Our next Westminster Photoforum speaker is Mitra Tabrizian in conversation with David Bate on 2 Dec at 6:30. An esteemed Iranian‐British artist and filmmaker, Mitra has been exhibited and published widely and is represented in major international museums and public collections. Register via link.

Very much enjoyed my visit to Westminster Photography Arts MA grad Tarang Bharti's exhibition Pleat, Drape, Layer, Fold at LCF East Bank. His visits to the frozen North have yielded richly evocative conceptual work.

Foam talent deadline extended til 16 Nov. This prize has been career-changing for several former students. mailchi.mp/foam/foam-ta...

The Restless Shadow: Tom Lovelace and collaborators treated us to a weekend of photography, performance and dialogue at Westminster’s Ambika P3 gallery.

I'll be "Reconsidering Global Conceptualism and Photography" in Southeast Asia and the USA in the 1970s with Zhuang Wubin as part of London PhotoMonth at the Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, on 23 Oct 18:30-20:00. Free sign-up + invitation to Zoom livestream in link: photomonth.co.uk/reconsiderin...

Recent photography graduates--Foam Talent 2026 open call is now open. It's a career-changing opportunity for winners, and they've eliminated the age requirement, so those "emerging" at any age can apply! www.foam.org/talent/foam-...

Wonderful essays from Sarah Domini's "In the Photographic Darkroom" conference of a couple of summers ago at the University of Westminster, now available to download via PhotoResearcher journal: www.eshph.org/journal/phot...

I'll be in conversation with award-winning photographer and University of Westminster MA grad Sayuri Ichida as part of our Photography Forum talks series at 309 Regent Street on 7 Oct. These talks are free to all, but you must register here; www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/westminste...

All welcome! Portfolio Reviews for graduating students from the University of Westminster's new MA degrees in Expanded Photography and Art and Emerging Technologies. Meet the artists and see completed digital works, print portfolios and books. Thurs 18 Sept 5-7 at 309 Regent St. Book a free place:

It’s one year this week since the publication of the Routledge Companion to Global Photographies. The 36 essays from around the world are free, open access to all: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

I’ve just signed a contract for a 3rd edition of Why Art Photography? to be published in 2027. Looking forward to responding to the many changes in the field since 2018!

Fresh London photography zines by marvellous summer school students from Kyungil University. We enjoyed our 2 weeks together at the University of Westminster!

Cool pictures for a hot summer! Come to join us at the University of Westminster's Harrow Galleries for a reception celebrating London photography by visiting students from Kyungil University, South Korea. Reception 18 July 16:00-18:00 at the Harrow Campus HA1 3TP. Image: Yesul Kim

Aspiring photography writers--I recommend this prize. Whether or not you win, it's a good way to make contact with Source. Many photography writers, myself included, have gotten a start writing reviews for this smart, readable, well-edited publication. www.source.ie/writingprize...

Congrats to Westminster Photography Arts MA grad Adaeze Ihebom, doing the 2025 SPAZIO GRIOT artist residency dedicated to the Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists. You may have seen her self-p on the cover of Liz Wells, Photography: A Critical Edition. spaziogriot.org/en/spazio-gr...

Sayuri Ichida, a stellar Westminster Photography Arts MA Graduate is shortlisted for an Alumni Achievement award. If you know and like her work, would you please consider participating in the public vote? app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/westminste...

Last chance to see our Westminster Expanded Photography degree show at Ambika P3, Tuesday 1 July 11-7

Drop by Ambika P3 Marylebone Rd to see fresh work by the Westminster MAs in Expanded Photography, and Art & Emerging Technologies 11-7 thru Tues 2 July

Join us for the PV of 'Test Site', a show by graduates of the University of Westminster MA Expanded Photography and MA Art & Emerging Technologies 26 June, 18:30-20:30, Ambika P3 Gallery Show continues 27 June – 1 July, 11:00-19:00    Free booking for PV: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-expande...

Still thinking about how much I enjoyed Dafna Talmor’s show The Moving Eye Cannot See at Sid Motion Gallery. The way she marks and slices the negatives to build her analog constructed landscapes creates wonderfully jazzy lines that make the compositions dance. Very pleasurable.

Saturday 24 May at 4pm I’ll be at Sid Motion Gallery for a discussion with Dafna Talmor on the last day of her show “The Moving Eye Cannot See.” You are welcome to join us! sidmotiongallery.co.uk/exhibition/t...

Time is running out the buy classic back copies of @sourcephoto.bsky.social including the first published portfolios of many now-prominent photographers (and classic essays by photography writers…)

Very pleased to have received my copy of Photobook Conversations, the 3rd volume in this series from 1000 Words. For sample interviews with photobook people around the world see 1000wordsmag.com/features/

Photobook grant from the Alkazi Foundation to support South Asian photo-narrative projects (any theme). alkazifoundation.org/call-for-ent...

My favourite Photo London works were across the road at Bush House. David Penny’s Scatterings were made with lasers as part of nanomaterials research in collab with King’s College.

WESTMINSTER PHOTOGRAPHY FORUM I am am looking forward to being "in conversation" with artist Felicity Hammond, Thursday 8th May 2025, 6.30pm-7.30pm in The Cayley Room at the University of Westminster's Regent St campus. Free but register for a space here; www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/westminste...

WESTMINSTER PHOTOGRAPHY FORUM Marlene Creates 29/4/25 6.30pm

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is hosting an online symposium about the impacts of documentary photography and photojournalism on our perception of the world. Important topic as we consider the rapidly shifting political/cultural/technological landscape! Wed 14 May. www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...

IMAGE FUTURES: WORK IN PROGRESS SHOW Expanded Photography MA, Art and Emerging Technologies MA Thursday 27 March, Reception 17:00-19:00 London Gallery West The University of Westminster, Harrow Campus HA1 3TP All welcome! Image: Sarah Nicholl

Interviews with photography luminaries including Mark Sealy, Gerry Badger and Liz Wells available on Frank Watson's Resonance FM radio show, The Sound of Photography. www.thesoundofphotography.com

Our annual *call for new work* is open until 28th March. This is part of our research for future issues, and is an opportunity for photographers to introduce the editors directly to their new. All details are on the 'Submissions' page of our website www.source.ie #photographyopportunity #opencall

Great to see PhotoIreland going from strength to strength!

Aparna Nori’s “how to climb a tree,” a beautiful heartwarming/breaking book about mothering a boy who is away at boarding school. Editions JOJO 2024

“To document the soil-sampling process in floodplain area,” a delightful conceptual photobook by Kush Kukreja (evoking the very serious issue of heavy metal contamination in Indian rivers and soil) 2022

This short essay I wrote in 2023 explores the current conditions of art photography as it unfolds in various global contexts (first published in Cuaderno 186, Universidad de Palermo, Argentina): fido.palermo.edu/servicios_dy...

While we were in New Delhi last week, Duncan Wooldridge and I met up with Priyanka Chharia and recorded Episode 11 of her podcast, The Photobook: "What is the role of an artist today?" open.spotify.com/episode/7bfV...

Wonderful rare photobooks from around the world can be viewed by appointment in the library at JOJO, Mumbai (Sim Chi Yin + Chobi Mela catalogue 2015). See also OFFSET photobook library, Delhi.

Philippe Calia at Tarq in Mumbai. Witty, conceptual, lyrical work about this amazing city.

Who decides the value of education? How do we measure it?

Impermanence, Arpan Mukherjee’s show at Cymroza gallery, Mumbai. The undisputed Indian leader in alternative processes, he includes a video stitched from more than a hundred lyrical glass negative landscapes.

Directory of open calls for photography and photo media artists. submit.picter.com

“The Village on the Hill” work by Gauri Gill at Vadehra, Delhi

“Shadows in the Sky” Installation and video work by Sarker Protick at Shrine Empire, Delhi

Thursday 6 March I'll be in conversation with Duncan Wooldridge and Veerangana Solanki about materialities and exhibitions in global photographies at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai. You are very welcome to join us!

If you are in Delhi this Friday 28 Feb, do join us at the Alkazi Foundation for a lively discussion of transnationality and regionality in contemporary photography.

Phhotoworks seed grants deadline 27 March. £500 for UK based photographers to advance their work directly or indirectly photoworks.org.uk/whats-on/pho...

Two new Cafe Royal photo books by Adam Ritchie. The remarkable portraits of the very early days of the Velvet Underground are a rare departure for a series that usually sticks to British or Irish subject matter.

As well as being free to read or download from the Routledge website, The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies is also available to download free on Kindle. If you check out this anthology of essays about contemporary photography around the world, please leave a review!

Super CREAM research workshop today with Tom Lovelace about "Photography and the Senses."