Paul Conroy knew the importance of bearing witness
The war photographer has died aged 61
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How we became obsessed with the human face
Fay Bound-Alberti’s book argues faces have come to matter too much
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Photo books of the year 2025
The best photography books published in the past 12 months – selected by the New Statesman’s creative editor
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Photo essay: George Orwell’s late sanctuary
Craig Easton’s An Extremely Un-get-atable Place depicts the remote Scottish house where Orwell spent much of his final years
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Goodbye Martin Parr
Serious photographs, disguised as entertainment
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I search for myself in the fashions and faces of Eighties photography
The pictures make me smile. The people in them seem real and alive.
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Wolfgang Tillmans: “Art doesn’t have a purpose”
The photographer on the decline of the London art scene post-Brexit, coming out at 16, and political responsibility.
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The striking works of the Prix Pictet shortlist
From Siân Davey to Gauri Gill, the photographers competing for the prestigious award are deeply impressive.
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Band on the rise: Paul McCartney’s candid Sixties photographs
The National Portrait Gallery exhibition of “forgotten” pictures will be revelatory for Beatles obsessives.
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Our parents were right: we can no longer trust what we see on the internet
I’d been lied to, by the very thing I hold in my hand for the majority of my day. How…
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The myth of America’s love affair with guns
In Bloodbath Nation Paul Auster says fixing the firearms crisis requires deep cultural change. What it really needs is political…
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Nan Goldin’s politics of sex
The film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed shows how, from the Aids crisis onwards, the photographer merged steely activism…
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Picture books of the year
Love, the glory days of music portraits, and 1970s stock car racing: the best photography publications of 2022.
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Caroline Herschel’s celestial discoveries
Photographs of 560 “missing” stars shine a light on the pioneering Georgian astronomer who identified them.
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“Picturing the Invisible”: Ten years on from the Fukushima disaster
A new exhibition provides a photographic portrait of communities living with radiation and trauma a decade after the Japanese earthquake,…
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Farewell to Tom Stoddart, a photography master
His career spanned four decades and was much admired and respected for its humanity, depth and perspective.
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How Georges Simenon found his eye
In the 1930s, the creator of Maigret travelled the world as a journalist. His photographs reveal an artistic sensibility captivated…
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The photo that shaped me: Jason Okundaye on his childhood home
My council flat became a source of shame – but the boy in this photograph knows nothing of that feeling.
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The photo that shaped me: Olivia Laing on Annie Leibovitz’s “The Girls”
I’ve had a copy of this photo of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon on my desk for years. When I…
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The photo that shaped me: Kevin Barry on Elvis’s packed lunch
Your eyes do not deceive: Elvis Presley buys lunch from a platform vendor.
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