Photography

It’s April 2024, and multi-award-winning wildlife photographer David Lloyd is leading a photography safari in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India, when his group encounters a herd of Asian elephants. The herd instinctively gathers together to form a protective barrier around the two vulnerable calves, while Lloyd’s instinct is to raise his camera and capture the innate behavior of these…

Most photographers spend their lives protecting film from light. Lotus L. Kang does the opposite. In her installation, shown above, long sheets of photographic film hang unfixed from steel beams. As light and humidity reach them, they slowly change color, and develop “bruises, blood and bile-like hues”. It’s one of four projects shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation…

In 1983, a line of Aboriginal men in traditional body paint and grass skirts walk across a patch of wasteland in Lower Manhattan, carrying spears. Behind them, one of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center soared into the sky. It’s very much a Harvey Wang picture. For decades, Wang has been photographing people from every walk of American life. Musicians. Punks. Shopkeepers. Complete…

Close your eyes and conjure up a mental image a 1930s film star. You’ll end up picturing the work of George Hurrell… whether you know his name or not. Hurrell rose to fame as the in-house portraitist at MGM before setting up his own studio. And his pictures did more than anyone’s to define the look of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Now the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in…