Photography

One of Hollywood’s most striking visualists, Zack Snyder, hasn’t even been on Instagram for a month, yet his presence on the platform is already making waves (and ruffling feathers) online. The director, best known for films like 300 and Watchmen as well as DCEU tentpoles like Batman v Superman, only joined the social media outlet at the end of September. However, like his movies, his…

For our recent epic two-week road trip around America, I was keen to capture some great travel photos of all the iconic locations my family and I would be visiting from Vegas to LA and San Francisco. But as I was arriving in the US by airplane, I wanted to travel light. I mean very light. So this meant I only took one Canon camera, one Canon lens, and I certainly didn’t want to bring a big and…

Are you familiar with Jeff Wall? If not, let me enlighten you. For over 40 years, the Canadian photographic artist has been creating what’s known as ‘staged documentary’: meticulously constructed photographs that look like candid captures of everyday life, but are actually as choreographed as a West End show. His latest exhibition, Jeff Wall: Photographs, has just opened at Gallerie…

Right now, Berlin’s Gropius Bau is hosting the largest Diane Arbus exhibition ever held. Titled Diane Arbus: Konstellationen, it features 454 prints, many of them never displayed before, in a show that asks us to confront what it really means to look… and be looked at. From children and circus performers to suburban families and drag queens, Arbus’s portraits don’t just capture a…