Studios, circa 2001‘I started photographing the arts scene in Glasgow in the late 80s by happy accident, and ended up being asked to cover events. People got used to me being there at parties which made it easy to be invisible. I […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 7 Dec 2021 14.45 GMT From the series Up, 2018, by Mariam SholajaSholaja often draws inspiration from her Nigerian heritage and imbues her images with natural elements. UP is inspired by the concept of height and altitude. Altitude is measured by air pressure, and Sholaja suggests that the strength of human […]
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 […]
15.12 GMT Last modified on Sun 28 Feb 2021 15.29 GMT London, UKChildren celebrating the Jewish holiday Purim stand in front of their house waiting for guests Photograph: Ming Yeung/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Baikonur Cosmodrome, KazakhstanBlastoff for the Soyuz spacecraft carrying the Arktika-M satellite, which will monitor the Arctic’s climate Photograph: Russian Space Agency Roscosmos/Reuters Facebook […]
07.15 GMT Last modified on Thu 18 Feb 2021 10.26 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Up to his loins in crisp clean snow … Damien Hirst’s 21ft-tall Temple in St Moritz, Switzerland. Photograph: Felix Friedmann/Damien Hirst and Science Ltd, DACS 2021 If anyone should have been ready for this it was Damien […]
09.34 GMT Last modified on Wed 10 Feb 2021 20.11 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Gabriel Moses regularly flicked through his family photo albums as he grew up in south London. Shot by a local photographer, the images are simple snapshots that capture his Nigerian family at home in Catford. “You could […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 25 Jan 2021 16.10 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘How do you live in the aftermath?’ … author and lawyer Abigail Dean in Dulwich Park, London. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian Abigail Dean was about to turn 30 when she suddenly realised that her job as a […]
16.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Jan 2021 19.37 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I have a darkness I didn’t have before’ … Ben Chaplin at the National Theatre in London. Photograph: Rii Schroer/Eyevine Sitting in the Los Angeles sun in a T-shirt and a hoodie, Ben Chaplin has a coffee […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 11 Jan 2021 20.35 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Olly Alexander: ‘You can see how easy it is for a party lifestyle to turn into something negative.’ Photograph: Hugo Yanguela; Styling: Nick Royal Olly Alexander was so certain he was destined for success that he saw […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 10.06 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It sees the Regency period through American eyes’ Lanre Bakare Christmas 1995 was one to forget. I was ill and mostly confined to the sofa, trying to keep down mince pies as my big sister made her […]
09.56 GMT Last modified on Mon 4 Jan 2021 09.58 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Geoff Stephens, pictured circa 1970. Photograph: Ronald Spencer/Daily Mail/Rex/Shutterstock Geoff Stephens, the prolific Grammy-winning British songwriter behind hits such as Winchester Cathedral and The Crying Game, has died aged 86. In a message confirming the news to […]
08.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 30 Dec 2020 09.32 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A mirror on the world … Mark Rylance in Jerusalem at the Royal Court. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian When the UK entered its first lockdown in March, there was a lot of talk about using this enforced […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Sat 2 Jan 2021 19.06 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email For Those I Love The disbelieving, punch-drunk stare of the grieving has rarely been so vividly evoked as on the debut album by the Dublin artist David Balfe, written before and after the death of his best […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 30 Dec 2020 17.39 GMT Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon by Sarah LeeThe two comedians filming on set in Greece. In a joint interview in Weekend magazine, Brydon told writer Laura Barton: ‘I’m a proper fan of [Steve], he’s terrific. Career-wise and work-wise, he’s kind of faultless. On a personal level, […]
18.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Courttia Newland in West Ham Park, east London, December 2020 Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer Courttia Newland, 47, grew up in west London and published his first novel, The Scholar: A West-Side Story, aged 23, earning critical praise for his portrayal of a teenager’s life in […]
06.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs The title of Sleaford Mods’ sixth album is apparently an oblique reference to the fatalities in the first wave of coronavirus: “Human lives are always expendable to the elites,” in the words of vocalist Jason Williamson, “we’re in a constant […]
11.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 12.52 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Regé-Jean Page: ‘It takes so little imagination to include people, as opposed to how much thought and effort it takes to keep people out of these stories.’ Photograph: Joseph Sinclair “As an artist, you have to constantly […]
17.00 GMT Dan Leno as Widow Twankey in Aladdin at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1896 Photograph: Wikipedia / Public domain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Buttons (Will Evans) and one of the ugly sisters (Stanley Empire) in Cinderella at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1919 Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Derek Roy as the nursemaid in […]