After decades as Poland’s “El Dorado,” the industrialized economy of Upper Silesia crashed and burned, leaving its residents jobless and adrift. Today, even as a new identity forms, the past still lurks in the shadows.
Balancing on the edge between real and fictional worlds, these photographs grapple with the psychological responses—exhaustion, depression—that are a consequence of our hyperactive world.
How are rapid changes in technology, politics and culture shaping the way we live? Free-ranging artist Wolfgang Tillmans explores this concept in his blockbuster exhibition.
Compositions—comprised of old family photos, living plants, and fabric that was passed down through generations—tell the story of the photographer’s childhood farmhouse in Germany.
Caught in a terrible bind—El Salvador’s women have been told to abstain from pregnancy from two years due to the Zika virus, and yet they live in a country where rape is rampant, abortions result in decades of jail time, and even legitimate miscarriages a
Massive monuments raised by the former states of Yugoslavia praised the successes of a more egalitarian, antifascist society. Recent developments, however, question how much progress has really been made.
The five photographers shortlisted for this year’s Deutsche Börse award tackle emotional, personal, and cultural histories in an inspiring, diverse showing.
Moving Portrait of a City: Under Philadelphia’s El Train
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A 13-mile-long tangle of engineered metal, Philadelphia’s El train snakes through the city—this series delves even deeper, looking at how the urban fabric twists around its dark underbelly.
An intimate look at life around a remote border outpost in the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic—through the eyes of a soldier (and photographer) who had “no choice between the rifle and my camera…yet still I took photos.”
A 13-mile-long tangle of engineered metal, Chicago’s L train snakes through the city—this series delves even deeper, looking at how the urban fabric twists around its dark underbelly.
There are over 600,000 unoccupied homes in England, an endemic that indicates great upheaval within the urban space. A look inside the changing landscape of post-industrial spaces across the country (and by extension, the Western world).
Entering Restricted Worlds: British Prisons, Orthodox Jews and More
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The question of access is key to any documentary project—listen in as photographer Andrew Aitchison offers his advice based on experiences of penetrating some of the world’s more restricted communities.
Why are humans so fascinated by the prospect of seeing from above? A project weaving together satellite landscape shots with a classified CIA surveillance project in order to reflect on this moment of omnipresent watching and mapping.
Previously On Hans Lucas #14: Writing Stories in Images
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“The images, when confronted with one another, all seem to be multiplied, resonant, vibrant, immense…they take us far, far away, and present invisible answers to our infinite questions.”
“‘Place’ is something we carry with us—a summation of our inner memories mapped onto the present landscape as we traverse it.” Past and present blur together in this inventive, award-winning photographic collaboration.
Striking portraits of petrified animals in the landscapes they once inhabited draws our attention to crucial issues of conservation in Africa and around the globe.
Every night temo ser la dinner: FOAM Talent Spotlight
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“I’m trying to put the chapters in order—to piece together the puzzle of my life which I can never seem to figure out…” Experience one woman’s intense nocturnal encounters with 11 men across the Madrid cityscape in this idiosyncratic, award-winnin
Inspired by the efforts of Depression-era photographers like Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, a Lithuanian photographer sets out to record a similar watershed moment in the history of his homeland.
Facing Victims: A Photographer’s Place in Conflict and Disaster Zones
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The relationship between artist and subject is always complex—especially in warzones, battlefields and disaster-stricken areas. A photographer grapples with his relationship to the “victims” he photographs.
We should all be aware that photography doesn’t always tell the truth—these pictures confront us with this stark reality by repurposing a remarkable recovered archive from Bogotá, Columbia.
Mixing historical and contemporary photographic practices, these multi-layered images push beyond the edge of artistic control and emerge as complex and unconstrained.
A personal glimpse at the devastating legacy of Stalin’s “Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature”—which, in the span of a lifetime, turned the world’s fourth largest lake into a dried up, distant memory.
A personal glimpse at the devastating legacy of Stalin’s “Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature”—which, in the span of a lifetime, turned the world’s fourth largest lake into a dried up, distant memory.
Portraits of Ashkenazi and Sephardic women from Jerusalem, New York, Paris, and beyond that seek to illuminate the femininity that accompanies “every gesture and every moment of their daily lives as religious women.”
Exposed to bacteria taken from a toilet seat, an engagement ring, and beyond, images of our galaxy are warped and disfigured in a meditation on photography and the act of creation.
Day in and day out, men from an African brick quarry extract the basic building blocks of their world from the earth—and in the process, create an ever-changing work of art.
Selections from William Eggleston’s Masterwork, The Democratic Forest
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A wide-ranging review of Eggleston’s newest collection of photographs that touches on his influence on David Lynch as well as the unique “silence” in his photographs.
Photographs that use feelings of fear and wonder as tools to explore the collision of the contemporary city—Phoenix, AZ—with the dark, untamed desert wilderness.
From an American Civil War reenactment in the Czech Republic to a Bavarian festival in Michigan, Europe and the US are fascinated by each other’s cultures. A selection of images from these strangely transnational events.
“It’s so easy to make photographs, and if you’re not radical, you won’t progress”—Stephane Duroy discusses the necessary link between destruction and creation vis-à-vis his retrospective at Le Bal, in Paris.
Intimate and dramatic images of autistic children reveal the unique—almost magical—methods of communication that arise in the midst of this difficult childhood.
Paralyzing fear one day, boredom the next; joy, then doubt and anguish…waiting to hear their fate, refugees experience strangely conflicting emotions, often in a single day.
Flesh, Fragility, Vanity: Portraits in Brazilian Water Parks
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Water parks in southern Brazil are isolated microcosms where vanities, bodies, and fantasies are on display. A look at the self-conscious interactions between photographer and subject in this unorthodox landscape.
“By its very nature, Yugoslavia was a land of displaced peoples…” A photographer and writer grapples with the widespread denial of her country and nationality.
Last year, inflation in Venezuela hit 800% and basic goods became scarce—forcing all kinds of people to travel many hours, spend (relatively) vast sums of money and cross international borders just to acquire the simplest everyday products.
With sales totaling over 23 billion euros in Germany alone, trade shows are a massive source of revenue for capitalist economies. Here, an unsettling look at these bizarre, artificial spaces.
International Women’s Day 2017: 30 Female Photographers to Watch
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To celebrate International Women’s Day, the editors of LensCulture have highlighted a wide range of inspiring series made by up-and-coming female photographers from around the world—dig in!
