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Curran Hatleberg’s humid, hallucinatory images of the deep south
The photographer’s new work gets under the skin of the American south, capturing alligators, urban decay and a man with a beard of bees
Sean O’Hagan
26, Jun, 2022 @10:00 AM

Vivian Maier: Anthology review – the attentive, intimate images behind the myth
The life story of the nanny who was a secret street photographer can overshadow her groundbreaking images – but at the first UK show of her work they take centre stage
Sean O’Hagan
19, Jun, 2022 @12:00 PM

‘Everywhere I looked, it was like a Fellini movie’ … the youth of Odesa, photographed before the invasion
Yelena Yemchuk spent five years capturing the city’s bohemian, irrepressible young at a time of protests and attacks. It turned into a powerful record of Ukraine’s agonising slide into war
Sean O’Hagan
04, May, 2022 @5:00 AM

‘It’s like one continuous song pours out of him’: meet the shaman-like artist-musician Lonnie Holley
The self-taught singer and sculptor from Alabama exists in a state of constant, spontaneous creativity. He talks about his roots and his new project with Artangel, inspired by Orford Ness
Sean O’Hagan
01, May, 2022 @12:00 PM

A new Scumb Manifesto: the woman who’s reworking the photography canon
Photographer Justine Kurland has sliced and collaged images from 150 renowned books by white male photographers from Brassaï to Stephen Shore. She explains why
Sean O’Hagan
23, Apr, 2022 @12:00 PM

Division at a distance: Paul Graham on picturing the Troubles
As his series of images of mid-80s Northern Ireland is republished, the photographer talks about being a stranger in a contested landscape and his elliptical approach to representing the conflict
Sean O’Hagan
17, Apr, 2022 @8:00 AM

A community out of time: Larry Towell’s images of Mennonite families
The Magnum photographer visited followers of the Christian sect in Canada and Mexico in the 90s, capturing the encroachment of modernity
Sean O’Hagan
09, Apr, 2022 @4:00 PM

Deutsche Börse photography prize review – striking imagery of global belonging
From haunting images of a decaying Miami to the tumult of 70s Belfast, this show pits traditional and contemporary strategies against each other
Sean O’Hagan
24, Mar, 2022 @6:28 PM

‘My subjects feel special – most of the time’: Judith Joy Ross on her sensual portraits
Hailed by some as the world’s greatest living portrait photographer, the American artist forges connections with people you might not normally notice
Sean O’Hagan
22, Mar, 2022 @8:00 AM

Patrick Radden Keefe on exposing the Sackler family’s links to the opioid crisis
The journalist tracked the billionaire arts philanthropists’ role in the OxyContin scandal in his gripping bestseller. He talks about why the bad guys are still getting away with it
Sean O’Hagan
27, Feb, 2022 @10:00 AM

On Bloody Sunday by Julieann Campbell review – first-hand stories of a shameful day
This oral history, using the testimony of survivors, relatives and witnesses, is meticulous and moving in telling the story of the massacre in Derry 50 years ago
Sean O’Hagan
30, Jan, 2022 @9:00 AM

‘He was searching for beauty’: Roy DeCarava’s widow remembers a master photographer
He captured poets, jazz giants and everyday black America. As a new exhibition of the great Harlem-born photographer’s work opens, his widow Sherry Turner DeCarava remembers his craft
Sean O’Hagan
24, Jan, 2022 @5:25 PM
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