Rather than shock value, it was her work’s arresting rawness, its point of contact with photography’s origins, that made the MoMA exhibition into a phenomenon—and cemented Arbus’s status as an enduring artist.

BBC: Fergal Keane: I've seen firsthand how growing up in war really affects a child bbc.com/news/article... @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography

Dusk, Lock 14, Grand Canal, Killeenbeg, Co Kildare

Ruins of Glendalough Mining Village, Glendalough, Co Wicklow

Glendalough, Co Wicklow, New Year’s Eve 2025

Rulx Thork began photographing in his local borough in 2005, after a stint living and hanging out in the East and West Villages. His new photobook revisits his archive, and preserves a slice of New York City life and history.

The works of Walker Evans amongst those that will enter the Public Domain in 2026 - Panel 21

Ulster fan during TMO check for James Ryan’s clean out; “won’t somebody think of the children!”

If the classical immigration photograph presents a subject as knowable and neatly contained, Xu insists on the opposite. His images are too layered and contradictory to resolve into a single, legible identity.

“Photography is the medium of snowmen’s dreams. What can better freeze a scene and ensure that spring’s ablation never comes?”

In her work, this language of patriarchal might – especially the political or religious kind – is shown as a repeating pattern that seems to coat everything, like the patterned carpets that the artist’s father used to cover the floor, walls and tables in his Warsaw home.

De Clérambault’s Morocco photographs may at first appear to be anthropological or ethnographic studies. Yet Afshar shows that what they really expose is the photographer himself – his compulsions, his gaze, his inability to see the women as anything more than surfaces for projection.

Final reminder that this incredible online seminar is on Monday! Join us to discuss all things related to consent and ethics in medical photography with Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Dr Arya Thampuran and Dr Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson78.bsky.social empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2025/11/07/o...

“When you’ve been taking photographs for 45, 50 years like me, you have got to embrace that sense of time passing, that it will come to an end, that my ability to take photographs will end,” he says. “It’s not a question of looking back, looking forward. …

Here, the camera played a critical role. In ways that could not be captured in written sources, photographs demonstrate women taking nationalist activities into their own hands: challenging policemen, drumming up support for boycotts, addressing crowds, directing salt production, and courting arrest

Like Frank, Anastasia Samoylova has an immigrant’s view of the United States, one conditioned by a life outside it.

I have always had admiration for Kirby Miller’s scholarship - it’s now at a new level for taking a principled and human stance on this issue

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California

Constance Jaeggi travelled across the US to document the Mexican tradition escaramuza, photographing participants and recording their stories. Escaramuza is a unique sport: part ballet, part cavalry moves and something all its own – a dazzling display of skilled horsewomanship, art and power.

Rooted in Somaliland, born in Oslo and shaped by international travel across Europe, Africa and America, Ayan Abdi’s work is a mosaic of photography and moving images that traces intergenerational African experiences across the continent and the diaspora.

Doolough Valley, Co Mayo

Capard, Rosenallis, Co Laois

“When women gather, we uplift one another, and we seek solutions. We soothe one another. Creativity is not reserved for the lucky few; it’s within us all. What we often need is the confidence to pursue it, and this is a driving force within IFP.”

Silver Strand, Thallabawn, Louisburgh, Co Mayo

It’s when Arbus photographs the rest of us, the ones the camera does not love, that she can do what very few photographers achieve and reveal a personal vision of life, albeit a grotesquely bleak one.

Recently published; a short review of Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography, ed. Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad in latest issue of Norwegian-American Studies; muse.jhu.edu/issue/55851

In 2023, Craig Easton was invited to stay at Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura in Scotland, where between 1946 and 1949 George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. Easton made a series of images with a large format camera, toning the prints in strong tea in homage to the author.

The next Ethics of Medical Photography Network seminar will be on Mon 8 Dec, 2 pm UK time, online and we'll discuss a very hot topic: consent! We couldn't have better speakers: @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and Dr Arya Thampuran. Book your place here: forms.gle/QUxL41SwixUH...

Mount Leinster, Co Carlow

Croagh Patrick, Co Mayo

Across the work of the thirteen artists in this exhibition – photography, painting, textiles, video and more brought together under an expanded understanding of collage – the questioning and augmenting of the historical canon and official archives is a running theme.

A higher ground…

We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist

Michael Cook (born 1968) was adopted at birth into a non-Indigenous family. While cut off from the connection to his biological and social Aboriginal heritage, he was fortunate enough to have an adoptive family who embraced his Aboriginality and empowered him to imagine what that might mean for him

Clew Bay, Co Mayo

In 1881, after working for many years with the European photographers Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried as a photographic colourist and assistant, the Japanese photographer Kusakabe Kimbei finally opened his own workshop in the Benten-dōri quarter of Yokohama.

Murrisk Augustinian Abbey, Co. Mayo

Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory

Mount Leinster, Co Carlow

He describes his camera as a compass, he continues, that “leads me to the people who I need to meet. My objective is to make sure that the history is preserved, to secure my legacy and, importantly, that of all the people who’ve stepped in front of my lens.”

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here: photooxford.org/events/const...

Unlike most photographers, the paranormal researcher did not always use a lens, preferring, instead, to have his subjects directly transmit their soul’s vibrations onto a chemical plate, which was sometimes placed against a person’s forehead to reduce latency.

Nine Stones, Mount Leinster, Co Carlow

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Many thanks @huckmagazine for the excellent feature pre the release of Vol 2 of SMALL TOWN INERTIA this October by @imageandreality 🙏✌️

Djouce Mountains, Co. Wicklow